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Show CA!J1T1 Lineman Uses a Tele, phone to Call For Aid at a Distance Kllensl.urg, War-h., Doc 31. Man'3 courage end the latest devices of mechanical science battled pictur-esqtirly pictur-esqtirly for the life of a telephone lineman who was buried In a snow. I ?llde on the Cascade mountains yesterday. yes-terday. The avalanche carried its victim, J. C. Hutchmson, 2in feet down th incline and burled him under several fert of snow. Hutchinson found himself him-self close to a telephone polo. With its aid. ho wax able to drag himself upward through the snow till ho reached daylight. Thru he cut in on the telephone wire and with his pocket telephone set, called Ole Elum . Tho telephone company appealed to the railroad and telegraph companies com-panies for nid and a freight train crew at Martin was ordered to cut an engine loose and r.iu a rcfccuo party par-ty to the scene. Tbo rescuers located locat-ed Hutchinson. 3(0 "fef-t auove them with a precipitous bank of snow between. be-tween. Finding they could not reach the man, the railroad men sent back for a party of Western I'nlon linemen line-men who were repairing a cable not far away. A swinging s-al used by linemen in w-orl.'ing along suspended cables was brought ont. Startlnx a quarter of a mile av ay, two linemen slowlv pullcil themselves along I he telephone cable ca-ble toward tho Imperiled man. Their Journev up a steep incline, necessitating a halt at every telephone tele-phone pole, was a tedious one and fraught with zrent danger in the frozen atrao3phf re. Finally, after ho had ben imprisoned three hours or more, llutch'nron was ren?hed. Tho rescuers found him fro::en to the pole. It was with great difficulty that the suffering mnn vas released and place;! in the cable seat Hutchinson was tnkon to Ole Elum hospital, where It was reported that cne arm was badly frown and that probably he would be crippled for life. |