Marooned by Snow
TREMENDOUS TASK FACES RESCUERS United Press Assrelation—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrlgh t. Received Sunday, 8.30 p.m. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14. Rescue crews worked at top speed in four widely separated western areas, to free over 100 persons snowbound. Thirty-two persons, including an ex pectant mother, marooned since December 27 on the snow-buried north rim of the Grand Canyon, have notified tlio approaching rescuers that food is running low and they feared 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 Antarctic expeditions. Elsewhere seven men are missing. The searching parties are facing almost unsurmountable difficulties.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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113Marooned by Snow Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 38, 15 February 1937, Page 6
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