The Wrangell sentinel., 1930-12-18
Martins Rescue
 Related by Staff Sgt. McNeil
STARVING MEN SEE RESCUE PLANE TWICE; SMOKE SIGNAL BRINGS AID; GUIDE RESCUERS WITH LAST CARTRIDGE

l TOO weak to cry out in answer to shouts of the rescue party who were pushing the search for them through a blinding snowstorm, Emil Kading fired his last rife cartridge to attract attention. In this dram attic fashion the two-months quest for Capt. Burke, Bob Martin and Emil Kading was brought to a close last Wednesday by Everett Wasson and Jack Walsh. flying the Tread well Yukon Companys plane "Claire" from Whitehorse. This is the information brought to Wrar gell this week by Staff Sgt. A. Me Neil of the British Columbia Police. Sergeant McNeil is stationed at Prince Rupert. and the story as re- ceived by him in his official report follows:
 Wasson and Walsh left White horse December 6, intending to fly to Pelly Banks Post in the hope of finding the missing airman. They were flying up the left fork of the Liard, about 40 miles from Burke's plane, when a smoke signal was ob- served Wasson circled low and saw two men whom he took to be of Burke's party. He kicked off two packages of food with a message that he would hand on small lake about ten miles away.
 Rescuers Fight Snowstorm Charging snowfiakes filled the air as they landed. They set out on snowshoes and mushed the rest of the afternoon, passing within a short distance of the camp without knowing it. At II o'clock that night they stopped and made camp. It was still showing when they hit the trail next morning, but they knew they must be close to the camp, and began to shout as they walked. At o'clock in the after noon they heard a shot. This was Kading's last cartridge. He had heard their shouts but was too weak to answer.
 Survivors Story
 Both Kading and Martin showed plainly the signs of suffering. They were gaunt and haggard and frost bitten. Martin had frozen two of his toes, and Kading had a frost bitten hand They were without food save for the shank of a caribou that Kading had shot November 15.
 Burke was dead. He was too far gone from starvation and exhaus- tion when Kading shot the caribou to survive. He made the last entry in his diary November 6, and wrote letten to his wife His comrades wrapped him in his sleping bag and made a grave of logs.
 Burke ran into a snowstorm soon after taking off from Llard Post for Atlin on October II. They were forced down at the headwaters of the Liard, took off a second time. and were again forced to land, this time damaging a pontoon. They stayed by the plane until October IT, and after carving a note on a tree they started for Wolf Lake. where Burke had a cache of food.
 The party had 25 pounds of grub when they started, and when this was exhausted they lived for 23 days on four squirrels and duck.
 See Rescue Plane
 Kading and Martin had already seen Wasson twice but were Hra to build a fire quickly enoue
 make a smoke signal. Finally camped and prepared a signal. December 6 they heard the drone motor and lit their fire. Wasso circled and kicked off the pack of food. They waited all that '' and the next, wondering if thf plane had gone off without them Even when they heard the shouting they were too weak to answer. It was then that Kading sacrificed his last cartridge to direct the search CTS to camp.
 The trip back to the plane was not easy. The snow was waist deep and they only had three pairs of snowshoes. Woodsman Walsh im- proyised a pair of ski for Kading and after a day of mushing they reached the ship. They took on the next morning and reached Whitehorse at noon, to be greeted on the field by one or the most en- thusiastic demonstrations ever ac- corded white men in the Yukon.
 Search For Renahan
 Sergeant McNeil, who arrived In Wrangell from Prince Rupert on the Princee Norah last Sunday, re- ports that the aerial quest for Rena- han has been abandoned, and that a party of searchers is coming from Seattle on the motorship Margnita.
 A dozen or so of skiffs equipped with outboard motors, manned by woodsmen from the Sound, will ex- plore the bays and inlets in the vicinity of the Skeena and the beaches of various islands, to see 1T
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