Show 1 PAN 1 1 ach u w mt 14 A t in ra 1 N lff LOST IN MOUN TA inis WEST OF heroic searching attempts of oi joe anderson who accompanied him unsuccessful since wednesday evening of last week frantic efforts are being made by searching parties sent out by the telluride power co and the sheriffs office to locate slade hancock line patrolman of the telluride power co if he is stil lalive or to find his bod body I 1 if he lost his life in performing his duty patrolling the electric lines high up in the west mountains during a blinding snow storm hope to find him alive can be considered as utterly gone and to find the body in the snow and drifts piled up to I 1 considerable height promises but little success cess before the snow under the milder temperature now prevailing has somewhat settled the searching panties are composed of men highly experienced in such dan gaious and adventurous undertakings and almost incessantly men from all over sevier millard diute piute and garfield counties are offering I 1 help i lp arid and assiz assistance tance but their services i c es cannot be accepted under present v weather eather conditions without en the lives of some more people it would be an almost suicidal attempt to go up to the heights lei gats where slade disappeared and make a search without being able to find shelter in a cabin or other well protected place because there is no possibility sivility lity of pitching tents anywhere near the place and only one cabin offers protection for those v who ho ven tuie tul e out to make that arduous search setting out to patrol the line sunday afternoon february 24 joseph L andelson An deison and slade hancock cock wele sent up on the west mountains t ai n S to locate some trouble on the richfield fillmore transmission line of the telluride power co they left richfield at four in the to make the trip to the renview ranger rn r n e station and start their loc location aaion trip aiom there up tip to continued on page eight SLADE HANCOCK LOST IN MOUNTAINS WEST OF HERE continued from page one the upper cabin of the telluride ponner gocr co located about three miles higher than the ranger station As a rule the trip to the renview ranger station is m made ade on horses but it being known that heavy snow would be encountered the patrolmen were provided with skis his and snowshoes they went up on horseback to a P point five miles this side of the red view station where camp was pitched and the two men with the caretaker of the horses passed the night in camp the weather eather was good during the night and monday INTon day morning the caretaker took the horses back to richfield and hancock and anderson continued their trip to the renview station on skis from tile the station they phoned to richfield and communication over the line being difficult the telluride co sent out two men george white and lester peterson to patrol the telephone line in order to be able to keep in constant touch with mith the two patrolmen all four men met monday night at the ranger station and while white and peterson ie turned to richfield anderson and H hancock acock st started it d c out tuesday morning orl on their trip to the upper line station about three miles above thle renview station they passed the upper station tuesday afternoon and continued about one and a half miles to the west to look over the line to fillmore returning to the station in the evening evem i n and passing the night there tj thea e weather continued to be good bad weather sets in ill wednesday wednesday morning the two men traveled back to the renview gedvil w rang ranger e r station whence they phoned to richfield informing william parks foreman of the telluride forces that so far they were not able to locate the trouble mr parks instructed the men to use their own judgment andl and to continue the search if they thought the weather would permit or to return to richfield if of the opinion that weather conditions would make their progress impossible bothi both anderson and hancock agreed to continue their investigations and so informed the richfield office in the meantime the weather had bad become threatening and snow fell but the two men went out on their trouble shooting expedition both having an admirable sense of duty especially so hancock who easily persuaded Af anderson iderson to continue their task they started towards the upper station and when the wind became stronger and the snowfall heavier they proceeded quite rapidly always keeping along the transmission line as a guide to the station after having traveled about a mile the snow storm developed into one of the worst blizzards ever experienced in this part of the country and coming out of the cottonwoods cotton woods towards the bare ridges the going became extremely difficult the two men had bad kept closely together and now anderson noticed that hancock was becoming fatigued he therefore went ahead a few feet to break the trail for hancock following him with the early fall of darkness in the mountains and the blinding blizzard it was impossible to see more than a few feet and anderson frequently waited or retraced his steps to see that his companion was following having in this way broken the trail for several maids at one time and waiting for only a few minutes anderson immediately returned to tile the place where they had parted only a few minutes before he called hancocks name as loud as he could b but u t his voice would not carry above the loar of the blizzard for some time he scouted around on either side of the tra trail tail but the heavy darkness made ac e t the ie search useless the idea struck anderson that hancock perhaps had passed him and had gone un no to the cabin and he himself exhausted from the trip crawled on all four up to the station arriving there at about in the evening hancock there An anderson derbon made a fire put three lights in the window so as to indicate the position of the cabin and again went out searching going as far as he could without lo 10 losing 51 9 sight of the lights in the cabin ta window adow returning to the cabin about ten in the evening he called up richfield and informed the office of what had bad happened at daybreak thursday morning he continued his search early thursday morning a searching party consisting of deputy sheriff carl ramsay bab ramsay george white lee parks and clinton lundburg proceeded towards the renview hedvie w ranger station the blizzard continued unabated they arrived at the ranger station too late in the afternoon to continue the trip to the upper cabin friday about noon they arrived there and spent all afternoon in searching without any success le ie turning to the cabin in the evening to stay over night saturday another heavy snow storm set in and the wind blew with such force that the men could not get out of the cabin this lay day therefore was entirely lost for the search telephone troubles still pen persisted isted the searching party requested the forest service to have the telephone line patrolled and Q D hansen david dall and ben carter went up to to look after the telephone line these three joined the other party sunday saturday afternoon H B waters general manager of the telluride power co arrived in richfield he had been attending a directors meeting of tile the company in los Ange angeles leq and after having been informed from salt lake city that hancock was missing he immediately started the trip to personally direct affairs here airplanes and DORS dogs of no use the idea had been a advanced to send airplanes to the place but experts who had been consulted stated that such an undertaking would be impossible it was then decided to use trained dogs for the search A lion flog dog owned by government trapper J W willis of panguitch and two trained spaniels Sp aniels belonging to voyle hanchett were taken up lip by grover and linden johnson but it nas as found that no results could be obtained by the dogs an and d they were sent back the searching still continues and reports wednesday noon stated that weather conditions have improved and the snow is settling which gives the searchers new hope that they will be able to find hancocks body they are especially searching in all directions around a point where the missing mans skis were found stick ling out of the snow and about fifty i feet further off where here one of the I 1 snowshoes and one of hancocks i gloves were sticking in the snow I 1 these landmarks had been discovered by anderson when he be had gone out thursday morning to continue his search for the lost companion thursday morning a party of six men lead by city marshal A 0 went up to the renview ranger station on horseback to assist in the search so far no reports came in from this party |