The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-07
WABASH R.R.
PRESIDENT LOST
T. a. DeIano With Daughter and An
other Man and Daughter Lost
Thirty Hours in Michi.
gan Woods.
MISS DELANo HAD TIME
Young Woman Nearly Frozen and In
Getting Too Near Camp Fire Was
Injured by Blaze, Last Match
Made.

President F. A. Delano OF the wa.
bash railroad is not an utter strang.
er IN keokuk, and what's more his
pretty daughter has been a Keokuk
visitor on more than one occasion
Wnen papa happened to be here
on business. Sundays Chicago Exam.
iner contained quite an article OF how
the railroad president, his daughter
another gentleman friend and that
friends daughter got lost in the Mich.
lgan woods last Saturday and had
some exciting and narrow eseanes
Following is the Examiners story Of
the quartette's escapade which viii
be OF much interest to President Ne.
lano's Keokuk railroad friends and
others:
Word of the thrilling experience of
9 railroad president and prominent
chicago attorney, with their daugh-
ters. being lost in the woods OF Norm.
ern Michigan, was received in chica.
go yesterday. The principals in the
drama were F. A. Delano. president
OF the Wabash railroad, his daughter
Catherine, and Frank H Scott and
daughter.
While the hunt for the lost four
was carried on through the rainr
night, Mrs. Deiano and her Other
three daughters were anxionslv await.
Ing word at the Delano summer home
TO which the family went Julv The
party was lost for more tha- th,rv
hours in the wilderness near the Hur.
on Mountain Hunting g7d Fishing
Club.
Start on NiueHll. Trara.
President Delaao and Attorney
Scott, with their daughters. zho re-
Gently made their 6sSz. IN so-fstv
week ago yesterday decided 10 walk
to Cliff Lake. nine miles hack from
Lake Superior and the Huron Noun
tain ci1h- Thsy started shortly al
LEI breakfast : somewhat strenuous
tramp through he wiids. The men eY-
e 2H-s 1,a1i-5 their coats. deciding
70 y * 11s7c1a5e-e6 IS possible.
Miss Sc0rt and Miss Delano wore
z'E7iIlng cTsr their shirtwaists. The
party toak 2 Hghr lunch, expecting to 6
fa oack n he resort in time for sup s
pr t
5ut there is no kings highway to s
Cliff Lake. There is only bIazed S
trail, which leads through dense b
ests of pine and hardwood and skirts
impossible swamps. Mr. Delano c
knows much of railroading and Mr.. y
Scott much of law, but as woodsmen Y
they failed. 6
After following the trail for few /
miles they became hopelessly lost.
and there is no wilder country in the 9
middle west than right back of the c
huron Mountain Club. The party had e
neglected to take a compass. The sky S
became cloudy. and there was no /
way for the members to get thei, f
bearings. Z
Call in Vain for Aid.
With growing fear they plunged on !
but found that they were wandering
aimlessly. They had few scraps of
lunch left, which they carefully hus-
banded. They yelled until they were
hoarse, but the forest gave back only
hooking echoes. z
To make their plight worse rain
started at shutdown, and soon it was
coming down in torrents. The night
was exceedingly cool, as is usual at
this season in the Lake Superior
country, and the girls in their shirt. g
waists and their coatless fathers q
drenched to the skin, suffered intense. !
ly Mr.. Scott and Mr.. Delano giving g
up hope of fighting their way out. t
sought valley, and there attempted 4
to light fire. The forest wood was t
wet and the matches damp. One bv
one the matches flickered out, with. /
out kindling fire in the rain, until
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