The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-02-20
Less Than Foot of
SnOW Covered Spot
~ "
Distance Hero Was Hurled from Fuselage In
dicates He Died Instantly in Terrific Crash
On Frozen Lagoon
RUSSIAN PILOT DISCOVERS REMAINS
Arctic Flying Heroes Placed in Plane for Trans
portation to Alaska When Weather Per-
mits Flight
RUSSIAN PILOT DISCOVERS REMAINS

Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 2o-(AP)-The closing chap
ter Of q series Of daring polar adventures was being writ
opportunity to fly out Of the treacherous northland with
the bodies Of two aerial heroes, Carl Ben Eielson and his
Word that Eielson's body had been recovered Tuesday
from the spot, 80 miles southeast Of North Cape, Siberia,
where his plane was wrecked last November 3 was wire
lessed to Fairbanks last night by Joe Crosson, one Of the
American pilots engaged in the long hunt for the missing
birdmen. Borland's body was found last Thursday.
Crosson, at the icehound fur-trading motorship Nanuk
near North Cape, to which Eieson and Borland were flying
when they crashed; reported that Eielson's body had been
plane and under less than one foot Of snow, the wind hav.
$50 FEET r o BORLANDS BODY
Eielson's body was located about $50 feet from the
place where that Of Borland ay- indicating that their ship
crashed with terrific impact. Wreckage Of the plane. 10
a long and discouraging hunt, was scattered over a wide
area. The motor: near which Borland's body was found.
was hurled 100 feet beyond the fuselage, while ono wing
was found 200 feet from where the main portion Of tho
plane crashed.
sian pilot. located Eielson's body, and word Of the dis
covery was taken to the Nanuk last night by Crosson.
The bodies were placed aboard Sipenov's ship, to be
flown to the Nanuk as soon as weather conditions permit
ted. They will be flown then to Alaska. Borland, whose
wife and two small children live in Alaska, vii! be buried
in Seattle, while the body Of Eielson will be taken by his
father. Ole Eielson, to Hatton, n: D., for interment in the
family burial plot. The elder Eielson now is in Alaska
""''' A a. X BE s AVIATOR
Eiehon, conqueror OF both the Arctic and Antarctic in
airplane exploration, was Alaska''s best-known aviator, and
he perhaps did more than any other person to establish the
airplane as a means Of transportation in the polar regions.
His most famous aerial exploit was a flight on April
Alaska, to spitzbergen, a distance of about 1000 miles.
with Captain George Hubert wilkins. wilkins subsequently,
Wilkins and Eielson had beaten Road Amundsen
and Lincoln Ellsworth in flying across the Arctic blind
s 8 siris sS s'' eoa q q ssy Rie Anspf E. sy aat a s,'ss' sap,s ssss
back . few days after the wilkins-Eelson flight.
Antarctic during the fall Of 1928. With Pilot Crosson and
an engineer and : radio operator they flew from Deception
Island to 1920 south latitude, crossing. Graham Land and
establishing that it was not . peninsula Of the Antarctic
continent, as most maps showed it at that time. This flight
made them the first aviators to operate in the
Eis's'R Y sTG g ssass 81 sau i' %a ais,;i sos s.. q.
sensers and furs from the Manu- 10 Nons. zisska. When
lost. Accompanied BY Frank Dorhandt, they made one trip
On onItiS TIE second taIseff. Dorssnit rssarsss to T.ssr. ri
base. after ! short flight q accopnt q adverse weaker.
while Eielson continued. Neither = nor Boraand were 80
Repeated effort. ~.r. -. = 8 \ search q ~
Or %' s. see sss 81 . RI 49, s' III s'isss IL : 6 6.ssss y =, .ss si fases
NM. Me.a~ail. tl.ss 80. - - = a.. -
s sssi' & z ca.ssis. IL 49, i - = -. D. i
these planes - vrsssa1 . afA1.npuse t1kssll ~
81 ;l sss; sssss.s m III INV ~ : s:zs s1s sssss
had .sadtsd The 49, Il ,.n1Z3 -: .l.,s.x5..s .
.fron Nosth ca. 80 1@
%. =; . 4: =
~ c6joefea tAdr 1oE1 ksx&E ss. M Msaa& saxzN