Bodies of Five Fliers Brought Down Mountain
BEDFORD, Feb. 4 (Special) – Bodies of five army airmen, killed in the crash of their plane on the Peaks of Otter Tuesday night, were brought into Bedford early this morning after a tortuous struggle over the steep, icy mountainside by a party of some 30 men from Bedford and nearby.
The party headed by H. F. Turner; chief of the local volunteer fire department, and Major George P. Kaine and Captain Murray B. Hall, army officers sent here after the crash, required 12 hours for the trip, arriving in town about 4 a.m. More snow falling yesterday retarded the progress of the rescuers, who hacked their way three miles up the mountainside from the home of Frank Dooley, highest on that face of the Sharp Top peak, and brought down the charred bodies on stretchers.
The bodies remained at a local funeral home awaiting army orders for their disposition.
