Show Women Meet Death ea eaOn On Mountain Peak Cold Made it Impossible for Them To Cling to Perch SANTA FE N. N M. M Deaths M.-Deaths Deaths of two mountain climbers were ascribed to biting cold which made it impossible impossible impossible sible for them to cling to an ice- ice glazed perch long enough for their guide to summon help Bodies of the pair pair Miss Miss Mildred Hartig 25 of Evansville I Ind Irid d. d and Miss Frances B. B Krauss 34 of Bal Baltimore al- al were were recovered on pre precipitous tous North Truchas peak in the Sangre de Cristo range north of I here The guide Sam Martin of Truchas village said attempts to rescue Miss Krauss who slipped in descending descending descending de- de the foot mountain led to the double tragedy The accident h happened as the women turned homeward on a weekend weekend weekend week week- end outing from the Los Alamos atomic project Both worked there thereas as Atomic Energy commission sec sec- Martin said Miss Krauss lost her footing and injured her head and leg in a foot tumble As the guide and Miss Hartig sought means to get her back on safe ground she slid farther down the snow-covered snow slope Both women were unable to climb back to safety Martin related and clutched a small rock above a ravine ravine ravine ra ra- ra- ra vine as he clambered up and around the peak and descended to their horses for a rope Thereafter Martin said while he tri tried triad d vainly to reach them from above and below the women wept and acid begged piteously for him to please do something were we're freezing freezing freezing freez freez- ing to death Meanwhile darkness and dropping dropping dropping drop drop- ping temperature froze the mountainside mountainside mountainside moun moun- glassy slick and Martin was un ble to reach them Near midnight Martin went for help State police answering his summons helped Martin find the broken bodies |