Way Back!

70 Years Ago From the February 25,1955 edition of the Silverton Standard & the Miner: BUS HIT BY SLIDE. ‘THIS IS AS FAR AS WE GO.’

Silverton came in for national publicity this week when a snow slide south of town struck a northbound Continental Trail-ways bus, carrying the vehicle a hundred feet down the steep rock mountainside.

The accident, which occurred last Friday at the Champion slide, ha…