Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 1 | Snow Hinders Scouts' Rescue

s nw SCOUT C IS E Part Party of 25 2 5 May May- EG Reached by Mond Monday y Is s-B s Belief lief f MODESTO Cal Calif f. f Dec 31 AP Freshly falling snow today today- hindered hin bin der dered a rescue r party parts paMy that pushed its way over wa over a snow choked mountain moun moun- tam tarn tain tr trail il toward a party of ty five Boy Boy Scouts and ancL their leaders lead ers s marooned in the Sierras thirty thirty- t- t two miles Jove ove here The scouts made their way three miles from their c camp mp at Pinecrest o 0 the tho Pickering Picketing Lumber company c camp mp N No 1 I fourteen miles miles- above Long Barn digging all day to e ef effect el- el the three-mile three trek through the snow now Provisions are are- adequate for for- two lays flays Vernon scout executive said in a a. long distance telephone call to 10 Sonora and the entire p party found shelter at at the lumber r camp camp which which h had d been abandoned d for tile the winter Vinter At L Long ng Barn a ti tr tractor actor tor began gan pushing g it Its w way y through th the snow SLOW and at Cold Springs half way to to the camp with ari another ther tractor fractor the thebo bo boj boys s 's s also digging their w way to meet their rescuers rescue They They will be taken out of their prison camp by tOm tomOrrow tomorrow tomor tomOr- r- r row or r Monday at the lat latest st itis It Itis Itis is bell believed ve here hete Most of ot the boys boys- who average rage in age from 12 to 19 years are residents of Modesto and other cities dUes In Stanislaus county I