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From the February 27, 1878 edition of the Denver Daily Tribune: DEATH IN A SNOW SLIDE. Further Particulars in the Fate of J.L. Briggs, of Silverton. The Tribune, of the twenty- fourth, published a brief account of the accident death of J.L. Biggs of Silverton, who was caught in a snow slide on Hazelton Mountain. The La Plata Miner issues an “extra” giving further particulars of the catastrophe…