The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-19
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Pathetic Hope Ends

PathetAc Hope Ends
 The intelligence ended the pa- thetic hope of pr. Richard M. Boo Of San Francisco, whose niece, Mrs. Helen Ferreira, of Cheyenne, Wyo,, one of the planes i6 passengers, had been about to have c baby. Hoping that she stall was alive, either un- hurt in the crash or graVely injured, he had flown to Salt Lake City to join Q searching party, expecting # possible to deliver her child ct the scene of the wreck by Q CaeSarian operation.
 Dr. Boo was left In Salt Lako Clty when c rescue plane flew to Knight. The United Airlines Clerk explained that he had forgotten to warn the doctor that the plane was leaving.
 I could have rested just aS well in San Francisco" Dr. Boe complained,
 Company officials indicated that they considered the doctor iacap- able of WithStand:ng the hard climb through the snow to the wrockagc and that ho was outfitted iinprop- erly for SO vigorous c journey. Wreckage in Utah
 Location Of the wreckage was in northeastern Utah about 10 miles northeast of Hayden Peak in tho Uinta Mountains.
 The plane was badly smashed but was largely in one peace, Johnson reported in Knight, The motors were torn loose and lay in the snow ahead of the fuselage.
 We didn't touch Q think, 50 we haven't any idea yet what caused the crash" he said.
 None of the bodies was identified because of the searching parts were ordered to disturb nothing.
 Alex Janison, Unto County, Wyo., rancher who guided Johns party said there apparently had been . flash of fire after the crash, but the ship was not burned.
 Inside the ship we could detect faint cdor of burned gasoline" he said.
 The airliner crashed just 100 feet below saddle" in the mountain ridge which marks source of c small creek. The ship was headed west in the general direction of Salt Lake City-its destination.
 Plane Struck Hard
 The plane struck so hard that Il seats--ail well fastened to the floor of the cabin-Werc torn loose and followed the occupants out the front of the plane. Virtually everything movable in the cabin went out the hole in the nose.
 J. W. Myers, another rancher who accompanied the party, said 1t ap- peared that most of the snow had fallen since the crash.
 There were no traces of the crash in the snow and the bodies were nearly covered" he said. Tt was terrible"
 Members of the party said that had the plane been flying only about 300 feet to the right 1t would have gone through 8 notch in the ridge and cleared the mountain range.
 Snow was so deep in the wild mountain country that Johnson's bCagCliLAIB puEky Wao uunUAS tO pEO- ceed even at the rate of one mile an hour. The drifts ranged from three to six feet in depth.
 Long Difficult Climb
 Searchers were able to get within three miles of the scene by automo- bile, but 1t was long difi1cult climb from the end of the road to the 10000 foot level where the wreckage lay.
 United Airlines officials immedi- ately organized a party of about 10 rangers in Knight to start out with pack train to bring out the bodies.
 The searching party arrived at the wreckage after dark last night and only with great difilculty de- termined extent of the wreck.
 They had no light. The only man in the party with fiashlight faint ed on the trail and dropped out of the party.