The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-08-05
Mrs. w. e. Stone Describes
Her PeriIous Trip
NARROWED ON ROCKS
Saw Husband Fall To His
Death; Fought Way To
.. His Aid
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

Spray Falls. Alta, July 30-Mrs.
w. e. Stone resting in an improvised
camp on Mount canon described to-
day how the shrill sound of her
| voice, caught up by the multitude of
peaks and crags and re- echoing
saved her life after her husband.
President of Purdue University, of
La Fayette, Ind, had persisted in
climbing the mountain and after she
had lain eight days on a periIous
ledge. A searching party had fig
ured out the probable course that
DR. and Mrs. Stone would take in
the attempt to ascend Mount canon.
From point of vantage the
searchers 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 a wo-
man from afar. Listening intently
more minute. inspection with their
glasses revealed far below and
across the canyon the form of
woman. One hour later Mrs. Stone
was rescued.
Called Out Many Times
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
DIR. 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 hap
pen>d on July 16. Mr.. and Mrs.
Stone expected to make the climb,
rest at the top, and then get hack to
the food cache that night.
DIR. Stone was climbing above.
hopefully, cheerfully and unhesita.
tingly when without a word of warn
Ing, farewell of any kind. net even
a sign, 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 1t from cliff to cliff and on
down the side of the mountain. She
began hasty descent down the
GIN 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 DIR. Stone had fallen.
Never Gave Up The Fight
HOW Mrs. Stone became marooned
on ledge of rock she does not know
Hoiseu. que cOulQ 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 a tiny stream OF
melted snow came trickling down.
close enough that she could refresh
herself. She never gave up the fight
Every day she cried for help and II
was because of this spirit that she
eventually was discovered.
DR.. Stone seemed to have a pre-
sentiment that the venture might end
in disaster. When he and Mrs.
Stone departed from camp on Mount
Assiniboine, the Matterhorn of the
Canadian Rockies, on July Is, they left
word that if they did not return in
three days searching party should be
sent out. The mountain is almost in
accessible. Last year a Wakefield
party made an unsuccessful attempt
to scale it. They had reached an al
titude of 9,763 feet, when they came
TO stone wall which was impossible
to ascend. They had no time to make
another attempt, but suggested that an
ascent might be made from the south
east end of Mount Glory. With this
information DR.. and Mrs. Stone made
the effort which ended tragically.