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Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, January 24, 1913, Page 13: Mail Driver Is Killed In Snow slide. Owen Curtis Loses His Life In Jackson Hole Region, Wyoming. St. Anthony, Ida. Jan. 24,---With a take of death and intense suffering, State Game Warden D. F. Hudson of Wyoming arrived here today from Jackson's Hole, Wyo. He was caught in a snow slide coming through Canyon pass on a mail wagon. Owen Curtis, the youthful driver, and a horse were killed. The accident occurred in exactly the same spot where the predecessor lost his life in a similar slide last year.

Warden Hudson said that they were caught in an avalanche of snow and ice that swept vehicle and all off the road and down the mountain side into a creek. Hudson was buried beneath the slide but managed to dig his way to the surface and then started digging for Curtis.

At last he uncovered the boy's feet but his head was submerged in the creek, and he had drowned before Hudson could drag him out. The body of the mail carrier killed last winder want not found until July. Hudson was bruised in the snow slide and suffered intensely from the cold before he reached assistance. All wires are down into the Jackson's Hole country. After being cut off for a week, train service was resumed late yesterday.

Birth	6 Apr 1887	Utah
Marriage	25 Dec 1907	Logan, Cache Co., Utah - Mary Diantha Thompson
Residence	1908	Age: 21
Death	18 Jan 1913	Fremont Co., Idaho
Burial		Victor Cemetery, Victor, Teton Co., Idaho

Spouse	Mary Diantha Thompson (1888 - 1977)
Child	Lola Mary Curtis (1908 - 1967)
Child	Marie Curtis (1911 - 1983)
Child	Clarence Owen Curtis (1913 - 1983)