| Show TRIO NEAR DEATH IN CAVE DISCO DISCOVERY VERY discovering an entirely new series of caverns in the famous ozark mountain caves W B bolton and two companions compani ons of monett missouri all but lost their lives when they were caught in a labyrinth of passages in the mountainside W TV 8 r bolton boiton n i the three re making a casual trip through the caves in the course of it one of the party noticed a small opening in the roof of a cavern all three crawled up through the hole they found they were in a series of caves with passages branching in all directions in their excitement they forgot to mark the spot where they entered they did not realize their predicament until the candles they carried to warn of foul air as well as provide light began to run low but before the last candle flick out the men knew for a certainty that they were lost one opening after another turned out to be just a hole in the rocks taking a single flashlight they had brought along the three scrambled from one vault to another we kept this up for seven hours and a half bolton bollon said all the time searching desperately for a way out As a cave explorer I 1 had seen to it before we started that the batteries in ray my flashlight were fresh As it turned out that precaution was all that saved us there was small chance for rescue because no one knew of the r c istance of f the its we were in ai ugh they emerged from the tha caverns exhausted none of the three suffered any ill effects |
