Show l tl t OlSON FUMES MENACE Huge Copier opler Flies Aid To Stricken i EMIGRANT MIGRANT GAP Cal Cat Jan 15 The t-The The first four passengers off the snowbound City of San Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco reported Tuesday that carbon carbon carbon car car- bon monoxide gas had overcome many of the passengers Twenty-seven Twenty passengers they reported were in bad shape Train Nearly Covered The stranded train was said to toI tobe tobe be almost covered by snow I A Big Coast Guard helicopter able to carry six stretcher cases at a time was flying here from S Sacramento With a crew of four it left Sacramento airport at 1240 pm p.m. The Southern Pacific office at Sacramento said rail officials I were hopeful that a rescue train would reach the stranded streamliner stream stream- liner liner find ind remove all the passengers passengers passengers gers before dark The first four off the train were servicemen brought to Nyack Lodge here in a snow catto cat catto catto to test possible escape routes Gas Enters Cars They reported to Herschel Jones lodge operator that gas apparently from emergency heating heating heating heat heat- ing apparatus filtered into the covered cars while those aboard slept When the emergency was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered there was only one doctor doctor doctor doc doc- tor a civilian aboard the train He and five military nurses also passengers began rousing passengers passengers gers from compartments of the train tram All AU bodied able men aboard the train turned out to help walk half-dazed half sleepers up and down corridors to revive them They worked for 20 hours straight the four reported SAN FRANCISCO Jan 15 UP Dog UP-Dog Dog sleds ski teams and weasels battled up both sides of the Sierra Nevadas Tuesday as asa asa asa a snowplow crept along invisible tracks to within 12 miles of persons trapped without light or heat in the snowbound streamliner streamliner streamliner stream stream- liner City of San Francisco Sixth Army rescue crews equipped with six sL snow weasels followed on flat cars on a special train as gas the rotary snowplow growled by Alta AHa Cal within 12 miles of its goal a Southern Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- Pacific dispatcher at Colfax re re- ported The Army crews included two doctors six sL medical aid men and anda a quantity of oC medicine Food Runs Short Food was reported running short aboard the snowbound train Meanwhile another relief train fought its way up the eastern slope of the mountains from Truckee Cal near the Nevada border It also carried doctors who expected to make the last few ew miles by dog sled The fhe sleds and dogs were carried aboard the relief train S Snowplows n now o w p 1 low o w s from Norden Nordell worked in both directions clearing clearing clear- clear ing ng the tracks before the westbound west west- bound rescue train a company spokesman said There are arc 18 feet of snow at athe atthe atthe he the the summit R. R D. D D Spence trainmaster at Crystal Lake reached the train early this morning and said the winds which howled by the I stranded passengers Monday ata at ata a velocity up to mph had decreased decreased decreased de de- creased to about a mph 30 clip However he said snow continued continued con- con to fall heavily upon the train rain which is pinned immobile between two giant on the he western side of the slope Heavy snows and southwesterly southwesterly southwesterly southwest southwest- erly gales were forecast for the I See Page 2 Column 3 A TRAIN Continued from Page One area Tuesday as the storm which has been hitting California and Nevada was expected to bring rain snow and frequent squalls in the San Francisco Bay region and throughout northern Cali Cali- fornia Already the rescue i operation had claimed two lives Engineer Rolly Roily R R. R Raymond 50 and a machinist ma ma- machinist named Lopez were killed when their rotary snowplow engine engine engine en en- gine was swept away by an avalanche ava ava- avalanche lanche after it was stalled by a snowplow Their bodies had not been recovered The two men were within sight of the trapped train when the avalanche roared down upon them They died on the west side of Donner Summit about 30 miles from the historic spot on the east side where the ill fated Donner Donner Donner Don Don- ner wagon train party turned to cannibalism while snowbound more than a century ago Driven to desperation by cold that fit to your face like a death mask in December 1846 and January 1847 the 81 members of the party turned to pack animals animals ani ani- mals and finally infant children for food Only 45 survived One rescue party using skis reached the train Monday londay night with a small amount of food and medical supplies Snow at the scene was 14 feet deep |