Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-02
ne SAW DEAD BODY IN DREAM
WOODMEN FOUND CoRPSES OF
MISSING MEN.
F. w. Kloeber Of Washington Left
Stricken Companion to Fall
Himself Over Cliff.

Mrs NJ. E. Kloeber of this city, in an
| interview with Star reporter, relates
remarkable circumstances attending the
deaths of her son. Fred w. Kloeber and
his companion. Julius Kumle near Green
River Hot Springs. Washington, and the
finding of their bodies after several days
search
The body of Kumle was found October
% Death was due apparently to heart
trouble. The body of kloeber was found
next day. He had fallen over a cliff while
on his way home to summon assistance
for Kumle
kumles body was located by an expert
woodsman. He went to the exact spot,
after having seen the place in a dream
The story of the search by the greatest
party of woodsmen and hunters ever
gathered in the state of Washington. as
CLEANED from clippings and kilograms re-
ce1ved by Mrs. kloeber. is as follows:
On Wednesday. October 81 the neigh
borhood of Hot Springs. Wash. was
alarmed because the two men had not
been heard of since going into the woods
on Rooster Comb mountain back of the
kloeber, hotel. Monday. The men took
no lunch with them. and were not dressed
to stay out all night.
Preparations for a search were made
Wednesday morning. A large party start
ed out to scour the woods. A trail. partly
covered by light fall Of snow, was picked
up About five miles up the mountain the
searchers lost sight of the trail Alto
gether. The quest for that day was
abandoned.
The news spread throughout the country
rapidly. Woodsmen came flocking into
Hot Springs ready and willing to take
the trail and stick to it until the two men
were found.
They were both well known and well
ill.,
kloeber. worked incesantIy and offered
500 reward for the finding of his brother,
dead or alive.
In one direction a party of seasoned, ex-
perienced woodsmen worked for two days.
spread out 100 feet apart guided by COM
passes in the hands of every third man.
These men. who have learned the signifi-
canoe of broken twigs or turned leaves
followed out every insignificant clue to a
disappointing end.
Other parties working in other direc-
tons for two days met as little success
Two men found the remains of a grouse
that had been killed and eaten raw, but
could not tell whether a man or a hawk
had dined on it. The clue was followed
however, with no success.
Meantime hundred new hunters were
added to the searching party. The woods
in the mountains were searched SO thor
oughly that hardly foot of ground for
miles was missed.
On the morning of October % Adolph
Linberg and Jan Lund, both in the en-
ploy of Mr.. Kloeber. found the body OF
Kumle.
Linberg joined the searchers October
"a. declaring he could positively find the
men, as he had seen one of them in a
dream He described the place and the
position in which Kumle was to be found,
with hands folded
According to the reports his vision
turned out to be the means of finding both
men. He and Lund struck into the woods
and had no difficulty in finding Kumle.
about four miles from the hotel from
which the unfortunate men started.
The circumstances connected with the
position of Kumle's body established be-
yond a doubt that he died Monday after
noon, October 10. and not from exposure.
but suddenly stricken down by some ply
steal lesion.
1t is probable the two men were to-
gether when Kumle fell, and that kloe-
Der laid him out, placed his head on
pillow of green boughs, folded his hands
and then started for home to bring as
sistance.
There is a canyon between the spot
where Kumle died and the hotel. Long,
running moss covers the ground. In
Fastening forward, 1t is believed, Kloeber
caught his foot in a runner Of the moss
and pitched headlong from the brink of
the canyon.
His body was found there by the search
ers the next day. mile and a half nearer
face with neck and jaw broken.