Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-01-27

Camp 61-C The flashlight burned
out by daybreak the next morning.
We stuck it out until about o'clock
that morning when l dozed off to
sleep and our fire went out. Our
last stick of wood was burned.
THE blizzard never let up. We
made few starts but the blizzard
was bowling and Is inches of snow
had fallen and drifted frightfully
that night We made four or five at
tempts to leave after the fire went
out but were forced to turn back
to the tree. We were cold and shiv
ering
Start Out Again
About IL o'clock my brother
cheered up and said, / believe we
will be saved Follow me- His foot
was already frozen
Il had no gloves, having given
them to Mr.. Peterson.
I'VE crawled on our hands and
knees to the top of the pass and got
behind tree for rest We found
few pieces of dry goods box. 1t was
too windy to build fire and seeing
the timber line below us we took the
pieces of box in our hands and fol-
lowed my brother, who had gone
ahead. Jim Lewis followed behino
us and we made the top of the hill.
knew where | was all the time
never was lost, although we were
snowbound. Most of the sign posts
were showed in.
1--WE started to crawl from this
place down hill to SIC, after having
crossed the hump. 1t was pretty
hard going down hill. We sunk into
the snow. We finally got into the
timber, which sheltered us from the
blizzard. We made our way to
dry tree and could see dead limbs.
The blizzard was quiet here and we
could see a little.
Both my hands were holding the
pieces of box wood and were frozen
stiff with snow and ice | knocked
the pieces of wood against q tree
and they came loose. | rubbed my
hands with snow.
I'VE then made attempts to get a
small fire started. The blizzard was
still bowling and we could see the
snow storm blown over the top of the
hill Jim Lewis was breaking some
limbs from nearby tree while my
brother and | were trying to start a
fire when God sent His angels to
come down to get US.
1T seemed to me that | was not
going on my own strength. We
heard faint noise and soon Jerry,
the dog team man. with six men was
coming from Camp so to 61-C and
had bys accident cut across instead
of following the trail and they found
us. They built a fire and gave us
snow shoes.
This was about $50 p. m, Christ
mas day 1t was showing and hail
ing and the wind was blowing. jim
Lewis got his snow shoes on first
and followed the four men who went
ahead to break a trail My brother
and followed him. l was so weak
that fell down five times and finally
reached the cabin at SIC.
Overcome by Weakness
E'The cabin was showed under ex-
cept the stove pipe which. showed
out of the top. We practically
kicked off our snow shoes and got
down to the hot fire There we fell
over from weakness. We discovered
my brothers toe was frozen. 1t had
turned black.
Sam Roberts wrapped my broth
er's foot in cotton, and strapped on
to the foot a small piece of goods
box for support l had a rigging
ready with couple of sides out of
milk box for snow shoes.
I'VE followed Sam Roberts trail
to the top of the mountain and he
guided us to Camp so. If we got
more than so feet apart we could
not see each other
Half way down the hill we met
the two steam gauges with two
pairs of snow shoes on their backs
They asked us if we wanted the snow
shoes but we had never worn snow
shoes and felt that we could get
along better on the rigging as long
as we stuck to the road to the bot
tom.
1--WE made it over the trail. 1t
seems like a miracle that my brother
walked seven miles with frozen toe
for when he was by the fire he could
scarcely walk twice the length of the
house without dropping over