AIRMEN’S PLIGHT.
NEW YORK, January 9. Word concerning the indescribable hardships suffered by three naval airmen who left New York in a- balloon on December 13, lias just been revealed in a letter received by the airmen’s wives. The letter states that they were driven by a gale, and landed at Moose Factory, in James Bay, on December 21, with little clothing, every possession having been thrown out of the balloon in order to keep it up. The winds drove the machine far north, the airmen being terribly distressed by hunger and cold. One of them asked his comrades to kill and eat him in order to rescue themselves. Finally, hearing a dog bark they landed in a wilderness where Indian trappers rescued them, and the first news of their whereabouts were brought by Indian runners over the snowcovered trails to Cochran, and thence telegraphed to civilisation. The airmen, with guides, have travelled for more than a week from Moose Factory, which is the
Hudson’s Bay Company’s trading post but they have not yet reached Cochran One airman is Hinton, of fame.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3487, 11 January 1921, Page 22
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