Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-15 | Page 1 | Amundsen Saved, Unverified Report

I II I Amundsen mUD seD ave Ie Report 6 LOST rums FLiERS J TAKEN A N fR FROM M ICE FLOE IS RUM RUMOR R Varming Picked Up by Norwegian Ice Breaker Near Cape Brun BrunI I BLINDED BY GLARE Two Companions of Guide Previously Rescued COPENHAGEN July 15 Sun day According AP-According to the Stock holm hoim there is an unconfirmed firmed rumor that Captain Roald Amundsen and the tho other othel members of his crew of the missing French plane have been rescued The report was said to have come com from fishing vessels working close clos to Bear island Another version was that these fishing boats have actually effected the rescue of the party from an ice floe Captain Amundsen had but two weeks weeks' provisions when he h. went in search of the lost Italia He was last heard from June 18 The French aviator was piloting piloting pilot pilot- ing his plane and there were four foul others in the expedition ROME ROM E July 14 The AP-The Stefani News Agency tonight made public a report received by the Nobile base ship Citta di Milano to the effect that the Danish gUide Varming had been rescued from the ice near Cape Brun by the Norwegian Nor Nor- Ice breaker Braganza Varming was a a. member ot of the Party of oC Alpine Chasseur Captain Captala Sora whIch set out sonic some weeks aGo aGoto agoto to attempt to reach the Italia survivors sur- sur on Foyn Island He was waa blinded by the glare from the Ice and his two companions were ere forced to leave him behInd with pro pro- I visIons They were rescued yesterday yesterday yester- yester day by Swedish and Finnish airplanes airplanes air air- planes from Foyn Island where they had taken refuge If the report Is true Varming wilt will have been the eleventh person to tobe tobe be rescued from the Ice fields north I or of Spitzbergen sInce the crash ot of the Italia Halla The Braganza Ss is reported to be making an effort to reach the Rus sIan aviator and hi his four companions marooned by dam age to their plane near Cape Platen Light sledges which have been sent over o the ice are believed to have good chances of reaching the Ice conditions were reported favor favor- able The text ot of the official statement from Crom the dl di Milano to the Agency Indicates the entire en- en tire patrol was taken talen abo rd the ship It reads PATROL RETURNS The guide Varming just as Captain Cap Cap- tam tain Sora who had been left leU on the coast oft off because be be- cause he was unable to carry on to Foyn Island has returned to the tho Braganza together with the AlpIne patrol and the student members ot of the Italian Alpine club Ely By ALS ANDERSON United Pr Press ss Special Correspondent Copyright 1928 by United Press Prell KINGS BAY Spitzbergen July 14 Safo by a hairs hair's breadth from death amid crashing ice floes Sergeant Sergeant Ser Ser- geant V. V Nilsson of the Swedish royal all air force told the United Press Pres today the dramatic story of how Captain Sora and Van were rescued yesterday from the ice off Nilsson told with tears In his ees eyes the latest of the poignant tra tragedies edles linked up with the crash or of the Italia he had ben been forced to leave behind on the Ice the dogs who were with the two cued men lt It will be r recalled that the Russian Bus Rus- sian Ice breaker discovered Sora and Van standing on th thI the I Ice as she proceeded to the rescue Continued on page 10 Section Two LONE EXPLORER TAKEN FROM ICE DISPATCHES SAY Continued from pas page 1 or of the five men at the talia's Hallas Ice camp off Foyn Island PLANE FAILS TO RISE She left them intending to return Nilsson told how he and his crew rescued the two dog sled men and of how narrow narrowly I all escaped death when the heavily laden plane ll fl failed for twenty minutes to rise from frenn the water amidst ice floes that threatened to crush It t. t week k Nilsson Throughout the we- we said we had encountered fog in inthe the strait that prevented flying over N After Acte- ix days ot of tantalizing waiting we clew to Foyn Island In 21 2 hours early Friday morning Thero Thera we sighted Sora Som and Van Dongen We landed in a small space of open water But scarcely had we landed when we observed that the space was growing smaller and that lee ice floes had drifted toward us from aU all dIrections There was no time for tor formali- formali ties Sora and Van Dongen rush rushed d toward us and leaped aboard the plane a as soon as It was near enough h to the Ice floe noe on which they were we're were Isolated Isola ted WORK FRANTICALLY With the two men aboard we tried to start the three motors of our plane They were out or of order and would not lift tilt the heavy plane It It is Impossible to describe at length our frantic work within the next few minutes In Intense anxiety anxIety we tried again and again to n vain to get the motors to running properly r Then just In time the th three motors began throbbing in perfect Unison We Ve r roared ared into the air aJr only thanks thanks' to a quick rise by which he succeeded ded In avoiding the jutting peaks ks ot of the encircling ice floes An attempt to rescue the dogs would have cost the lives ot of all of us We had to leave them But all Of us were heart broken as the faithful anImals stood at the edge ot of the Ice barking and whining aftel after af af- tel ter us HAD ABANDONED HOPE iSara I ISora Sara Sora and Van Dongen naturally were gleeful during the flight Van Dongen confided that he had abandoned abandoned aban- aban all hope of rescue l J July ly 14 AP The Ru m an Ice breaker l has been ordered to search thoroughly off the southeast coast of Spitzbergen gen for Roald Amundsen and his five companions missing since th they o hopped oft off in a plane piane to the aid Id of the Italia Halla survivors The l had bad been ordered to return to Archangel but when hope was revived that the Amundsen party still may be alive the orders were countermanded A message from the ice breaker Krassin saId that the aviator who was forced to descend near Cape Platen after sighting Captains Mariano and Zap Zap- pi Italia talia survivors had reported q day that he be and his three companIons companions compan- compan Ions were well They were sufferIng suffering suffer suffer- Ing no privations and their emergency emergency emer- emer gency camp was pItched near nea- enough the shore so that they could leave the Ice pack at will The They will be taken aboard the as I I soon as the s ship can reach them