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Show QUTOF WILDS Naval Airmen Emerge From Northern Woods to Enthusiastic Enthusi-astic Welcome MAT-TICK, i mt.. Jan. 11. t By The lesoclatcd ITONS. t Tho tlii" m-n-can naval balloonlsts stranded neat Hudson bay when their bag d'.-itrondcd d'.-itrondcd after a fllrrht from Kockawuv X Y.. reached this r:ill heafl tod after mushing down foni Moose I'ac-wi I'ac-wi m lory. , , T The. officer? la utenants Loulst J. Kloor:, Jr.. of New Orleans; Walter Illnton. of Buffalo, N. Y., and Stephen A. Fan-ell, vt New Tork md a corps of newspaper tqen watting . to prcet them when they entered this settlement at 2:20 p. ni Ml three offers were In excellent condition. While definite plana nave not been made, for their departure for) the east, It Id believed they will leae hre tonight. They reported no ex-j lung Incidents on their dog sled trip down from Moose Factory. LETTER TO i s n : ::. . -IlL'W l-KV'. I.'.. .!. 11 - " Ships of the three navy baloonlsts In., the Canadian wilds are recounted in a letter from Lieutenant Uutsi Kloor. Jr., written aft-r their arrival i 0.1 Moose Factory, and received hc're today by his father -J Snow was all we had to drink, the fetter said, telling of the trip to1 Moose Factory after the balloon landed. land-ed. "We lived ou two carrier pigeons . which, luckily, 1 did hot sOnd ba k vnh mOBsages. This mlsi ry l 1 for three days lost ami no signs of hope or habitation i.-. Sight. ,! . ' Friday, after bavins, followed i small river from where we first land-; 111 i! od in tho balloon. I :i- . . .1 sded , tracks in tho ice and we set off to j follow them. If we hnd not found these sled tracks wl- would not lo ' 1 i v Ing today. "W followed the tracks for at least fi j mlics. They led Into a large hike of ice at least two miles wide. After walking along for about an hottr on tho lake In the direction the tracks led yre spied a man .'I'out a mllo ahead of us. After many i U'd li -houts of distress I managed I stop l hit and got to him to tell him to ' help us find a town or some house, ; food and clothh x. ( (MM) N'OT COXT1 RSK H, "Much to my .disappointment, l found that he could 6i I'm his I native- Indian tongue but after many : ins I made him understand ih d it Ions of myself ar.d ray companions. Lieutenants Karrell and Hintoh wire; jji played OUt, The Indian led mo for, two hours through SnOw and Ice to this place, where to my Joy I found I a .-cttlement of white former traders ann Indians. Hj "After dispatching a rescue party, I for friends 1 aie ferociotisslj for about) Hl an hour to :v. Msty the craving of my j famished self. ' I never conceived when lo.-t n the woods that wc were so far north. The settlers tell us that this is tho mlldetft winter they have had in twenty j ears, so you ?ee God way with us and saved us fron death, as last year atj Hl this time the weather was twenty to thirt. degrees below zero." 018 PLANS i 1IL. Lieutenant Kloor said the Start homo would be made "about Monday. December 27, Dad'fl birthday," and 1 that he "should be in New York again j January 10th, my twenty-third birth-, 1, day." "It makes m- feel very aad to think, this incident in my life will have i I i a used you so much Worry and tl'.s- tress during tho holidays," tie added' ijaaaaJ ! "instead of enjoying yourself you . , i, ad and believed me dead, and it you H can realise how near we were to death ' and how miraculously we were, H snatched from death, you would for-' oo |