Two men buried in a snow slide, was the awful word brought into town yesterday (Thursday) afternoon about 2o'clock by Charlie Norman.
The men are Andrew Hokanson and Luther Baldwin, the slide took place near the Rainbow mine, a small prospect in the hills southeast of town about six miles. There were four men working at the mine, the two who are buried and Andrew M. Nielson, and Charlie Norman.
About 11 o'clock Norman was working in the mine tunuel and Nielson had just been in a few minutes, when they heard a terrific roar, which at first they imagined to be the powder on fire, but on emerging from the tunnel they saw that the hillside was bare and the snow piled up in the gutch and their companions not in site. Nielson said that he had seen the two men on the hillside as he had entered the tunnel, and he supposed that they were going for wood, when the slide engulfed them.
The survivors succeeded in locating the cabin which was buried under 5 feet of snow, but after punching around in the snow for half an hour, Norman started for town to tell the news and get help.
A gang of men started immediately, with snow shoes and shovels and every hour has seem men going from Afton and Smoot, and every part of the valley to assist.
The slide is over a mile long, and the hillside was about 500 ft. hight so there is a lot of snow to contend with. The place where it was supposed that they would be found judging from the location when they were last seen, and the distance traveled in the short time that clasped before the slide came, has been shoveled over and not a trace of them has been found. The Location of the mine was not considered dangerous as there has never been a slide there before.
As each hour passes and no news comes in the hope of discovery of them alive wanes, until now the men are digging frantically in the hope of finding the bodies, to give them burial now, rather than wait till the snow melts.
Later: Both bodies recovered Friday at 4 p.m. Both dead

Baldwin, Luther (1) (8 Mar 1912) Star Valley Independent