The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-03

After hours of struggle we made 1t down until we found creek. We followed it as long as we could until it made a sudden drop; in fact all of the land in front of us dropped, and at our side was a gully about a hundred yards wide.
 Baby Hungry
 My husband tried to go back to find a way out but soon came back too weak and tired to move further. Peter kept saying that he did not feel good in his stomach; never having experienced hunger before he did not know what it was.
 T knew that the baby could not walk any more. He was asleep on his feet most of the time. What hurt me more than anything was to hear him say in his baby voice that God will help us
 T knew that one of us must get out and get help, and since my husband could not make it l de- cided to try I left them resting on a messy bank and started along the edge of the ravine to see if I could find some way to get down.
 Knocked Unconscious
 Suddenly, I staggered and fell over the edge, drop of about 60 feet. l landed in the creek on my head and was knocked unconscious. 1 How long I laid there I don't 1 know. I came to with the water running over my body. For long time I could not remember what l had happened.
 Stumbling to my feet, made my way down the creek. Every | time I paused I would drop off to sleep. It took every bit of my will power to remain awake.
 Finally, saw the road far be- low me and the lights of car. i I began to shout for help, and miraculously, my voice was carried to the men in the car.
 Rescued
 They helped me get down the rest of the way and one of the | men George Folta) gave me his trousers and shirt and heavy socks , to put on. They also gave me hot i soup, which I did not want as had lost all desire for food. They | sent for an ambulance and brought ! me to the hospital
 Asked if the experience had made her dislike the country, Mrs. ! Schneider replied, +"No, but I'm going to be content to just look at the mountain out of my kitchen i window from now on.'
 Obtaining what information they could from her, the searchers began a trek up the mountain to rescue the father and son. After many | hours they were found, and the small victim was tenderly carried | down the mountainside to the waiting ambulance, having first 1 enjoyed a ham sandwich and hot | coffee at the rescue spot.
 pr. J. O. Rude, the attending physician, reports the young man is in good condition though very tired.
 Schneider Brought Down
 Schneider was brought down off the slopes of Mt. Juneau at Il a. m. and is now resting at St. Ann's Hospital after 48-hour stay on the mountain.
 He is Tn an exhausted condition His arms and legs are still numb from the bitter, chilling cold that enveloped him at all times, and, his hands are full of devil-club I spines, which along with the chilling weather, caused them to swell.
 Schneider said when he and his wife and baby started out Sunday | afternoon on a picnic they crossed i the creek on the pipeline bridge and started up the mountain. At first it was easy going, he said Darkness came and they were stuck among | the cliffs. Schneider said he left his | wife and baby and groping around | in the dark, looked for way down. | Not seeing a cliff, hidden in the heavy underbrush, he fell-going down steep slope for about hun : dred feet. In the fall he broke his i glasses. With great difficulty he climbed back up and rejoined his wife and baby. That was his last | attempt to find a way down as he | cannot see very well without his glasses.
 He said "the heavy underbrush on | the mountainside fooled me. It is not gentle slope"
 Schneider said he had had some | experience climbing mountains in the States before he came to Alaska He mentioned climbing Pikes Peak, Colorado, once and said After climbing mountain 14,000 feet high l did not think mountain but 5000 feet high would be anything"
 The Schneider incident brings to seven the number of attempts to climb Mount Juneau that has been cause for searching parties. Several