The Nome nugget., 1921-12-17
TRANSFER HAS MARROW
 ESCAPE FROM DEATH
 IN BLIZZARD

l o>cA SS >"nAA' d tCahhotOi CLuPiOy
 ed by W. J. Rowe in the removal of
 the Bangor Creek dredge to Little
 Creek. narrowly escaped serious i'm l jury and possible death through
 being lost with his team in the fierce
 blizzard which ragged over this sec l tion of the peninsula in almost un-
 paralleled fury Tuesday night and Wednesday. Cahill's lucky star
 was in the ascendant, however. and
 although in the hospital suffering | with sundry frost bites on toes and fingers, he is little the worse from his bitter experience in the clutch
 Of the storm king.
 Cahill and his employer, each driving four horse team, left Ban gor Creek early Wednesday. enroute to Anvil Creek with heavy dredge
 loads of dredge parts. The wealth CT was fair at the time of their de- parture, but on arriving near Anvil Creek late in the afternoon they encountered the blizzard, which
 swept down suddenly from the Northeast-und the impulse of
 wind which during the late evening
 attained velocity of nearly fifty
 miles per hour. Wishing to reach the barns at Little Creek before
 night fall, MT. Rowe decided to leave
 the loads near Anvil and hurry to
 shelter. The teams were unhitch-
 ed and. with Rowe in the lead,
 started for Little Creek After proceeding but short distance Mir.
 Rowe lost sight of his companion
 in the dusk and storm. but. sup
 posing him to be close behind. con- tinued on to Little Creek. Before
 leaving Anvil he had seen Cahill
 blanket the horses and also place a blanket around his shoulders and was in no degree apprehensive as to their safe arrival. AS time passed. however. the storm grew worse and Cahill not having appeared, Dick ListOn started out in search but could find no trace of the missing team and driver. By this time the blizzard was raging fercely and further search was out of the ques- tion. Early the following morn- ing MT. Rowe started out with a dog team. Jack Mitchell of the Coast Guard. Jack Warwick. Fred Mebes. Victor Anderson, Dick Lis son. Peter Berg. c. Gustafson, Mike
 Walsh and a number of Pioneer Min ing Company employees also engag-
 ed in the search, which continued
 throughout Wednesday without sue cess.
 team thoroughly searched the region
 between Anvil and Bangor Greeks;
 Berg and Gustafson covered the
 country from Snake River and along
 Anvil to Bangor. Mitchell and
 Warwick devoted their search to the
 region south west of Little Creek
 and along the lower reaches of Snake River to the westward. On returning to town after covering large section of country Wednesday, Mitchell and Warwick reported
 what they thought were the tracks of horses and man near a large willow covered area near the big bend in Snake River. about 21a miles west of town. They were unable to follow them. however, as the wind again sprang up and made fur ther search impossible. Nothing further was learned of the missing team and driver until Thursday morning. when Messrs. Anderson and Lisson, starting from Little
 Creek. picked up the tracks of the
 long missing team and driver at No below on Little and followed them to the cabin of Otto Halla. situated between Little and Center Creeks l about 2h miles south of the Little Creek roadhouse. On arriving at the cabin Cahill and three horses were found and the search was over.