Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-12

letter from Lieut.. Louis Kloor jr.,
Factory. and made public here today
by his father.
Snow was all we had to drink" the
letter said. telling of the trip to Moose
Factory after the balloon landed. We
lived on two carrier pigeons. which.
luckily. did not send back with mes
sages. This misery lasted for three
days-lost and no signs OF hope or
habitation in sight.
Friday, after having followed a
small river from where we first landed
in the balloon. discovered sled tracks
in the ice and we set off to follow
them. II we had not found these sled
tracks We would not be living today.
We followed the tracks for at least
five miles. They led into a large lake
OF ice at least two miles wide. After
walking along for about an hour on
the lake, in the direction the tracks led
we spied a man about mile ahead Of
us. After many wild shouts of distress
managed to stop him, and got to
him to tell him to help US find town
or some house, food and clothing.
Much 10 my dismay. I found that
he could only speak in his native
Indian tongue. but after many signs
/ made him understand the conditions
of myself and my companions. Lieuts.
aTEtli anu tllllOH "eIc PlagSu oui-
The Indian led me for two hours
through snow and leo to this place,
where to my Joy. found n settlement
of white traders and Indians.
After dispatching n rescue party for
friends, l ate ferociously for about an
hour to satisfy the craving OF my
famished self
II never conceived when lost in the
woods that we were so far north. Tho
settlers tell us that this is the mildest
winter they have had in twenty years.
SO you see God was with us and saved
us from death. as last year at this
time the weather was 20 to 80 degrees
below zero"
Lieutenant Kloor said the start
home would be made about Monday
December 81, dads birthday" and
that he should be in New York again
January 10, my twenty-third birth
day."
TT makes mo feel very sad to think
this incident in my life will have
caused you so much worry and dis
II ess during the holidays" he added,
instead or enjoying yourself you
were sad, detected and believed mo
dead, and IL you can realize how near
we were To death and how miracul-
ously we were snatched from death.
you would forgive ALL"
Mattice, Jan. 11.-The aeronauts
were met by Trooper Louis McLaugh-
lin. of the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police. who handed them a bundle OF
government dispatches from Washing
ton.
There was not the slightest effort to
place the Americans under technical
arrest because of II "ir alleged viola
ton of International air regulations
by landing in Canada without duo
formality. The first thing that Lieut..
Kloor did upon his arrival was TO
make flat denial of the statement
credited to Lieut. Hinton that Lieut.
Farrell had offered his life in an eff
fort to save his companions. Tho
story had It that Farrell, worn out,
had offered his body to HIS hungry
fellow aviator4 as food.
Lieut.. Kloor however. declared that
during the days they were wandering
in tho woods near Moose Factory their
only food had been carrier pigeons.
Adventure of a kind rarely known
to humans OF humdrum world be-
fell the three in the performance of
simple navy duty, test flight in the
routine of general department or
dcrs, to test air current among the
clouds above their home station at
Rockaway, n. Y.
The officers set out in free balloon
which let ro' about noon, December
Is. Tho big bag rose gracefully into
the sky and drifted gently away.
Slowly is gathered headway and point
ed up New York state. increasing its
speed until night found II in the path
of a driving storm which swept it
into a desperate race with death that