Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-02-20 | Page 1 | Searchers Find Eielson's Body

SAR SEARCHERS fRS fl flIR FIND EIELSON'S IR S 'S BODY D Famed Flier Found Dead Near Wreckage of Arctic Plane FAIRBANKS Feb 20 O Associated Press Word Press Word that the body of Carl Ben Eielson noted poUr polar flier had b c e e en n recovered F near the wreckage of of hi his plane ninety nine nine- ty miles south south- least of Nor North t h l 4 Cape Siberia Siber a on on- 5 Tuesday w wa was a a to Fairbanks Fairbanks Fair Fair- banks last night by Joe Crosson I one of tho American Amer ican lean fliers who I t conducted t the h a 4 search for the lost explorer J x p to lorer re r. r EI I onCI body 4 and that of Earl Carl Ben hs his mechanic me me- we were r 0 placed aboard 3 an art n n airplane at the scene while rescuers awaited d fa favorable fa a- a weather r to fly out of oC the Continued OIL oti page pago 5 5 SEARCHERS FIND EIELSON'S BODY Continued from front paso page 1 1 Siberian northland with them Borland's Borland's Borland's Bor Bor- lands land's body was found round last Thurs Thurs- day Th The two fliers filers met mcL death No No- ember vember D 3 when their piano crashed on oft a a. little island in a frozen lagoon Crosson at tho lino Icebound fur trading trading trad trad- ing Inc motor 6 II near North orth Cape Capt to which and Borland Dorlan wro flying the they crashed re reported reported re- re ported that lelson's body hotly ha had 1 been I found more than 00 t feet t from the fuselage of or his wrecked necked piano and under less than ono one foot oot of or snow tho the wind having s swept lt the spot nearly clear t y WRECKAGE SCATTERED nelsons nelson's body lay Jay about 10 feet feel front from the place where that of oC Borland Borland Bor DOI land lund 13 lay indicating that their the ship crashed clashed with t lei terrific rifle impact Wreck reek ago aEO of or the tho plane located tc January 23 25 b by Crosson and Pilot Harold GHIani Gillam after a long and discouraging hunt was as scattered cd o cr a aido 1 ido wJ o area nica Tills The motor near ar which Borland's Bollands body was round found was vas hurled feet teet beyond bond the tho fuselage while ono one wing was vas as found OO feet from rom where the main portion of pC tho the piano era crashed hed A searching chins part headed b by Commander nu Russian pilot located bod body Tuc Tuesday day and word of the time discovery cly was taken to the Na 11 U I last night by Cio Crosson son Tho Tine ha bodies lN were placed aboard s ship to bo ho flown to the thc theNan Nan k as H soon ns itS weather conditions conditions condi condi- Hons permitted They rhey will then bo be flown Clown to Ja J Alaska lm Borland whose and two f small mall children ren live e In Alaska will bo he hurled burled in Seattle while the ho body of oC Eielson will betaken bo ho taken b by his father Olo oto to Hatton N N. D. D for burial In Iii the time fancily family plot Tho Tine older elder Eidson is in Alaska awaiting tho the hod body ACE OF COLD REGIONS conqueror of ot both the tine Arctic and Antarctic in airplane ex exploration exploration ex- ex was Alaska's Iak best known aviator lator and he perhaps did more than an any other per person to establish tho the airplane as a means of oC tran transportation pol tation in iii tho polar regions region His Ills rno most t famous aerial exploit was a flight across tho the tip of nC the world from fron Point Barrow Banow Alaska to en a a. distance of about I 2000 WOO mules miles with Captain George Hubert Wilkins Tho feat was performed performed per per- formed April in Hi InS and s subsequently l was wag knighted by 1 Bill Kins ln Geor George e of oC England Wilkins lIkins and Ison crossed the tine Retie Arctic blind spot moro more than a month in advance of ot tho dirigible piloted by uy General Umberto Nobil oC of Italy tab on a flight from gen en Two years ars earlier Richard K B- Byrd Jr of tho the United States navy flew fiery from Spitzbergen to the north polo and return in an In airplane Afew A 11 few Cew da days s 's after tho the End Byrd flight m-ht th tin sen r mun cj pe diLion crossed the tho north polo on r flight from front Spitzbergen to Alaska laska WORK IN ANTARCTIC and their 1 in tile the Antarctic during the fall fill of or Ins 1928 PIlo Crosson rind and ui can engineer r and a rail ladle laI l opera operator tor the they flew from Dc island to 71 0 south latitude cross eross crossIng rc s' s sn Ing n ng Lind end nd that it was L not a l peninsula of or UK tin Arctic continent ai ni most mapp I sho rd at that thal lim tim this ligin made them tho lino first aviators to op- op operate crato erato in th the tho south houth frigid ld zone was eras 3 32 years cars old and Borl ind n aS