Show lindan TELLS or nis fits experience when at eckers hill at sunday night we a received a telephone call reporting that the lost plant plane had been located about three quarters of a mile north of the summit beacon W we 0 immediately rushed to Rasmus sons a ran inn to see if they had transportation then we went to the top of the summit for the purpose of finding the plane and rescuing the victims upon reaching me summit I 1 noticed that there was about thirty young follows fellows and skiers on the trail ahead of me the trail was packed and it was quite easy climbing the hill to the beacon I 1 rushed rs cs much as I 1 could and finally reached the leading group within yards from the spot where the plane was later found the leading group consisted of jim prank frank rn moisson and some from ecker hill darkness was beginning to set in and the party as a hole bhole decided to return to lo the beacon and wait tor for further information from tho the airport when we reached the beacon the pilot that had sighted the plane from the air was there with many followers to help find the plane on toot foot we slowly followed him until vc ie reached the end or 0 the te trail we tied had followed before the pilot went on along the ridge of the hill bill tor for another fifty yards he paused a moment tor for a rest then he announced that the plane should be within ICI ac I 1 yards down the west slope of the hill jim Bas Raa musson ed berring and I 1 started dc n the hill in the direction the pilot I 1 had pointed frank faank followed i us lor for a short distance then took another trail in order to comb the hillside ed berring and I 1 crawled tor for a way because the snow was too deep to walk in jim and ed barring paused im a moment for a rest and I 1 rushed on a ahead with the desire to he be the first to see the plane on foot it was dark now but the moon was quite bright making the trees and bushes easy tor for us to see sec when I 1 got a I 1 little ittle way ahead of the others I 1 noticed a large form forin towering up between two let large a pine trees As I 1 got closer to it I 1 distinguished tha body and tall of the plane As soon as I 1 was sure that this was the plane I 1 yelled here she Is the yell was repeated first by jim and t then ben by prank frank here mr pehrson shows a diagram giving the position of the rest ot of the party who was with him at the time he located the lost plane erl ed frank immediately rushed to the side of the plane and helped jim keep the crowd back until the officials came to take charge they immediately cut a hole in the top of the plane through which the victims were removed it was a terrible sight when the bodies were being removed some were armless legless and even headless all of the victims were in a heap in the f front of 1 the plane the girl stewardess was about the least mangled of any As the bodies were being removed men volunteered to pack them to the bobsled driven by everst dahl at the beacon one or of the pilots was so entirely covered by the machinery of the plane that it took the men till two the next day to completely remove him from the tha wreckage I 1 wanted a from the wreckage a gle which I 1 get but the memory of the terrible sight that I 1 saw will remain with ith me forever LINDEN PEHRSON |