Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 21, 1920, Page 8

|continnou » before reaching an alti- tude at which there was no snow, and then trudged weurily ten miles fur- fe before He sighted a humane That. was at 4 ranch a mile west of Ar f ington, and there he found #heter and! warm hospitality. Later he was taken by Soe obtle fourteen miles to Roel River, nearest railroad point, and Rie heat a train, - PILOT NARRATES THRILLING TALE. | ~ OF ARPLANE ACCCIDENT IN BLIZZARD Mail Aviator Who Wrecked Ship on Snow Mountain! Early This Week Escapes Miraculously After a Struggle of 24 Hours Through Snow Dnifts CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct 21-—Pilot James P. Murray of the air mail, who late Monday wrecked his ship on Snow mountain, in southern Carbon county, and who spent the succeeding 24) hours in the open, finally reaching a ranch 17 miles distant from the scene of the catastrophe after wallowing miles in a blinding storm through a. foot of-snoW, told a stirring. story of his ex-} periences during a brief stop here while. en route to Nerwieh> “Conn. Suromer cottages, equipped with stoves where he will attend the funeral of his 894 stocked With .cannéd provisions.) Murray’Sy ship was No. 117, that in) which’ Pilot Yeager a few days eral made a speed record between . Rock |3prings and Cheyenne. Murray's catastrophe, according. te Sis deseription of the locality, ocew within @ mile of the point where Lieut, i Wales hurtled to death on October, 9,! 1919, while-on the second transconti- nental lap of the army air race: The two disasters took place under al- most {identical circumstances. | Wales. also was blinded by a snowstorm and” drove headlong into Snow Mountain{| ; within a few feet of the summit. He? occupied the forward cockpit and was: instinly killed when the engine was driven backward ‘Into the’ cockpit, ‘but i | father. The elaer rray died Yajmost | Where he might have been snug and‘ his observer, Lieut. W. ©, Goldsbor- simultaneously with the son's escape! Comfortable during the dreary hours gf, ough, who, like Murray, was strapped fro: jdarkness adhe been\aware of théir|in the rear cockpit, escaped without] death on’ the blizzard-lashed Wyo- sericas injuries. Iv salvaging - the motor of Wa hip it was necessary Removing his flying togs that’ he! to encase it in a giant snowball and might hive greater freedom of movye-| send thé latter rolling down the, pre- | cipitious. mountain:$4e.. The salyag- {ment, Murray left the cottages and set! h |out as he «upposed northward, toward|ng party on the way to the scene of} the wreck .of No. 117 i& prepared to the railroad, but in fact eastward. For} seven miles he floundered through the| adopt the same expedient if it be nee- foot deep snow, with more snow falling! essary. ‘ { nearness to the spot where exhaustion lovercame him. m crous reef therial sea on. which | contestant tal air race his death, all but} Murray when, a blizzard, he} nd Four against the ship so com-} LOY PETE, BRAMAN STEER, 15 FINALLY CHPTUR ] LESION POST 10 WINTER aEAST i NENT STAMPEDE | “Baldy Pete,” the wild Brahman steer which broke loose: ye, Sanne. Foe era the | the second day of the American Legion Stampede and which payecath ered ae ree en Des been loose on the mountainside south of Casper ever since, approaching, Mountain, of which} WSS Captured this week by Bert Steed’s brother and another cowboy. The steer de‘ied capture during the days of the Snow Mounta’ spur, 130 miles east of Rock Sprin into a blinding ‘Stampede following his sudden departure after he had bucked to the ground one of the best Stampeds show storm and at 4:27 met disaster. “I was flying through the’ storm,!roders and for more than a. week the|at the Casper Fear: 100 ‘mil Lieut. in the 7 a ye dashed to clsimed the life of Pi confused and bli drove his De Ha the peak, wre: ne Pletely th: it was miraculous that the ah only superfictal~in- r hours later) Mur- a seventeen-mile and over Struggle th mmountainou ii ranch héuse n ke at 12:30 Mon- nne, 400 miles Stampede but. no one which hid the ground, and did not see! attempts to capture him. have ‘been | WAS alle to stay on him-at either show. the mountain until I was right upon fruitless although several attempts| Tlie steer is a yellow buckskin one. it,” said. Mu: were made, When captired here he was in a well Now the American Legion post here | aggravated and peevish condition as a Swill winter him in Casper so that he} result of wearing surcingle about his will be on hand next year for the sec-! body since the first of September. It “I attempted to rise sharply, but there wasn’t time and the landing gear of my ship struck a tree about 60 feet tally tilting the nose of the shi 4, ond Stampede show. ‘Baldy Pete” js| took many minutes before the two Cas- causing it to crash into the rocks at{the steer which Yakima Conutt amd | per cowboys) could down the steer and the ‘very tip of the mountain. There|J0h@ny Maggert failed to ride at the|get a rope around him. Bert Steed is the Casper boy who made such a great showing in the Stampede here lust onth : Stampede last month and. which has | yet to be ridden. ‘Baldy Pete” was at the Bozemar, Mont, Roundup ‘and als: was a rending crash. Maybe it was half a minute, ma: several minutes, before I could rally my stunned senses sufficiently to realize what bad taken I found myscif in the center, of and tangled wreck. The) n jammed “backward the‘ forward cockpit, which’ contained the mail, but the pilot's cock-{ pit was almost intact. My first thought} was of fire and I lost no time in loos- ening my straps. and clambering™ to rafety: The gas, however, did not ig-! nite. Blood was /streaming from @& cut in my forehead made by the glass sf my smashed goggles, andl was} groggy and weak. When I took’ stock of the situation I found I was on top of @ mountain covered by a foot of snow,! ignorant of my whereabouts and | buzzard whjpping the peak. 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He suffered CASPER Wwvyo. erely from cold, but slept several he hours in intermittent periods. - When day daw » found himself. within LAST TIMES TODAY “The Cost” From the Famous Novel by David Graham Phillips —ALSO— LARRY SEMON i In His New Comedy “THE SUITOR” Iris Concert Orchestra Every Afternoon ADMISSION—30c, Including Tax and Night Shows Begin at 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 8:00 and 9:30 FRIDAY and SATURDAY “A CHILD FOR SALE” PLAN NEW We i r eo | “A man who racharee. pee, in- | competent as a ee oe 5 cern has cout alter pier aay aire we which a protected by this li~ : “to show. tg people that ok: : ts s Am “other” instances In -which it was pri that plumbing] work is dangerous: to the public heal-h council) > > ‘She coyneil offered an sdnendraeri to the present plumbing ordinance pro- | § pared rather t! @ new ordinance ang | also ordered iin in the amount} of. fines, assesseA for violations of the ordinance. It further ordered that the plumbing inspector bé told to press prosecutions for Violations of the ordin- afice In-any particylar. No objections ta the assessment roll for Grading Distriet No. 7 on the Sand: bar were filed, and the roll was ordered | 4 confirmed. license is wholly w cense WI SCHOOL IN 1921, | -A petition from the school board asked the deeding to School District No. 2 of a full city block in the north- } east corner Of the sehool section south of. town for the erection of a school next spring. { ‘The city water reservoir is located on this part of the school séction, whith! Lin _ chars of all work along these : Gi GIVEN ~ eS lines. Ho fa in charge of the installation Serna IA GIVEN and itspection of meters among other recommended at the |™matters in this connection. pes aap ie be poured. day. pe 4 hased ie gears, ing the “hy engineer fail supervision] a {im PR eimniiss the ity some we cen | the city sewer and water xystems | | sinha Wa We: Beok and. Mayor, including \\he_reservolrs, pipe Lai ry y honaintes Into the jumping stations, and all matters cone)” Neg ter me pe ae ie Yexorvolr from }Aceted with them, was read and adopt- seen te foal is-ereetel |ed.- ‘This makes City Engineer Frank 1 ta iving ot S.-Knitte the responsible head of th. main- water and sewer systems of the city : ‘The! coune!l engi Peppuarts jon of the council giy-! Bids on additional work @one in sani- Make the world safe for your posterity 1 p. m. to 11 p. m. TODAY LET'S GO—FIRST WILLIAM ‘CAPITOL LIFE’ MCGREW ‘Phone 153 * . 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