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Show Lost Plane Cabin Found Tuesday By Searchers Word came out of Alpine Wednesday Wednes-day that the cabin of the Western Air Express plane had been located north of Lake Hardy peak 1000 feet below the ridge on which the ship crashed. None of the bodies had been found but it was expected that th- snow filled cabin would give up this secret of the tragedy. The searchers dug the snow from the entire left side of the cabin from the rear of the baggage department de-partment to the back of the pilot's seat, recovering 204 pounds of mail, 16 of it registered, and nine pieces of baggage, all that was carried on the plane. Eight sacks of mail were intact. The findings include 90 per cent of the plane's entire cargo. It had not been determined late Tuesday whether the tail of the plane was attached to the cabin, but members of the searching party expressed ex-pressed belief it was not. The butt of the left wing was attached to the cabin, but the right wing and cockpit cock-pit were missing. Eastman pointed out the danger of rock slides, and said no attempt to remove the bodies would be made until work on the cliffs was discontinued. discon-tinued. He identified all baggage recovered as part of the plane's cargo. car-go. Reports said the first sign of the cabin was discovered by W. C. Olson, Ol-son, forest ranger, while posting "keep out" signs in the canyon Monday Mon-day night. The ranger picked up a piece of the fusilage and reported it. Tuesday morning Eastman led a party of C C C workers to the bottom bot-tom of the canyon and uncovered more of it. Wednesday the cabin was nearly all uncovered. Eastman was unable to determine whether the cabin, biggest section of the plane found to darte, was carried car-ried to the bottom of the canyon by a slide or crashed there the night of the accident. A windlass and winch had been prepared and plans were being made Wednesday to hoist the cabin to the top of the canyon rim. |
