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Show KILLED IN WILD RUN ' ! DOWN MOUNTAIN SIDE 1 L;: LOS ANGELES. Feb. 1J. John Freitas," I : aged 17, was killed, and Joseph Schult?:, fll '- aged 13, was Injured In a wild run down ' fiji thc side of Mount Wilson today. Tin 1 W 1 two young men, with a third companion, $'. 1 jH had ascended the mountain early thin ' morning from Los Angeles, and w.era '. f' warming coffee near an Ice slido to the ' IH north observatory, when Frcltas slipped . . In the snow and plunged over tho edgo P jH of thc gorge. He slid for somo distance i ,-; and then struck a rock and bounded somo P , distance, striking: his head on another ,'- rock. His body rolled COO feet down thu h side of thc mountain and lodged In a ' jh.ttx mass of rock. Schultz and his companion y P ran along the edgo of the precipice, look- Y ing for a place to descend. SchulU started down, but slipped and rolled 30" lis. feet, finally lodging In a trco. Tho third ' f i member of tho party went for help, and ; gp Schultz was rescued from his perilous po- ', 9 sition. Frcltas's body was found, but it (l, was impossible to get It to the top of tho if ,. mountain, and It had to be taken down '; 'J. and out of Gabriel's canyon into Pasa- j ..r dena. Ills neck was broken. Scliulta ..' R was badly injured. 1 V |