TRAGEDY IN FAR NORTH
AVIATOR’S BODY DISCOVERED
TWO COMPANIONS ALMOST DEAD.
FORCED LANDING IN YUKON SNOW.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.
Rece. 10 p.m. Vancouver, Dec. 10. Captain Burke, who has been missing in the remote Far North since October 11, was found dead, but his companions, Mechanic Emil Kading and Prospector Bob Marten, are alive, according to a report by a Yukon Airways pilot, Wasson, who has just returned from the search.
Captain Burke’s body was found 40 miles from where his airplane was forced down on the head waters of the Laird River, near the Yukon border; Kading and Marten were in the • last stages of exhaustion. They. three times saw the search planes but could not attract them. Finally they lit a huge bonfire, which Wasson saw and landed on a tiny lake 12 miles away.
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 December 1930, Page 9
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