Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-28
NORTHWEST SWEPT
BY NEW COLD WAVE.
Tales of Heroic Rescues Dur
ing Last Weeks Blizzard
Bare Battles.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, January 28.-As another
severe cold wave swept into the North
west today heroic rescue stories enacted
during last weeks billiards continue 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.
Equaling in interest the victory over
the clements in taking an 1i-year- old
idaho girl over 80 miles Of snow-drifted
trail to hospital at Cottonwood,
Idaho, was the story of the methods
taken to get an ailing caretaker in the
Yellowstone out for medical treatment
Herded horses featured in the Idaho
rescue, while horses, toboggan, ambu-
lance, tractor and special train were
used in the Yellowstone rescue. Air.
planes located a stricken plane near
Elko New, and horses were used to res
cue the pilot and his two passengers,
who suffered greatly from exposure
when the plane made forced landing
in Secret Pass.
Jack Worth, Old Faithful Inn Winter
keeper, was under a physicians care in
Livingston, Mont, today after 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
a special train down its branch line to
pick up the man, stricken with heart
disease.
Cowboys Aid Friend.
small band of cowboys and stock
men pushed their way back home
through 10-foot snow drifts from Cot
tonwood today, after assurances that
Narcie Aram, 1i-year-old daughter OF
from an operation for acute appendi-
citis.
The cowboys struggled through a
blizzard and drifted snow for many
hours, driving horses before them to
break the trail, as they fought to clear
the path for the sleigh carrying the suf-
fering girl, who was stricken last Thurs
day morning at her fathers ranch.
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 Bar
Der, who was injured about the head
in the crash, was In a serious condition
at Salt Lake hospital. Barber was
brought down last Thursday by blind
ing Snowstorm.
Vehicles Weather Bound.
Scores of trucks and automobiles
were weather bound In isolated Colo
RADIO and Wyoming sections today,
where residents opened their homes to
shelter those n1arooned 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 plow into
Lewiston, Idaho. The wind blew so
hard that the road closed in the wake
of the pillow before the caravan could
pass.
Believed to have become exhausted
while battling the storm. John Jelivocan
Of Butte, Mont was found nearly frozen
on the outskirts Of that city yesterday.
physicians believe he win lose his hands
and feet.
Guests at the Gaylord Hotel at Co
lumbia Falls, Mont, were forced out in
to 10 degrees below zero weather when
the structure was destroyed by fire Sum
day.
Butte last night reported new snow
fall ranging up to six inches, while two
feet of snow fell at Thompson Falls,
Mont. The mercury fell to a. degrees
Northern Montana points reported
readings nearly as low.
Untold suffering has been caused
range livestock In all the mountain
States, and it is feared losses will be
high.
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