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ARCTIC TILE TOLD
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Wien agreed to fly to Barrow for help
if the three others would help them
get off the snow covered ice. In the
face of a strong' head wind while Rob
ertson, Clarke and Merrill held the
wings, the plane took the air and sail,
eo away. The plan was1 that they
should fly to Barrow,refuel, come back
with provisions and dispatch dog
teams, as a secondary relief. The bad
weather' continued and they never ;
got back.
The three voyaguers waited for 9
days, subsisting on half a cup of rice
per day, which was all the provisions
they had. They were able to cook it
in the cabin of the plane where they
housed themselves against the howl
ing winds while they waited in re.
signed patience. There was no vis
ibility in the driving storm and the
plane was practically snowed in. At
the end of tlvj ninth day they saw the j
j sky for the first time and they tried |
i to set Merrill off in an empty plane j
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j but couldn’t raise i-t
STARTED TO WALK
| Then Clarke and Robertson started
1 to walk to Barrow for help, thinking j
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A reward of $575 is offered by the
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j cot viction of the party or parties
I prisoning dogs.
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liey could make the .supposed 6u miles j
in four days. The snow was knee.deep .
and they had no snowshoes, neither j
did they have any food of any sort, i
having left what little rice there was i
foil Merrill until they could send back
another releif party.
The .story of that trip 'onngs acutely
to the home-fed, safely.ensconced ur- !
banite an appalling conception of j
what a human being can go thru and ;
still remain alive and kicking.
STUMBLED BLINDLY
The two men stumbled for 11 days 1
towards Barrow with only a compass
to guide them and no food. They
counldn’t even snare rabbits as the
blizzard covered the landscape in a
roar, and an object a few feet away
seemed to be a long distance off.
Many times they were fooled by the
signs they thought might lead to hu
man companionship, but they were
always mocked. They struggled along,
helping each other, often falling face
forward in the .snow until the numb
ing cold warned their tortured minds
that they were in danger of freezing
when they labored to their feet and
/struggled on again. Clarke suffered
tendon troubles in his heels which
practically' made him helpless in the
last stages of this weird journey,
while Robertson had two frozen toc-s
which he did not feel until he reached
Barrow.
ARE PICKED UP
Iii tils meantime word of the lost
party had been sent out, and Matt
Nienemc-n of the Anchorage company,
•scouting oat from Harrow. :1 d
them up about 21 miles from Burrow
after they had skirted the Arctic
coast in their la. . feeble wanderings.
They were taken to the Barrow hos.
pital where they laid in bed for five
weeks.
Two days after they had let- Merrill
on the ice of an unknown lake with
his plane, he tried to start his -hip. He
did get it started but the wind im
mediately overturned it and it came
down on its nose, wrecking the pro
peller. He was getting desperate by
that time and with no rice left, he too
started for Barrow afoot. He had the
only pair of snow-shoes in the outfU
and made fair time, following in the
general direction taken by Robersen
and Clarke.
GOT POISON MEAT
it happens that as he too, neared
the coast, he took a slightly different
angle from the other two and ran into
a cache of decayed and frozen whale
meat left by some unknown parties
for dog feed. He ate unsparingly of
this and some mice and lemmings he
managed to capture. He then stag
gered on toward Barrow and aafter
being out 11 days was found by John
Hegness of Cape llaikett who was out
in search with a dog team. After being
put aboard the sled, Merrill took off
las glasses and within half an hour
was striken with snow blindness to
add to his other troubles. After 10
days in the Pt. Barrow hospital he
seemed to be recovering from the ter.
rible affects of his hazardous journey,
when the poison meat he had eaten
got in its work which laid 'him low ag
ain with intestinal fever and almost
cost him his life During :he sojourn
afterwards the three men lost about
40 pounds each.
FUTILE SEARCH
Wein and Hart had made Bar.
row when they left the unnamed lake
and after refueling went back hut
couldn’t locate the lake in tho driving
storm. They managed to get hack
to Barrow but the weather became
so thick that they couldn’t take eff
again for 20 days.
Shortly afterwards, Scott and Wise
wore brought in from Fairbanks by
Matt Nieneman on the second relief
plane, and for tho first time since
their stop in Fairbanks the Fox party
was together again with two flyers
and two planes. The flyers went
out with new prop” and found Mer
rill’s plane and brought that to Bar.
row, making three planes there.
Then Hart Clarke and Wise went
out with Wien and NJenamen in two
planes to Kotzebue and Fairbanks,
leaving Robertson, Scott and Merrill
at Barrow with Merrill’s piano. Mer
rill’s condition continued worse, and
the plan that the three should fly to
Wainwright was abandoned becaus
SOS signals had to be sent out 'o i
save Merrill's life.
MERRILL SAVED
Noel Wien and Ralph Wien, his j
brother, finally heard the faint call j
from Barrow and arrived in a plane, j
Merrill was bundled up and with
Miss Morgan, who had worked hero,
ically for all of them, was brought
eventually to Anchorage by Noel
Wion where he is now able to he
about and apparently soon recovered.
Robertson and Scott put their camera
equipment in Mtarrill’s plane and
Ralph Wien dropped them at Wain
wright where they took up their wal
rus photography for a month. They
took a cutter down to Nome, caught
another boat up the Yukon and came
out by way of the Alaska Railroad to
Seward. They Heft Seward Septem
ber 2 for Hollywood where the mo.
tion pictur colony is awaiting them
“The first relief plane to Barrow
to hear the great story at firlst hand,
brought us a small wireless outfit,”
said Robert.-or, “and this second re
lief brought more equipment but we
were unable to get anything out ex
cept a faint S O S for Merrill which
was finally heard and brought relief.)
Ak a result the government has estate |
lished a real sending station at Bar. !
row.
“Ail I can say i- tat it was one of
the toughest experiences I have ever
had in hq North, but I am glad to
report that I was teamed up with a
bunch of the gatrust guys I have
ever met,” said Robertson. "What?
Certainty I'm coming back. 1 have a
lot of unfinished business in Alaska.
I dont think I'd cans to live my life
anywhere else on earth”
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