| Summary: | Two Alaska Women Missing: Dog Teams To Search Frozen Tundra -- Believed To Have Perished. TWO ALASKA WOMEN MISSING Dog Team to search Frozen Tundra -- Believed to Have Perished. Holy Cross, Alaska, March 8. (/P) -- With the last dog team in this western Alaska village, Alphonse Demientieff left Holy Cross today in search of two women, reported missing on the frozen tundra of a treacherous portage between the Yukon and the Kuskokwim rivers, southwest of here. Mrs. E. Forrest, wife of a former superintendent of the bureau of education in Indian schools, and Miss B. Leake, a nurse at the Akiak government hospital, left Bethel, 100 miles southwest of here, for Holy Cross on February 27. They have not been heard from since. The journey is considered one of the most dangerous in Alaska, because one must cross many large lakes and 50 miles of shelterless, wind-swept country. Northerly winds of high velocity with prevailingly low temperatures during the last five days added to fears for the safety of the women. It was feared that the women, who were driving a team of nine huskies, lost the trail and perished in the unmarked wastes. Demientieff started the search as soon as word was received here that the women were missing. He will pick up additional dog teams and earchers on the way and concentrate on the portage between Coscogamute on the Kuskokwim river and Pimute on the Yukon river.
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