Arizona republican., 1921-07-30
WIFE EXPLAINS HOW
 PURDUE PRESIDENT LOST LIFE IN FALL
Republican A. P. Leased wIrel

CALGARY, Alta, July 29.-Search is being continued for the body of pr. w. E. Stone, president of Purdue university. Indiana, killed in plunge down the side of Mount Eanon, in the Canadian Rockies, according to the correspondent of the Calgary Herald who sent story yesterday to Banff. mountain re- sort, by peny express.
 Meanwhile, Mrs. Stone is in an improvised camp in the mountains while the party that rescued her is building a raft to convey her down the Marvel lakes, the first stage of 55-mile journey back to civilization. Mrs. Stone, although suffering from shock and exhaustion as the result of her eight days imprisonment on a Mount Eanon ledge. is out of danger and able to tell something of her ex- perience-
 Mrs. Stone said that on July 16 she and her husband were climbing particularly difficult bit of almost perpendicular cliff when Dr. Stone, little in advance, apparently stepped on a loose rock or a handful of the cliff broke away. and his body hurried past her into the abyss be- | low.
 Without stopping to count the cost and without realizing the impossibil- | ity of saving her husbands life, Mrs. | Stone prepared to go to the rescue, the correspondent of the Herald said. Fastening rope to the mountainside she climbed down rapidly. When she reached the end of the rope she found no foothold and dangled against the cliff, thousands of feet above the l foot of the cliff.
 | For a time she clung there, then. | 1I4 af-1 | [ I,1 and finding nothing else to aid her, she released her grip. Fate inter vened for ten feet below the end of the rope a ledge, less than four feet i wide, broke her fall. Here, without food and water, she remained until her rescue.
 I Mrs. Stone faces an arduous jour ney to Banff. for the trail is over mountainS and is beset with many difficulties She will be carried in a stretcher except for the short span of the Marvel lakes. Dr. J. A. Bell, I of Winnipeg, a member of the rescue party, is attending Mrs. Stone.
 It is possible that the search for l Dr. Stones body will be abandoned l temporarily until a new search party can be organized.
 l During the time Mrs. Stone lay on | the ledge clouds often surrounded the mountain tops and frequently wind and storms. accompanied by light ming and thunder, broke about her. Il Long before help arrived she had about des. aired of ever being res I cued, but her remarkable stamina I carried her through.
 On Friday night, by a forced
 march. the first section of the rescue
 party arrived at Mount Enon. It consisted of Hammer, the guide; Will | liam Childs and William Peyto, both of Banff, and a party of Canadian Royal mounted police. The search was immediately started. and on Sunday morning, after riding hard
 from Banff all through the night. General Mitchell, head of the Alpine
 Club of Canada, and pr. Bell joined the rescuers. Last Sunday evening Hammer found Mrs Stone Letting
 himself down to the ledge with a rope. he fastened it about her body, a difficult task, for she was badly
 bruised. Drawing her up to where a
 foothold could be gained, he per
 formed what General Mitchell de-
 scribed as a wonderful feat, for he
 carried the unconscious woman down
 the side of the mountain in his arms. Il Although Mrs. Stone is now recov-
 ering and the worst of her experi-
 tHces are oveTs the JOurHey Ddck stiil lies before her. The trail to Banff is 55 miles on pack horses, beset with
 many difficulties She must be car- ried on a stretcher every foot of the
 way with the exception Of the short | span of the Marvel lakes.
 Before reaching the lakes the party
 must pass over fallen trees, heavy
 brush, rocks. gulleys and foamins
 water courses for eight miles. On the
 other side of the lakes the trail runs
 up and down mountains. In places
 1t is so narrow that it is extremely
 dangerous for a mounted man to
 travel
 The party may be delayed through
 the failing of Mrs. Stones strength
 Tn that case members of the rescue
 party said she would be rested. at one
 of the rough camps along the trail