Show WORST WV ff SK S BLIZZARD s IN U rem an HISTORY UK suffering Wf ering caused by fierce winds and drifting snows ef of heroism on part of those forced by anty idaly to brave the fury of the elements Ele meats the blizzard that has raged through eastern utah for the tile past week has been the fiercest in all history hi tho the hardships endured as a natural result of the cutting winds the drifting snows and obliterated tra trails Is and roads have been far greater than ever before kno knovs ii the only wonder is that numerous deaths ha hae e in the wako wake of the relentless icy birst that drove down from the hills and assailed man with a fierceness for which he was altogether unprepared luckily however with all the endured by those coreed by the character of their avocations avoca tons to be out of doors no fatalities have been reported if exception be made of the deaths caused by the railroad wrecks reported in another column and indirectly resultant from prevailing weather conditions this is is the consolation which is said to come with all the stressful ills of human life and human experience we are in the habit babit of cons considering deri ng ourselves lucky 1 I because we have been spared the full force otho disaster which has fallen upon others likewise like ise we may consider ourselves fortunate to have avoided the x llly looked for fatalities that corno come to men who brave tho the elements in this region of blast and snow and blizzard individual instances of buffering suffering from the seventy severity of the weather conditions are 0 to o numerous that the list would make a printed string too long ion to print some men charge in irr of stages and others taking care of individual outfits have been subjected to hardships th thit tc most of us would flee foa f oa om as front a pestilence this paper last I 1 week recited the detail details of the trying trip made by sheriff kelter nelter in the discharge of his duties in connection with the prosecution of the cattle thief george at fort duchesne many Jour journeying nevings to various po ants out of price during the past ten days have been fully or almost as exacting on haman endurance as that made by the sheriff on his famous trip the tiding chows and the pathless wild mess where hie his services were needed to 10 mete out pu justice to the most trouble fiffie eanie rattler that ever cairel this sec aten by hie his presence on monday george granthem Gran thern fore inan of the the crystal bros sheep outfit near ninemile nine mile cannon staggering guint through the blinding blizzard tumbled stumbled over the edge of a rocky ledge end and fell headlong into the unexplored depths half halt a hundred feet below lie ile 1 was hurt badly hurt and there with no help in sight eight hi h struggled with ith broken bones end and half a heart to right himself and prolong if possible the strenuous fight for ale ice which he had waged for or yea it lo 10 meet the requirements quire ments of the law of the survival of the fittest somebody hard his cry god always tempers the wind to the shorn lamb and the hapless herder was snatched from apparent acom and taken to the nearest rett settle 1 c mant wisdom might have that tre tt e injured man be taken to the near tat doctor it would have been aas ler more ore to all parties concerned especially to the sufferer tuf ferer those in charge however eclied to send to PH e far A ain they got into with I 1 r earle and the doctor responding k like to a brave man in thi th i face of tearful condi conditions dons started forth horse back to the relief relief of the maimed herder hours passed and days with no word from the doctor it was known that others bad attempted ai aL to beat beato aside sido I 1 the blizzard rJ and traverse the trails nature had hat locked up no word from the doctor monday passed and tues day ay no tidings from the tie man who had fad attempted the apparently imps alb albior ibbe for the sake of a human be ing in wednesday came any was all but gone when a returning companion of iba price physician brought tiding tidings that earie earle had peen picked up by a party which had ben ent ant a e nt out from nine mile to help him on his way to the bedside of the sufferer horses had been brought to break the trail over tho the enow snow covered paths of the mountain wilderness and while the tb 0 doctor pressed on his comparion turned back arriving here late wednesday wednesday Wed nesda y night ahn sort of thing reaches in and gets hoi hol I 1 of our hearts men and brel brethren hren dr 1 R earle is built of the material MEN are made of he ile is capable of forgetting about hn self when others need him and his service eq and he I 1 is 3 big enough to hearken to the call 0 of f the suffering alq and the distressed forgetting his own comfort aej convenience and ani boing forth to da do his duty with an in eye at luie ie to the performance of hia his truit in the face of all odds tho the great gre lt blizzard has been a severe test on the nerve and enC endurance urance of men mery and horses engaged in tho the transportation por tation of mail and passengers to and from points in eastern utah ut a 11 it la Is sah sail to have been the first time in the period of half a dozen years that tho the road to vernal has bac been baci i absolute absolutely ely impact awe fact has hus brought about a renewal of 1 d I assion a r favoring IV the rues ree tabi sl men fc of th tin i old mail coite between e a ij vernal which was abandoned 3 oara air a ir ago for the present route im pt dragoni dragon all in all III has hag alki b ca a strenuous week to fo everybody every bo jy aid the bun and generally moderated condition ia v vore ere never ne er mora mo ra el a to a people than they are oday to the of ea eastern stern utah as they emerge from the firsty f osty environment of the saver siver cst of winters and take up their labors where the ice king forced them to lay them down |