New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1929-01-28
HEROIC RESCUES
MADE IN STORMS
ulaJ Stranded Persons Saved
in W6tan Billiards


Denver, Jan. IS N-As another
severe cold wave swept into the
northwest today, stories of heroic
rescues enacted during last weeks
blissards continued to filter from
snowbound sections where horses,
sleighs, tractors, planes and even
trains were pressed into rescue
service to bring stricken persons to
medical care.
Equalling in interest the victory
over the elements in taking an IL
year ola Idaho girl over so miles
Of NOW dritted trail to a hospital
at Cottonwood, Idaho, was the story
Of the methods taken to get an all
ing caretaker in Yellowstone park
out for medical treatment.
Horses featured in the Idaho res
cue while horses, toboggan. am
bulance, . tractor and special
train were used in the Yellowstone
rescue. Airplanes located a stricken
plane near Elko, New, and horses
were used to rescue the pilot and
his two passengers, who suffered
greatly from exposure when the
plane made a forced landing in Sc
cret Pass.
Jack Worth, Old Faithful inn win
ter keeper, was under PHYSICIANS
care in Livingston. Mont, today aft
er an epic battle in the deep SHOWS
Of picturesque Yellowstone. The
last stage of his trip was from
Gardiner to Livingston. and when
an ambulance was unable to break
through, the Northern Pacific ran a
special train down its branch line
to pick up the man, stricken with
heart disease.
Telephone Treatment
Worth was attended last week by
his wife and ranger. who treated
him under instructions telephoned
from Mammoth. Then the medicine
gave out and rescue parties went to
his relief. He was hauled by tobog-
gan to Norris. A four horse team
and Z tractor took him to Golden
Gate where an ambulance replaced
the bedded sleigh in which Worth
had made the So mile journey.
He probably will recover. it was
said.
A small band OF cowboys and
stockmen pushed their way back
home through 10. foot snow drifts
from Cottonwood today after as
surances that Narcie Aram. IL year
old daughter Of their friend, Jim
Aram. was recovering from an
operation for acute appendicitis.
Tho cowboys struggled through a
blizzard and drifted snow for many
hours, driving . band OF horses be-
fore them to break the trail, as they
fought to clear the path for the
sleigh carrying the suffering girl,
who was stricken last Thursday
morning at her fathers ranch.
Her father bundled her into a
sleigh and started for Cottonwood,
but after an ali day battle. was
forced back. He called neighbors by
telephone for assistance and the re-
Spouse was immediate and success
full.
The passengers OF the marooned
plane. L. j. Pfleuger. San Francisco,
and A. p. Ames, Camden. Me-. left
Salt Lake for their homes last night
after their terrifying experience in
the snowbound Nevada desert. The
pilot, Frank Barber, who was in
ijured about the head in the crash.
was in q serious condition at a Salt
Lake hospital.
Barber was brought down last
Thursday BY binding snowstorm.
Planes found the ship Friday after
noon. and ranchers beat the trail to
it through deep drifts early Satur-
day. finding the men in a nearly
frozen condition. Barber. semi-con-
,scious, lay in the twisted fuselage
moaning for help, while his COM
panions were too weak to aid him.
Weather Bound
Scores Of trucks and automobiles
were weather bound In isolated
OSAVtNAo AAN 6cCllUI6 IT,
day. where residents opened their
homes to shelter those marooned
until the long-lived blizzard passes.
Workmen with shovels rescued
three trucks and four automobiles
which were snowbound yesterday
while attempting to follow a rotary
snow pillow into Lewiston. Idaho.
The wind blew 80 hard that the
road closed in the wake Of the pillow
before the caravan could pass.
Most Of the small towns and VIII
lagos of Idaho which lacked rail-
road communications were isolated
Eastern Washington and Oregon
were little better off, with plows and
crews at work continuously to keep
roads open.
Believed to have become exhaust
ed while battling the storm, John
Selivocan of Butte. Mont, was
found nearly frozen on the out
skirts Of that city yesterday. Ply
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