| Summary: | Fear Third Dead On Mt. M'Kinley. FEAR THIRD DEAD ON MT. M'KINLEY FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 17. (/P) —High on the snowy slopes of Mount McKinley today rested the remains of two members of the ill-starred Allen Carpe scientific expedition, while a other man was feared lost in the neighboring forests and still another was in a hospital here. Flown here late yesterday by a cuing plane, E. P. Beckwith, of New York, related how members of the Leik-Lindley party reached his Muldrow glacier camp, telling of disaster which had overtaken Carpe, 36, the leader, of New York, and Theodore Koven, 28, of Jersey City. They had both fallen into crevasses high on the mountainside. Beckwith, ill himself with a high fever, was brought here by Pilot Jerry Jones, who flew to the mountain to rescue the surviving members of the expedition. Climbs From Crevasse. On the way there and on the flight back, search was made from the air for Nicholas Spadevecckia, of New York, who left the Muldow glacier camp nine days ago to return here. The four members of the Leik-Lindley expedition, who had successfully reached both summits of the 20,300- foot mountain, the highest on the continent, came upon Koven's body on the upper Muldow glacier, he said. He had apparently fallen into a crevasse but had pulled himself out, only to die of injuries and exposure. Carpe's body was not seen, but the party was convinced'he too had fallen into a crevasse and was lost, probably about the 8th of the month. Meanwhile, after Beckwith was taken from the Muldrow camp, the fifth member of the Carpe expedition, Percy T. Olton Jr., of New York, was left there and with Mount McKinley park rangers will search for Spadevecckia, Beckwith said.
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