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Show IAITOLSTS ARE RESCUED Easterners Almost Famished When Found in Mountains. FLAGSTAFF. Ariz., Dec. 20 The searching party which left here yesterday yester-day afternoon to locate the lost transcontinental trans-continental automobilists, Perry Me-gargcl Me-gargcl of New Fork and David F. Fas-sett Fas-sett of Lansing Mich, found them late last night In a desperate condition, snowed In. without food or gasoline, within three miles from town, near a deep pass In the mountains In a few hours longer they would have perished from the bitter fold. Roth men suffered from the cold, but had managed to save- themselves being frozen to death by use of gasoline to build a lire. Smoke from this lire led the rescuers to the spot. By a mere chance a squirrel had been shot during the day ynd cooked over their fire. It "was their first food for over thirty-six hours. While searching for the transcontinental trans-continental automobilists the searching parly came across (he frozen body of a logger named Thomas Smith, ho hud been lost for two daj e The automobile was towed into town late last night and will leave Wednesday Wednes-day or Thursday, providing the n (v sufficiently recovers from their long ex- posur.e |