The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-01-12
AIRMI:N EMERGE
|FR0H.FRlGIDWILD
Three Naval BaLOOniStS kTf.Vs
i at MaItIce, Ont.
ALL IN GOOD CONDITION

Declare That Experience Was One
They Never Wish to Pass Through
Again,
Mattice, Ont, Jan. The th..ty
American naval balIool.i-te $,ri,tld'',,
near Hudson Bay when thrir By bag
descended after a blight from Rock
awey, y. Y, reached this ta;!haad
after mushing down from Moose Far
tory.
The officers, Lieutenants Louis A.
Kloor, Jr.. of New Orleans; Walter
Hinton. of Belle Harbor, \. Y. and
Stephen \. Farrell, Of New York
found a corps Of newsoapermen Walt
Ing to greet them when they entered
thiE settlement.
All tnree aili%aI3 we're in excellent
condition They reported a" f&cl!iH4
Incidents Oh their do&stct tiny down
from Moose Factory.
Iienssaants Hinton and Farrell
o,na 70 blows in Il sensational climax
., the aernuaurs' trip hack t" ciVlII-
aati~f
Alleged dcrogatory references cen
.crnjng Terrell, made in letter pur~
n,rtcd to have been written by tim
ton to his wife and given out for pub
E,a;iou. caused TIE fight. Farrell
struck Hinton on the Jaw and knock
cd him down Newspapermcn anu
friends Of the two officers saE2Fated
thpin. pa, }r"y parted WITHOUT making
10 their ,f!ifrrcn3P%.
IA, enltnr Of kind rarely known
70 humans Of a hundrum world befeli
the three in the performance of SIM
BE navy duty, Il test fight in the rou-
iiI,c Of general department orders, tn
test ar currents nmcr!; the clouds
phQve their home sfat!on at Rock
away, y. Y,
The officers set out in free bal
loon which "let 60" rbout noon, De
cemhec 49, 'she bis has rose grace
fully ard fearlessly into the sky anu
drlfled gently away, Slowly it gath
cred Roadway and pointed up New
York STATE, Increasing its rate OF
tra,c! until night found ii in the path
q" n driving storm which swept 1t
:;,ta q desperate race with death that
ID not enI until % days later when
til, men reached the railhead and an
olan read 10 civilization here.
Early in the afternoon of December
IL. after Il Wild nights pide in the
li.tl.. storm. tossed basket or their bal
loon Farrell. Hinton and klO0r land
eli. wcurled from a desperate flight,
their rations gone and IN a SNOW
blankcted forest of a country I'M
Known to them-face to face with all
the rpris of the winter in northern
%i35.
(lut Of the black OF their fight
cn!y the treetOps of the AdrOndacks,
the town OF Wells, y. Y, gllmpseG far
below. and the faint barking of dog
Ia The woods in the Hudson Bay coun-
'ry were distinct to them. The clouds
lad swallowed all else. Now they
were lost, armed with the balloons
compass and the uncertain location
Of a dogs bark for Il hint of habita-
ton.
They set out, gfnping and stumbl-
lug through the snow and brush OF the
Canadian woods, On what proved %
lie a four-day journey in which death
constantly stared them in the race.
With hope nearly spent they spied the
figure OF lone Indian in the woods
ahead OF them. Their cries halted him
and he led them to his tent and then
sped away over forest trails for help.
On December IS the balloonists
reached Moose Factory, nOrthera Hud-
son Bay trading lost, within striking
distance Of the Canadian TranSeOntl-
mental railway and the route home.
The nearest telegraph office was W
miles away. 1t took two weeks for
Wo?u O. their rescue to reach the out
side world
On January 2 brief report OF their
safe arrival at Moose Factory was
announced at Rockaway, when Hin
IONS MESA e-senl by Indian run
ncr 10 a railhead and flashed by tele
graph To an ANXIOUS naval commander
was received:
Ninety-siN hours after Farrell,
Hinton and Kloor had sailed away In
their FREQ balloon, search was started
for them. Army airplanes were dis
patched into the Adirondack country.
and the authorities Of New York state
anu Canada bent every effort TO aid in
the hunt. Naval officers at ROckaway
plotted the probable course Of the
missing balloon and reports from
Wells ana peighbOring townships told
of citizens having spotted" lights
swinging In the night skies as from
ship in the clouds, progressing to-
ward the international line.
The first thing that Lieutenant
Klo0r did upon his arrival was to
make a fiat denial % the statement
credited to Lieutenant Hinton thai,
Lieutenant Farrell had offered his
life In an effort to save his compan,
Ions. abe story had II that Farrell
worn ont. had offered his body ia his
hungry fellow aviatoTs as f0@t
IieLr int Kloor hpwev7.-. Crclar
Ell thar during the days !, II were
Numbering in the woods near Moose
l.,A G,Cn tyry