The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-01-01

NARROWLY ESCAPE
Three Young Men Blizzard
Bound On Top of Mt.
Washington
MADE VALLEY
CABIN FRIDAY
Nearly Exhausted by Hunger and Fa-
tigue - Narrowly Escaped Sliding
Over High Presipiee - Resting In
Cabin Before Return to Boston.

Over High Presipiee Resting In
| Cabin Before Return to Boston
| FABYAN, n. II, Jan. Half starved
nearly frozen and with one of their num-
Der completely exhausted and at inter
walls delrious, the three Harvard students
who for the past three days have been
trapped by the elements in the bleak
and icy businesses of Mt. Washington, stag
gered to safety at the Base station of the
cog-wheel railway at o'clock last night
| The story of their battle with 90-mile
gale in zero weather, completely envel-
oped in binding blizzard, without food
and part Of the time without shelter,
reads like a page from the "reminiscences
Of an Arctic explorer, and the three stu
dents, recuperating in the warm cabin of
| lack Coreau, at the foot of the mountain,
! declare that their deliveranCe is nothing
short of a miracle
| L. F. Cook, Harvard sophomore,
| whose home is in Duluth: Max T. Gold
berg. a Harvard junior. of Chicago, and
| Benjamin J. Seheinman, second-year stu
dent in the Harvard Law school, who
| lives in Detroit, are the three young men
who so narrowly escaped death from
| cold and starvation.
| When they started on their trip they
were accompanied by a fourth Harvard
man, Lucien G. Strauss, a junior, whose
! home Is in Cincinnati, but who was I'M
! able 10 start up the mountain because of
an injury to his leg.
! The party Wednesday morning left the
! hotel at Fabyan and started for the foot
| Of the mountain. Three of the party
| were eXuberant Strauss, the fourth, was
not in such high spirits. He was slightly
lame, and before the Base station of the
mountain railway was reached he had
further injured his leg SO that it was con-
| sidered inadvisable for him to attempt
| the climb. As it was the plan to try to
reach the top and come down again the
| same day, it was decided that Strauss
| should wait for them at COreaus cabin
Because they had planned such Il fast
trip they travelled light. Each man car
rIed four cakes of chocolate, but except
Tor their light but warm clothing, that
was all.
They climbed rapidly until they reached
what they described as a plateau some
where near the top of the mountain. As
! they neared the summit they ran into a
! heavy blizzard The temperature
dropped rapidly, and, hall blinded by the
snow and their vitality s:apPed by the
bitter cold. they became frightened.
| But they stumbled on, and in their
wanderings they were fortunate enough
to run into the Summit house. They
broke in the door and all collapsed and
| fell TO the floor. The last part of their
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| that they declared reached a velocity of
from 81 10 100 miles an hour. Not only
did it impede their progress, but it took
their breath and nearly paralyzed them.
After a short rest on the floor Of the
| Summit house they regained their feet
and barricaded the door against the wind
! Then they set about to hunt for pr0vls-
ions. as they had eaten their cakes OF
chocolate. They found no food, but they
did find some coal in the cellar, and with
. Z hill f., h-,- I'D
uesday night at the Summit house.
1 On Thursday morning the storm had
not abated and they decided that it
would be folly to venture into such a
blizzard, as none OF the trio was familiar
/ with the topography of the mountain.
They were weak from hunger, but they
hung on.
friday morning the storm had abated
somewhat, but the mountain was enyel
opcd in a fog SO dense that 1t was inn
possible to see any object more than 20
feet away. They were afraid to start out,
but they were becoming so weak that
the, dared not remain any longer. Ac-
coldngly they decided to fare forth and
so they left the Summit house.
They were fortunate enough TO strike
what is known as the AmmonOOsuc trail,
and this they followed until they came
to a raviue. BY this time Cook had be-
gun to play out and to lose his faculties
. at intervals. But his companions urged
him on
Then came what was perhaps their
closest approach to death in the whole
! trip. They slid down the ravine on the
snow. As they came TO a stop they
found themselves gazing into the sIcken-
ing depths OF a tremendous chaSm. They
had stopped within a few feet Of the edge
OF the precipicc. Ten feet farther and
thy would have been hurled into what
e appeared TO be a bottomleSs abyss.
? 1t was then 3 O'Clock and darkness was
I - 70 fIp fnqp am
trembling lest they make misstep and be
dashed to death in the gulf that yawned
beside them, they crept along the edge
I of the cliff until they reached a point
where they could stand up. They were
> SO chilled and frightened that they de
5 cided to build fire and get warm. They
ignited some sticks, which cracked foI
4 a moment and then went out. But the
three wanderers were so exhausted that
they did not have the energy TO rekindle
the blaze.
=, At this point Scheinman sought to pull
his companions together and remarked:
! Come on, fellows! Rather than die
here like dogs, let's keep going,
. BY 40 it was completely dark, but
again fortune favored the trio, for. they
struck a river trail and began to follow
. it. Cook was now almost completely eX
hausted, and Goldberg and Scheinmar
We're forced to urge him on and support
c him over the hardest places.
They saw a trestle over their heads. II
was where the cog-wneel railway runs
y over the river bed they were following
t was then, and not until then. that they
: had any idea where they We're: Much en-
!. conraged, their. spirits revived, and des
pcrateiy they struggled M to the tracks
! and then kept going until they, staggered
d into Coreau's cabin at o'clock.
e Jack Coreau prepared hot meal fo1
II them, the first food they had eaten IN d
n hours, and they were put to bed. The!
g will rest at Coreau's cabin for a couple
81 of days and then return to Boston.
t SHOOTER HELD UNDER BOND.
= Harold Lewis Of Northampton Fire.