MISSING PERSON

Florida Senior Disappears on Mount Washington Summit

William Davis, 79, was last seen taking a cog railway up the mountainside on Wednesday.

A senior citizen from Florida disappeared Wednesday while en route to the peak of Mount Washington, authorities say. William Davis, 79, was last seen taking a train on the Mount Washington Cog Railway, which ascends the New Hampshire mountainside. Davis, a native of Jacksonville, was spotted on the train’s observation deck around 3:20 p.m. on Wednesday. Around 6 p.m., park officials notified New Hampshire Fish and Game that Jackson was missing and said they believed he had wandered off the summit. The train ride up the mountain is approximately an hour long, and passengers typically disembark to explore for another hour before taking another train down. A park employee spoke with Davis on the phone that evening and said he seemed to be lost but could clearly describe his location and was likely still near the summit. Davis stopped answering his phone around an hour later. Fish and Game launched a search Wednesday evening, employing drones to scan the area while rescuers searched the grounds on foot. However, heavy fog in the region put the search on pause for parts of Wednesday and Thursday. The search resumed Friday morning, but there have been no signs of Davis.