Fairbanks, Alaska, Feb. 8—Balto, the leader of Gunnar Kasson’s team of Siberian wolves and canine hero in the recent relay race form Nena to Nome with 300,000 units of diphtheria anti-toxin is dead, says a report received today from Nome.
The report added that Balto and the majority of Kasson’s prize team had died from frozen lungs as the result of struggling 60 miles from Bluff to Nome for 7 ½ hours in a blinding blizzard that set the thermometer down to 35 degrees below zero.
From the front page of The Concord Times, Monday, Feb. 9, 1925
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