Show r S I N 6 MEN M E N IN I N CAMP CAMPB Balloonists B Who Went Up in inthe inthe inthe the America Safe After Harrowing Experience FLIGHT WAS VERY SHORT BUT PARTY LANDED IN SNOW COVERED SIERRAS Los Angeles March 23 After one of the most harrowing experiences in the history of ballooning Captain A E Mueller and his five companions who ascended in the big Ferris racing bal hal balloon balloon loon America at Tournament park jark lark Pasadena at last Saturday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon and have since been lost In the wilds of the Sierra Madre mountains arrived on foot at camp on the slopes of Mount Wilson footsore and weary but unharmed The Themen Themen men passed through a series of hard hardships hardships hardships ships the details debUs of which have not been learned Arriving at camp at 3 this afternoon the themen themen themen men were shortly afterwards provided with horses and began the descent from there to Pasadena over a tortuous and I slippery trail A single telephone wire across the mountains brought the first word of their ther safe arrival at the camp to the anxious relatives and nd friends In Pasadena and to the thousands waiting for some tidings of the missing men menThe menThe The telephone wire to the mountain moun camp shortly failed and but little add addi additional tlona information regarding their Ha Hazardous hazardous hazardous trip was learned until the men reached rea hed Pasadena late at night Flight of Two Hours The baloon was In the air less than two hours It was carried by the strong north wind over ver high summit of Mount Lowe and swept on across the intervening peaks and con to the lofty summit of Mount Ga where by the reckless casting away of ballast the balloon cleared and soared away towards Strawberry peak on the third range Crossing this at a alow alow alow low altitude tile the bag encountered a strong current of cold air which brought It rapidly to earth A success successful successful ful Ut landing was effected on the north northside side Aide of Strawberry peak In what is known as Little canyon at about 5 Saturday afternoon less Jess than Iwo two hours after their ascension at Pasadena The distance covered was WR less Jess than fifteen miles In a direct line but by any possible foot route many times that distance The voyagers o uncertain of their bear bearings bearIngs bearIngs ings and with darkness rapidly ap approaching approaching approaching wandered aimlessly over t the ie e mountains until the following aft afternoon afternoon afternoon Sunday when they unexpectedly edly came to ranch an isolated habitation far from any an road and with without without out communication with the outside World In the meantime a terrific wind and snowstorm had broken over the themo mountains mo which for many hours raged a veritable blizzard During this time the men suffered from the cold but the supplies of provisions which r r they carried with ith them was Wall sufficient to guarantee against hunger until their ar arrival arrival arrival rival at the ranch At the party 4 remained until the middle of ot Monday afternoon the he storm ceased Finally Reached Thoy Tho Immediately took up the snow choked c trails across the mountains to toward toward toward ward Pasadena All An of the remainder of the time the party traveled as best they the could until this afternoon when they suddenly came upon camp nestling In the side of or the moun mountain I J tain tam still nearly ten miles from Pasa Pasadena Pasadena dena by b direct route A party of res rescuers rescuers cuers on horseback were at having h Just returned after twenty hours of search for the missing men For a afew 1 afew few minutes there was a happy reunion of friends and then the news waz flashed to Pasadena Not In years has haa an event created such a stir here as this thrilling episode of the balloonists For three days searching parties have scoured the country in all aU directions while relatives and friends waited almost without nope e for news f a tragedy With Captain Mueller In the Amer America AmerIca ica lea were Richard Hasted Sydney Gray Harold Parker and Ed Edward Edward Edward ward all residents of Pasa d na i Captain Mueller summarized summarize his re remarkable remarkable remarkable experience as follows I i saw the top of a barren peak hardly large enough to hold bold the basket of the car In the center of this peak pek was a apine apine pine tree which had been burned I 1 pulled the alve cord and we shot down downward downward ward When Wilen We wo wore were within feet jf of the tho mountain the men following my In Instructions threw over oer all aU the ballast and the appendix cord was pulled and the balloon flew open forming a parachute Wo We 0 landed handed on the rock within ten feet of ot ofa a sheer precipice No o one was injured In the slightest The car was hardly Jolted I 1 say sa mod modestly estly that it was the most remarkable landing of a balloon of or which I 1 have hae ever known |