New-York tribune., 1921-07-31
Cry, Echoed by
Craggs, Brought
Mrs. Stone Aid
Weakened Woman's Despair
ing Call From Ledge on
Mountainside Guild d
Baffled Rcscuers to Her
Death as Success Neared
Purdue President Killed as
He Approached Summit
of Unconquercd Peak

SPRAY FALLS, Alberta, July 80. -
Mrs. w. r. Stone, resting in an i'm
provised camp on Mount Eanon, de-
scribcd to-day how the shrill sound Of
her voice, caught up by the multitude
of peaks and crags and reachoing saved
her life after her husband, president
of Purdue University, Of Lafayette,
Ind, had perished in climbing the
mountain and after she had laid eight
days on perious ledge.
searching party had figured out
the probable course that DR.. and Mrs.
Stone would take in the attempt to
ascend Mount Eanon.
From point Of vantage the search
ers had secured every side with their
glasses without a sight of anything.
Then. as they decided to go on, one
member of the party thought he heard
the cry of woman from afar. Listen
ing lntently the searchers heard it
again. more minute inspection with
their glasses revealed far below and
across the canyon the form of a woman.
One hour later Mrs. Stone was rescued.
AT different periods she had raised
her voice with all the vigor she had,
expecting that some time it might be
heard and she would be rescued.
DR.. Stone was within five minutes'
climb of the top of the hitherto un-
scaled mountain-the goal which he
and his wife had set when his own
death occurred.
The accident happened on July 16.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stone expected to make
the climb, rest at the top and then get
back to the food cache that night.
DR.. Stone was climbing above, hope
fully, cheerfully and unhesitatingly
when, without a word of warning or
even cry of alarm, he plunged over
her head to the abyss below.
He fell fully 5000 feet in the opinion
of his wife. She saw the body strike
a rock, bound from it from cliff to
cliff and on down the side Of the noun
tain. She began a hasty descent down
the cliff in an effort to get to her hus-
band. She fought her way down the
side of the mountain and when found
was 5000 feet below the point where
DR.. Stone had fallen.
How Mrs. Stone became marooned
on a ledge of rock she does not know
herself. She could proceed neither
way In that position she spent eight
days. She had no food, but during the
middle of every day, when the sun was
high tiny stream of melted snow
came trickling down, close enough that
she could refresh herself. She never
gave up the fight. Every day she
this spirit that she eventually was
discovered.
DR.. Stone seemed to have had a pre-
sentiment that the venture might end
in disaster. When he and Mrs. Stone
departed from camp on Mount Assini-
boin, the Matterhorn of the Canadian
Rockies, on July Is, they left word
that if they did not return in three
days a search party should be sent
out.
CALGARY, Alb, July 3o.-Another
searching party of Swiss guides
was being organized to-day to recover
the body of DR.. E. w. Stone. This in
by The Calgary Herald from it's
correspondent, who now is at Trail
Center Camp with the rescue party re-
turning to Banff with DR.. Stones
widow.
Mrs. Stone to-day was resting COM
fortably in camp, after having been
carried on rough stretcher for miles
over a narrow mountain trail. She
was recuperating rapidly and was ex
pected to show no permanent i'll effects
from her trying experiences.
1t probably will be a week or ten
days, however, before she is able to
resume her journey, for she will have
to ride thirtyfive miles on horseback
to Banff.