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...There is a boy worth knowing," declared President Hoover as he read of how 13-year-old Bryan Untiedt had saved all but five of 21 children from death-by-freezing when their school bus was marooned 36 hours in a Colorado blizzard (TIME, April 6). What impressed the President most was the way Bryan had stripped off his own clothes to wrap around his shivering schoolmates; how he had kept the youngsters from falling into a frozen sleep. Last week Bryan lay in a hospital bed at Lamar, Colo, painfully recovering from frozen hands and feet (they will...
After 24 hours Carl Miller put Bryan Untiedt, 13, the oldest boy in the bus, in charge. "Don't let anyone go to sleep," he said, and plunged out to walk for help...
...child was already dead. Two more died presently. Their bodies slid down to the lurched rear of the bus. The rest grew hysterical, broke a window. Bryan Untiedt kept them awake, gave them all his clothing but his shirt and overalls...
After 30 hours, Bryan Untiedt's father who had been tramping the roads all day, found the bus. All the children had collapsed. Father Untiedt got them to the nearest farm, only three-quarters of a mile away. In a drift three miles away was found Carl Miller's corpse. Two more of the children died that night. Bryan Untiedt's eight-year-old brother Orlo and the driver's daughter Mary. All the rest had pneumonia. Both Bryan Untiedt's arms and both his legs looked as though they must be amputated...
Survivors of the tragedy were taken to a hospital at Lamar. Although snug in their warm beds, many a frightened scream escaped them in the night as the children, fast asleep, dreamed of the terrifying hours in the bleak bus...