“Everyone was so wonderful. A bellhop drove us all around, showing us this exciting town. The people at the hotel took up a collection and gave us some money. You couldn’t have better people.”
The Fredericks flew back to Elyria that same Sunday, leaving George Whitmore in the hospital for further treatment.
“The irony of it all,” Mrs. Fredericks said, “is that we still didn’t get to see Yellowstone Park.”
The main, Red Canyon scarp runs for 7 miles along Kirkwood Ridge, parallel and about three miles above the north shore of Hebgen Lake.(Montana Highway Commission)
MYSTERY—WHO GOT IT?
With the primary emergency—rescuing the injured and freeing the trapped—contained, there still remained the perplexing problem of trying to figure out, just how many were still buried under the 80-million-ton rock slide.
Early guesses put the figure in the hundreds.