The Nome nugget., 1927-10-22
TALBOT SCOTT RECEIVES
 BROKEN COLLAR BONE
Auto Keller Car Goes Over Bluff
 At Cape Nome. Other Troubles

i At Cape Nome. Other Troubles A telephone message from Solo
 mon Thursday evening at 6:00 o o'clock informed Mrs Talbot Scott that her husband met with a ser ] ious accident while engaged in dis mantling the Eskimo Gold dredge at Orafina It appears that while disconnecting the upper end of the bucket ladder. which holds he bucket line of the dredge, and upon which MT Scott was mount ed. and after severing tho last bolt which held il in place before lowering. the cables which were expected to hold and lower it. sud denly gave such q lurch that it threw AIr. Scott into the air
 In falling Mr. Scott fell 30 feet the bucket line. head first, break ing through the thin ice which had formed It was probably lucky for him that he did fall into the well instead of falling on the solid ice around the dredge. Will ing hands soon fished him out of the icy water and took him into camp.
 MT Scott was able to walk to the bunk house but did not know just how badly he was hurt II was decided to telephone to Nome for an automobile to come and bring him to the hospital. His partner, Bert Mccarthy assisted by Frank Brunch. after telephon- ing for an automobile to meet them enroute to Nome, started with an auto for Safety with MT Scott, arriving 1t Safety little after seven h. m. where they were met by Alfred J Lomen and D. E. Crowley, of the Lomen Reindeer Corporation, who are owners of the dredge which IS being dis mantled to be moved to Osborne creek this winter
 After enjoying a good meal pre- rarad ny mine host Chas. Dah!
 ouist. proprietor of the famous Safety roadhouse. Messrs I.omen and Crowley started the return trip to Nome with MT. Scott. in a Ford sedan Everything went fine until they were rounding Cape Nome and wien in one of the steepest and s!irrryest nlaces on the road rounding this Cape. whicn :s ahout 500 :eet above Boring S.ei the au
 t"p,abile came to stop. Mir l.o- men realizing the seriousness IS of the situation, decided that Mir. Scott should be taken out of the car in case of accident. This done, Mir. Crowley ventured to drive the car up the hill over the overflow of ice which covered the roadway at this point with MT. Lomen acting as the G. o. P. escort to the car
 When about one foot from clearing the ice covered road, the wheels be gan to spin and the car started to back down the hill. Lomen, seeing that the car was gaining moment um and running over the edge of the embankment. yelled to Crowley to jump. which he did. Crowley did not have time to shut eff the engine. although the emergency
 brakes We're on, and the ca went down over Cape Nome like . "iauc- l gernaut' of old. With all lights
 burning brightly it made Il grand sight which even Henry Ford would
 have been glad to witness, as it
 made it's aerial plung" through s:.ace for about 75 feet.
 Strange to relate the Ford ear did not turn over and after run ming backward over rocks as big as the car itself. 1t finally came to
 a sudden stop when 1t hit bould-
 CT of several tons in weight. Upon
 examination it was found that not
 a window in the car was even
 broken. but 1t Is expected that the
 chassis Is more or less injured from
 being bent by the boulders. How
 ever. a crew was sent down to the
 Cape Friday to haul the car back onto the road and bring it to town. The roadhouse keeper of the Cape Nome roadhouse, Captain Schrein-