Show BRAVE I HEARTS SCALE PEAKS I II TO riND FIND DEAD I I I Searching Parties Panties Seek to Relocate Body of Agnes Vaille VaHle Frozen on Longs Long's Peak Also Companion CompanionI I OGDEN Jan 14 Miss Miss Agnes W. W Vaille who was was frozen to death in a storm on Longs Long's peak in Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado has a sister- sister in Ogden She is Mrs Otis Weeks wife of the division engineer of the Southern Pacific company Mrs and Mr Weeks departed for Denver last night ESTES ST S R I olo o rn Jan Jn 14 TI Three ree search searching ng p parties rUes including ding state r rangers set set setout out at da dawn to today today today to- to day to scale Longs Long's Peak two of ot them to hunt for the body of or Herbert Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert Sortland employee of Longs Long's Peak Inn while the third will at attempt attempt attempt at- at tempt to relocate and remove to I the timberline zone the frozen form of or Miss Agnes Vaille who perished in the arctic altitude Monday All hope of Sortland a member of or the original rescue party that went in search of Miss Vaille was surrendered last night when searching parties put in at timberlIne timberline timberline timber- timber line for the night They reported that a human being could not live for twenty-four twenty hours in the subzero subzero subzero sub sub- zero weather while a strong gale swept clouds of snow and sleet I across the Jagged peaks which i silhouetted against a leaden winter winter win win- win j ter tel sky stood out like white-capped white i sentinels BODY BELIEVED HIDDEN I IThe The searchers planned today to to spread out like fan-like in their Journey Jour I ney through the snow-capped snow passages passages passages pass pass- ages of the peak in their hunt for fOJ Sortland As the stout-hearted stout men set out In the face of a bitI bitter bit bit- ter tel cold and bitting blizzard bUzzard grizzled grizzled griz griz- I pioneers o. o of the mountains shook their heads in doubt Only I failure could meet the enterprise they said pointing out that the body of pr th the m man n probably would be covered covered cov coy ered with several feet of or drifted snow Not until the warm sun of spring comes these men of the mountains said would the bO body of Sortland be found The group assigned to recover the body of Miss Vaille Value had a task no noless noless noless less difficult Though they know the trail which leads to the spot I Continued on page 5 5 1 BRAVE HEARTS HEARTS- SCALE PEAKS TO FIND DEAD I Continued from page 1 1 1 where she was frozen to death the peak peal pall bearers themselves feared that they might not be able to descend descend descend des des- to to the timberline with the body if It the weather did not moderate mod mod- erate WILD ANIMALS FEARED To descend the precipice punctured punctured punctured with treacherous rous footfalls is isa isa isa a task to try the heart of man in more favorable weather the old oM settlers declared while the attempt I to descend carrying the the body of Miss Value would be a task that would all but sear the soul of at a man But the searchers were n not notto notto t tto to be daunted They pointed out that unless her body was removed to the timberline it might fall prey I Ito I to prowling mountain lions or wild I cats that thit make their homes in that that frozen field Friends of at the family today pointed point point- ed to the queer to turn of fate which sent Miss Vaille wh wild was secretary of the Denver chamber of commerce commerce commerce com com- comI I merce to death in th the frozen fastness fastness fast fast- ness feet Ceet above sea level while her father F. F O. O Vaille was vacationing on the swept sun-swept shores of ot i Honolulu Mr Vaille is a retired re retired re- re tir tired d Denver millionaire Records available today showed that Miss aVillo was the fourth to meet tragic de death th on Longs Long's peak THREE OTHERS VICTIMS The death of ot Miss 1 Carrie J J. J Welton Welton Wel- Wel ton a New E Englander glander forty years ago parallels the fate tate of Miss Vaille Value Miss Welton had scaled the peak but bec became me exhausted in the zero sub-zero temperature during the descent Her guide sought Bought aid but death arrived first j i On September 16 the body of at I Gregory Aubuchon 18 was found at the base of the peak b by forest rangers after after a hunt of ot two months He had tried to climb the peak peale While standing near the huge stone cairn that marks the summit of the mountain J. J E E. Kitts of Greeley Colo was Instantly killed by a bolt of lightning At the same time J. J E E. Bullas of Topeka lan Jan was stunned into unconsciousness unconsciousness unconsciousness and his shoes torn from his feet Barefooted he picked his way down to th the timberline and notified notified notified noti noti- fied rangers of the death of ot his companion That was on August 1 1922 In the same month a year ear later Miss Ethel Ridenour of ot Kansas City was struck by lightning She re recovered recovered re- re covered although her face was badly torn by the stroke |