The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-01-20
LOST AV|kT0R5
ARE RESCUED
FOUND EXHAUSTED
ACROSS THE BORDER
Had Nothing to Eat or Drink
for Days Men in Fair
Physical Shape.

WELLTON, Ariz., Jan. 19-Lieutan.a
ant Colonel Harry G. Bishop and Leu;
tenant w. A. Robertson. missing ayia,
tors, exhausted from walking four
days in the wilds Of Sonora, Mexico,
without food or water, were found
yesterday 80 miles south Of the bor-
der by a civilian searching party,
Lieutenant Robertson was brought
back here today by the searchers.
Lieutenant Colonel Bishop, too week
to walk, was left in charge Of four:
searchers in the Rosario mountains,
where he was found last night At 10:
TWO sandwiches and two oranges,
each was all the food the men had
tasted since they left the North Island
aviation base at San Diego. January
10 on their flight, Robertson told ths'
searchers.
The only water they had had was:
taken from the radiator Of the air
plane, Robertson said, and It was e1.,
hausted four days ago. =
Robertson was found yesterday and
was following the tracks Of the auto.
mobile Of the searching party. He was;
trailing the base of the Gila noun:
tains, 80 miles south Of the border. He
directed the searching party to the.
Rosario mountains, 80 miles farther
south, where he said he left Bishop
+ the day before Bishop had become ex-
hausted and was unable to walk.
Found Bishop Exhausted
Leaving Robertson In charge Of two
Of the searchers, other members OF
the party pressed southwark and
found Bishop lying on the ground IN
! a mountain pass. He was unable to,
talk and barely able to recognize the
/ searchers.
Robertson said the members Of the
searching party were the first hymana
he had seen since he landed. He was
unable to give definite Information as
TO the district wherein they landed,
but thought it was $50 miles or more,
south of the Arizona border. =
Members Of the party who TOOK
charge of Bishop are expected to ar
! rive here tomorrow. The searceers
said neither Of the men were dehriops
The propeller Of their airplane was
broken, Robertson said, when they
made a landing about 1880 p. m. on
Wednesday, January 10. Enough gas.
oline for 80 minutes flight renamed IN
the tank. =;
| Inc dVldIOTS ESudlucu Will IAC oh'
plane until 4:30 p. m. that afternoon.
and then abandoned it, starting across
! the desert toward the mountains, and
heading north They drained q e3tfDtl
oil can and filed 1t with water from
| the radiator of their airplane. This
| they carried with them =
| Alive and Well. "a.
| SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 19.-Colonel
W. A. Glassford, commander OF the
North Island Aviation school, late this
Afternoon, received personal mes
sage from Lieutenant w. A. Robert.
son, stating that both he and Lieut.
+ Colonel Harry G. Bishop, the other
missing army airman, are alive ana
we'll. Lieutenant Robertson's message
was sent from Wellton, Ariz.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-Dispstches
to the war department tonight an.
nounced that the missing army avta.
tors, Lieut. Colonel Harry G. Bishop
| and Lieutenant W. A. Robertson, Hero:
found safe and uninjured at 1890!
o'clock this afternoon at Well ton
/ Arizona.
The messages came from the army
stations at San Francisco and Ban
| Diego and gave no details 5ss
In view Of press dispatches saying
the men were discovered two hundred
miles south Of the American bordefs
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