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Missing
on the mountain
Profiles
of the 65 people lost on the mountain since 1909:
1.
Aug. 14, 1909:
T.Y. Callaghan, 50, a West Seattle resident, and Joseph
W. Stevens, 30, on vacation from Trenton, N.J., began a one-day
ascent, encountered bad weather and failed to return. The next
day, searchers found only the alpenstocks and packs of the
climbers near a rock ledge, 20 yards from the summit route.
2.
Aug. 1911: Legh Osborn
Garrett,
a young man employed at the Indian Henry's tent camp, tried a
solo ascent on Success Cleaver but failed to return. After a
30-hour search, the party found only tracks.
3.
Dec. 10, 1946:
A Marine Corps C-46 plane carrying 32 mostly young recruits was
reported missing. Seven months later, climbers found the wreck
on South Tahoma Glacier. The bodies were in too dangerous a spot
to be recovered. On the plane were: Alben Cotner Robertson,
Robert Vincent Reilly, Charles Franklin Criswell, Wallace Joseph
Slonina, Leslie Ray Simmons Jr., Donald Jeff Walker, William
Donald St. Clair, Charles W. Truby, Duane Roderick Abbott, Bobby
Joe Stafford, Richard Paquette Trego, Robert A. Anderson, Joe E.
Bainter, Walter Jay Stewart, Harry Richard Turner, John Charles
Stone, Ernesto Ruiz Valdovin, Albert H. Stubblefield, Gene Louis
Vremsak, William Richard Sullivan, William Edward Wadden,
Chester E. Taube, Harry Kenneth Skinner, Harry Leonard Thompson
Jr., Gilbert Edward Watkins, Duane
Sennitt Thornton, Duane Edwin White, Lawrence Eugene
Smith, Keith Kreider Tische, Louis Allen Whitten, Buddy Edward
Snelling, Eldon Dean Todd.
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