Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1921 Page: 2 of 8
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TELLSJF TRIP
Thrilling Story of the Adventure
of the Balloonists Who Were
Lost in Wilds of Canada.
KREMOUL^
DEATH NEAR WHEN RESCUED
Lost to the World 29 Days in All—
Wandered Four Days in the Woods
With Nothing to Eeat Except the
Pigeons They Had With Them.
Muttlce, Ont.—After being lost to
the world for 20 days, four of which
were spent wunderlng In the woods,
the three navy balloonists, Lleuts.
FpTell, Hinton and Kloor, arrived
het ■. Lieut. Farrell told the following
story of their adventures:
Lieut. Farrell's story of the flight
and wanderings of the trio begins with
the morning hours In Rockaway naval
air station on December 13 and goes
on through, the flight, the landing, and
up to the meeting with the Indian at
Moose Factory who saved their lives.
"It was just an ordinary balloon
hop," Farrell began. "It wus for train-
ing. Hinton told me after we left
that the gas In the balloon wus ten
days old, stale and Impure.
"Hinton called me up at about twen-
ty minutes to 12 (December 13) and
told me I could come on flight If 1
wanted to. No special orders are
needed. We Just got permission from
Commander Cummings of the post
and Executive Officer Douglas.
"I am senior officer o? the tliree,
but Kloor was In command of the
flight, as he is a balloon officer and 1
am a gunnery officer. I have been in
aviation for three years and have
flown In every kind of aircraft. We
left at 1 p. m.
Left With Four Pigeons.
"We had four pigeons; we let the
first one go with a message for the
Brooklyn navy yard.
"Hinton and Kloor had heavy un-
derwear and uniforms under their fly-
ing suits. I had only the underwear
and the flying suit. I had a grip with
my uniform and some other things in
it. We had eight sandwiches and two
thermos bottles of hot coft'ee. None
of the underwear was electrically
heated.
"We expected to land next morn-
ing in upper New York state. We had
no maps or charts except a railroad
map of the Canadian Quebec Central
line, which I bought. We had three
chances to land before we did. \Ve did
stop once at Wells, N. Y.
"We made fast to a tree near a
light. It was in a window of a farm-
house. A man came along and we
asked him where we were. He told
us, but he could not say what big town
we were near.
Kloor Game to Go On.
"We cast loose and went up again.
It rained and blew during the night.
We could have landed at Ottawa at
11 p. m. We saw the lights of a big
city. But Kloor is just a kid and he
was enthusiastic about a long flight.
We all agreed that we ought to do a
decent flight. There had been rain
from Wells on.
"The wind was north by west. That
night It blew hard and rained. There
was no sign of civilization. But we
thought It would be all right in the
morning. At daylight we saw only for-
ests. The rain had calmed down.
There were low clouds and fog.
"The rain stopped at 8 a. m. (De-
cember 14). We ate all our food dur-
ing the night. We had two packages
of cigarettes and one box of matches,
but you cannot smoke in a hydrogen
balloon. We realized we were in bad
that morning."
Explains Flying Technique.
Here Farrell paused to give a brief
explanation of the technique of bal-
teffh flyln~.
"You have a lot of expendable bal-
last," he said. "We had twenty-one
sandbags weighing thirty pounds
apiece. At first the balloon rises with
all the cargo. Then It begins coming
down as the gas deteriorates. When
you are down too low you throw out ti
sandbag and that sends you up again.
"When all the ballast is gone you
go up for the last time and have to
come down as soon as the gas begins
to weaken.
"Our twenty-first b g went over that
morning. After that we had to throw
out equipment to keep up. We hauled
in the drag rope which is used in
making landings and cut it Into sev
eral pieces. We used each piece as
ballast. It was not very lpng before-
the last piece went over the side.
At 11 a. m. the sun came out and
heated up the gas in the balloon:
'hat makes the gas expand and sends
Jie balloon up.
"We were fighting to keep in the
ilr. Ail we saw was trees, lakes, and
-now. It was about 1:30 p. m. tha'
jve saw a shack in the woods. At
•east we thought It was a shack. We
were In doubt about this until we
heard a dog bark.
"I took bearings with the compass
on the shack and the place where the
dog barked. We decided to land. We
were in low clouds about 1,000 feet
high. The wind was north by west,
the sun had been heating up our hag
and we began to go up. Wo reached
0,500 feet. It takes a long time to go
from that height.
Make a Bad Landing.
"The clouds ' were below us and
above us. We got down about two
o'clock. It was a bad landing and we
were pretty badly shaken up. We
were not hurt or thrown out, but the
basket was smashed against the
ground.
'The balloon caught between the
trees. We had taken the plgeon3 Into
the basket to protect them from the
landing. Usually they ride In a cage
tied outside of the basket. The weath-
er was clear and nearly freezing.
"All three of us stepped out of the
basket In our flying clothes. I took
the grip. We were soaking wet. Kloor
took the pigeon cage. We started off
at a terrific pace to get where the
dog barked. We did not stop to In-
spect the balloon. From the bearings
I took In the balloon we figured the
dog to be south by east from us.
Start on Long Trek.
"We started through the forest on
that line. I carried my grip for one
day. We went on until dark and
made a tire. I smoked two cigarettes
while we rested; so did Kloor. Hin-
ton did not smoke.
"We did not eat that day; we car-
ried the pigeons until the next day.
There was some snow on the ground,
to we got a lot of pine brush to lie
on and I picked a lot of rotten wood
with my penknife. We had no fire-
arms—only the knife and the box of
matches.
"Hinton went on a little to find a
stream. While he was gone he laid
off his flying suit to make better head-
way and he could not find it on his
way back.
"That night I slept next to Hinton.
He was next to the fire. I was on the
outside. Kloor lay off to one side and
slept. We got on tine together in the
forest. Hinton and I didn't sleep.
We got up at daylight.
They Eat First Pigeon.
"We ate a pigeon that morning, De-
cember 15. We cleaned a pigeon and
cooked it. We divided it in three
parts, a couple of mouthfuls apiece.
We drank water out of moose tracks
and holes in the ground. That is
what probably made me sick the next
day. We started off, I carrying my
grip.
"We came to a creek that day (the
Indians call this stream the Nesco-
haga). Hinton was leading and kept
moving too far to the west.
"I proposed to him to go southeast.
In 30 minutes we got to the creek,
which was not frozen over, so we had
to follow the bank. We camped again
in good shape. I, for one, was not
very hungry, but we were cold when
we stopped walking.
"We had made a flre and rested at
noon, but we did not eat in order to
conserve food. We " argued .about
where we were. I figured it some-
where in the woods In Canada, but
wasn't sure.
How They Were Garbed.
"At that time I was still in my
flying suit, Hinton in uniform and
Kloor in uniform and flying suit. We
all wore flying boots. My grip kept
getting foul of trees, so I threw It
away at ten o'clock, but took care to
put it In a tree. Before that I got
my good English shoes out of the grip
and put them on and threw away my
flying boots, which were pretty near
gone.
t'l did not make more than four
miles the first day nor more than sev-
en or eight the second day. Our night
camp was on the creek. We did not
eat. During the day we ail nibWed
a bit of a kind of moss we found grow-
ing around.
"We were not cheerful. We began
to dread that this dog barking prop-
osition was a kind of phoney. There
were so many noises. I figure now It
was a wolf barking. We saw a lot of
wolf tracks.
Youngest Flyer Prays.
"Kloor told us he.had been praying
—not out loud, but Just to himself.
I'm not much on religion; I didn t
pray. No more than I made a propo-
sition they should dine off me.
"Hinton and I discussed our coursc
while Kloor was praying. We had to
admit we were in a pretty serious jam
and felt pretty blue. But when we
quit we had a hunch that the third
day was going to be lucky.
"We ate the second pigeon and killed
the other one the morning of the third
4ay—December 16- Kloor put |the
dead pigeon in his pocket. We did this
to do away with the cage.
"During the night Hinton and Kloor
sot their feet in the ftre. Now their
flying shoes were burned and they had
to throw them away and walk in unl
form boots. My shoes were In th<
best shape.
Hikers Growing Weak.
"We were all growing weak and fel
a lot in holes and over trees. Hinton
was very weak. I felt like vomiting.
Hinton was nauseated, his stomach
was very bad, but our heads were as
clear as they are right now.
"If we had had a definite object we
could have gone fifty or a hundred
miles without so much distress. We
saw so much of the same sort of
woods that It appeared we were not
going anywhere. But we were not
going in circles because we were
steered by the compass zigzagging
through the wood. That counted
against us.
"I began to lag behind pretty much
and Hinton suggested that I take off
my flying suit. I did, and walked in
my underclothing tlie rest of the trip.
"Hinton wrapped my suit around him
as a sort of blanket. Just before noon
I hud a nasty fall over a tree trunk
into a hole three feet deep. I was
bruised and scratched but I got up
alone.
Hunch Fails to Help OuL
"We didn't eat at noon and made
flre and wanned up and started off
agaiu all together. We were pretty
blue when we camped the third night.
Our hunch about I he third being the
lucky day flivvered.
"Hinton said, 'Let's write some let-
ters nnd put them In our pockets," but
I said, 'No, we'll have plenty of time
to do that.'
"Hinton could hardly hold his head
up. It was very cold and It sure was
our worst night. We slept again with
Hinton near the fire and me on the
outside. I had the flying suit on, but
it was too cold to lie still, and I
would get up often.
"When I did Hinton did too, and
we would both sit near the fire for a
while. Kloor slept fine, almost In the
fire. He kept getting his feet in the
fire and we would have to pull them
out.
"Next morning we kidded the kid—
that's what we called Kloor—and told
him he had been hogging the flre.
Hinton had the matches, because he
knows how to light a fire. We were
careful with the matches. We would
go stiff when It took Hinton two
matches to get the fire going.
Trio in Bad Shape.
"Kloor had lots of pep after his
night's sleep and Hinton was in bad
shape. I was a bit better off than
Hintou, but not much. We started off
without food along the bank of the
creek. I had a hunch that night might
have frozen up the creek and I left
them to go down and try it out."
The distance covered that afternoon
was not more than three miles. Next
day (Thursday) almost the same story
was repeated at nightfall, their dis-
tance from the "hypothetical" village
being still as undetermined as when
they made their landing.
Friday proved to be the lucky day.
In the morning Tom Marks, a Cree
Indian trapper, who was inspecting
his traps on the outskirts of the set-
tlement of Moose Factory, an Island
in the bottom of James bay, noticed
tracks which lie judged to have been
made by three white men. His curi-
osity getting the better of the native
Indian timidity in the presence of the
unusual, Marks followed up the tracks
until early in the afternoon ite came
upon the three balloonists.
Kloor's Story of Trip.
"The first days out were the worst,"
said Lieutenant Kloor, describing their
experiences. "We had practiced walk-
ing with snowshoes at Moose Factory
while we were there and thought we
were experts with them, but after go-
ing a day on the trail changed our
minds. It was quite stormy, too, and
the first week we were out we en-
countered three severe blizzards.
"On .Sunday a week ago it became
so bad we were compelled to retrace
our steps for more than a mile. We
also found that the dogs we had with
us were Inadequate for the load we
were carrying and had to seud back
for more. The weather, however, was
not very cold. We had lots of inoose
meat to eat and I think we are all
feeling fine."
"What scientific values to be de-
rived from your trip?" was asked.
"The main scientific fact demon-
strated," replied Kloor, *'is that a
balloon of 35,000 cubic feet capacity j
can remain in the air for more than
twelve hours. We were in the air |
for twenty-five hours and could have j
remained there longer. Further than |
that 1 think nothing ought to be said j
until we report to our superiors."
Dogs Hail the Arrival.
Kloor. a blue-eyed, ruddy young fel- j
low who looked to be in the pink of
condition, was the first to arrive. He
came whirling around the bend of the
Missanaibi into the town, riding on
the dog sled, with Sam Salnsbury,
Toronto explorer, who had gone to
meet him.
The howling of huskies tethered be-
fore Indian huts here was the first
warning of the party's approach. A
moment later Kloor's sled came over
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