The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-09-29
ARMY OFFICERS
AND SOLDIERS
BANTER DEATH
They Rescue Enlisted Man From
PeriIous Situation After
Fall Over Cliff
LARIATS ARE USED
FOR HEROIC succoR
Lieutensnts Flint and Cook Fig
ure in Sensational Aerial
Feat Of Courage
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With the life or death of a man
hanging in balance, thrilling drama
was enacted without spectators last
Thursday in the waianae mountains
I back Of Seho6eld Barracks. {
Lieut.. Harry A. Flint of the Fourth
Cavalry, dangling at the end Of a life
line Of lariats looped together, descend
ed sheer l50.foot cliff, aud hanging
there inst out Of reach OF Ptivate John
d. Schoenberg, Troop II, Fourth Cav
airy, who was lying in a pocket in the
cliff, encouraged the almost delirious
man, and persuaded him not TO end his
sufferings by casting himself over the
narrow ledge for d plunge of thou
sand feet below.
Whils Lieut.. Seth w. Cook Of the
Fourth, Cavalry descended the steep
aud dangerous mountainside for uldi
tional lariats TO lengthsn the lifeline,
another soldier, reported to be Pri-
waite ,Pelhand Of Troop il, Fourth Cav
airy, remained astride a rocky peak,
from which the line and the officer de.
pended, and maintained his dangerous
position, expecting motnentarily TO be
carried away bv the sliding and shift,
ing masses Of loose soil and rock.
Lieutenant Flint Dares Death
When Lieutenant Cook struggled
back up the ascent with the additional
ropes, they were added to the lifeline,
and Lieutenant Flint was lowered into
the rocky pocket where Private Sehoen,
berg lay. The soldier was badly IN.
iured, with his collarbohe and several
ribs broken by the fall. Carefully ad,
justing sling, Lieutenant Flint fast
ened Il to the wounded man, and thep
signaled TO those ahpve, and with the
assistance, of Lieutenant Cook, Private
Pelhand hauled the helpless man up 70
safety. ,ssa (
lieutenant Flint remained in the
pocket until the line was lowered ID
climbed into the ding and was him
self hauled up BY the two men above
On account of the loose character OF
the soil on these monntainsides, tho de
scent into the valley carrying thu
wounded man was exceedingly danger
Gus and difficult. 1t was successfully
accomplished, however, and = p-t- =
Sehoenberg was taken. into, =. WI 70 Il Ia
and sent, 1ee'-motor ambulance frou
Sehofeld Barracks was waiting ut Ha
leiwa 70 convey the injured man I,
the hospital at that post, notification
having been sent by telephone from
Waianae.
Schoenberg Slides over Cliff
Lieutenants Cook and Flint were OF
a camping triptin Makua Guleh the da,
OF the accident. Private Schoenberg
wth'a comrade, Private Lang, both o
Troop II, were also on a hunting trip
While trying 20 recover the carcasse
OF some goats which they had shot
Schoeuberg slid over the ridge and in
to the pocket below. Lang was nnabl
to get 70 him, but started back dow
the trail until he met the two officer
and gave the alarm. They were ioiue,
by three other soldiers, and seeurinl
all the available lariats the, party bt
gan the climb to the scene of the aeci
dent. SO difficult was this climb TIM
only three Of the party reached tn
Peak from which the rescue was cor
Quoted. ...r ..a,, II <. EE W. 90 .2ttn
When Lieutenant Flint was FIRST low
be- cred and the lifeline proved too short
he was near enough 70 talk to Sehoeu
berg, who was in great misery, and VIII
said that despairing of rescue he ha
intended to roll OF the ledge and cas-
himself down the mountain side to en-
his sufforings, While waiting for th
ltngthened rope to be lowered, Liet
tenant Flint cast q rock down the pree
nice. and SAYS II must have been q
least 1000 feet to the bottom.
Lieutenant Flint Modest
Although this happened last Thurs
day the story only came out yesterday
4 Hieutenant Flint, who effected the rel
tue, modestlv gives all the credit !
A Private Pelhand. He says that onl
for the courage and skin displayed b
this soldier in maintaining his positio
II would have been impossible TO a,
seend into the pocket where schoenber
lay. *.