The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-25
12 Survivors 0fAIps Crash Taken Home
 Seven Men, Four
 Women end Child
 Rescued Sunday

Army rescue train II" carrying l2 Americans sslatched Co safety from Swiss naountainside after five nights cf exposure passed through here today enroute Co the rescued partys European nome" in Vienna. Brig. Gen. Ralph Tate, acccin. panying the party. said, "all the sure vivors stu are suffering from shock" Take's wife and son were among the l2 narooned passengers and crewnaen of the crashed C-b3 transport rescued from the Alpine height yesterday by two Swiss ski- planes.
 The rescue train was scheduled to reach Vienna at 7:6O ?. M. IL left rnterlaken, Switzerland, early Sunday evening, and the survivors spent their first night Of safety In fis hospital car beds.
 CAlld nmFvives Ordeal Aboard he train were the seven men, four WeEnen ard ll-year~old Alice hseAGnhnn who had been res- cued. Tate. end Drig. Gen. Ralph
 snavely. whose wife was also aboard the dOwned plane.
 Tate said the only survivor se- rioualy injured was Sgt. Wayne Folsom, postvil1e, Ia. Folsoms knee was badly broken. The gen- erals son, Capt. Ralph Tate. IT,. pilot of the crashed plane, had a bad gash from hairiine down to his nose," the general said.
 Correspondents were not permit ted aboard the four-car train when 1t halted at the bomb-scarred Mu- nich station. They got c glimpse of li-year-old Alice peering out from an upper berth. The blonde, pale girl smiled and waved. She was ciutching e comic book. A train attendant quickly drew her shade.
 Tate said George Harvey. U. s. Army civilian employe who was the 18th person aboard the plane, was going on to Vienna although nor- mally stationed in Munich. Har- vey had not been listed on the | original passenger manifest. and un- til yesterday 1t was believed only | ii persons were marooned. He is | an oil expert from Iron Mountain, Mich.
 Survivors Taken Home
 Army officials in Vienna said most" of the i2 survivors would be taken to their homes in Vienna upon arrival. Original plans had | been to put them in an Army hos pital. All the party except Harvey | were, or had been. stationed at D. S. Army headquarters in Vienna.
 6navely said his wife had a bad | hrulse on her leg. He said all i2 had an assortment of black eyes and bruises" He called the H. year-old girls conduct while ma rooned 'fine--eremplary." He be- lieved the group had saved their lives by wrapping the planes up- holstery and other fabrics in the plane around them.
 Capt. Thomas Mervine of Phil- adelphia. chief surgeon of the 10th General Hospital in Vienna, said ell l2 persons were eating, but some were on a soft diet. During much of their ordeal they had eaten only chocolate bars from the Army ra- tions.
 Sn onlooker who saw Mrs Snave~ ly ct Augsburg. when the train passed there. said she looked well and was reading . detective story.
 6ki-planes Go Te Rescue
 The l2 survivors were flown from | the glacier down to Meiringen, Switzerland. yesterday in a shuttle | operation involving nine flights by | the swiss sd-planes. They were I driven to Interiaken. % miles away. | and placed aboard the train.
 Captain Tate said the group had | made beds from the plane seats | and were reasonably comfortable | under the circumstances" He said | strong winds had blown the plane | off its course into the Alps. When | a glacier loosned before him. he | said. he had to make . pancake landing on t.