MAROONED BY SNOW
Bisr Task For Rescuers SAN FRANCISCO, Fe b. 14. - Bescue crews worked at top speed in four widely separated western areas, to free over 100 persons, snowbound. Thirty-two persons, including an exjpeetant mother, marooncd sinec JDecem-' jber 27 on the snow-buried north rim of ithe Grand Canyon, have notified the approaching rescuers that food is innning low and they f eared another snowstorm. The rescuers, still 54 miles away, attacked the intervening drifts with three big snowplows including a snowmobile used by Byrd on one of his AntaTctic expeditions; Elsewhere seven men are missing. The searehing parties are facing lalraost unsurmountable diffieulties.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 26, 15 February 1937, Page 8
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