SNOWBOUND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 282, 28 November 1931, Page 9

SNOWBOUND.

Five Hundred Indians Isolated in

New Mexico.

WHITE MEN TO THE RESCUE

; ' f (Received 12 npon.) GAI/LUP (New Mexico), November 27. The pioneer days of the old Far West, with the roles, however, reversed, were je'erujeted to-day when 50 white men on florseback set-out to'rescue 500 Indians trapped by a blizzard in the west of New Mexico.. The Indians have-been marooned Qn top gf tlie continental divide while terv§§tij)g pjnou nuts. , The snowbound Indians, members of tfle Zuni tribe, include women and cftil«l'en and-have already been reported by cpurier. Nine fatalities have occurred liopi exposure due to the bitter cokl prevailing. There is 10 feet of snow in P aces, choking the trails and overcoming the nigged mustangs of the ranges. The - eterologieal Bureau predicts more snow '"Id still lower temperatures. . '', e plight of the aborigines is becomnicreasingly serious. Pinon nuts .aio-.their only food, and this is rapidly 'Wmshing. ' Tough pinon wood fuel provides their only warmth, and their . otJnng is the usual summer garb of laiikets ;md moccasins. The -weather conditions are part of an "nusiial cold wave that lias gripped the a r West during the past fortnight.