ARCTIC TRAGEDY
- e EIELSON’S BODY FOUND ii (By Cable —Press Assn. —Copyright.) 1 (Recd. Feb. 18, 10 a.m.). ■ x NOME (Alaska) February 17. ? The frozen bodies of Carl Ben Eiels son and Earl Borland were found buriend in a snowbank where they were ’ hurled as their ’plane crashed on No- > vember 9* near North Cape. > Eielson and the mechanic were re- « turning with a cargo of furs from the I Siberian coast, when fog intervened I Evidently, their altimeter falsely re- . gistered a thousand feet off the 1 ■ ground. When going full speed, they crashed into a snow mound scattering 1 engine parts and fuselage over half I
an acre, killing both men instantly. t Twenty thousand pounds was spent by the United States and Canadian Governments in searching for the men, fl and Soviet officials rendered valuable “ assistance, having eighteen workmen t digging snow- to uncover the bodies. a
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1930, Page 3
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