Northwest History. Aviation 8. Rescue & Searching Parties, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1928
• Subjects: Russell Merrill; Seward; Alaska; file expedition; Endicott mountains; Point Barrow; dying; Kotzebue; snow blindness; lack of food; Portland; Ore; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Aviation; Pacific; Barrow
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/85435

Rescued Flyer Is Dying: Russell Merrill, Formerly Of Portland, Is Very Low. RESCUED FLYER IS DYING. Russell Merrill. Formerly of Portland, Is Very Low. SEWARD, Alaska, June 26. (/P)--It was reported here today that Russell H. Merrill, pilot who was lost for nine days without food when two planes bearing a film expedition were forced down between the Endicott mountains and Point Barrow, was dying at Kotzebue, where he was taken for treatment. Merrill, after having set out no foot for Point Barrow from an isolated lake in the interior upon whose ice his plane had landed, was discovered groping his way through the snow, suffering from snow blindness, exposure and lack of food. His home was formerly at Portland, Ore.