The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-30
SAvEDFROM
PERISHINC
BY SCREAMS
Wife of College President
Rescued by Her Cries
on Mt. Eanon.

Spray Falls, Alberta, July 30
Mrs W. E. Stone, resting in an i'm
nroyised camp on Mount canon
described today how the shrill
sound of her voice, caught up by
the multitude of peaks and crags
and reechoing, saved her life after
her husband, president of Purdue
university, of Lafayette, Ind, had
perished in climbing the mountain
and after she had lain eight lays on
perilous ledge.
A searching party had figured out
the probable course that DR.. and
Mrs. Stone would take in the at
tempt to ascend Mount Eanon.
From a 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
woman from afar. Listening in
tently the searchers heard it again.
A more minute inspection with
their glasses revealed lar 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 1t 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 To-
Mr. and Mrs Stone expected to
make the climb, rest at the top, and
then get back TO the food cache that
night.
Fell 5000 Feet
Dr.. Stone was climbing above,
hopefully, cheerfully and unhesi-
tztingiy, when without a word OF
warning, a farewell of any kind. not
even 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 it from cliff to
clin and on down the side of the
mountain. She began a hasty de-
scent of the cliff in an effort to get
. to her husband. She fought her
way down the side of the mountain.
and when found was 5000 feet be-
low the point where DR.. Stone had
fallen from.
At this point how Mrs. Stone be
af
she does not know herself. She could
proceed neither way. In that posi-
ton 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 it was because of
this spirit that she eventually was
discovered.
Had Presentiment.
DR.. Stone seemed to have had a
presentiment 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, a searching party
should be sent out. The mountain
Is almost inaccessible.
Last year a Wakefield party made
an unsuccessful attempt to scale it
they had reached an altitude of
s'oS feet when they came TO a
Stone wall which was impossible to
ascend. They had no time to make
another attempt. but suggested that
"a ascent might be made from the
southeast end of Mount Glory. With
nls information DR.. and Mrs. Stone
ically.