Show OIES DIES IN SNOW SM ON MOUNTAIN JOHN MORRELL GAUGHT IN BLIZZARD BELOW BLUE SPRING AND IS FROZEN TO DEATH friday morning last startling word was wan received over the phone from blue spring to the effect that john morrell who has bee been employed by the state for two or ahr three e years care to attend to the fish batch hatchery r ast at that place left there early thursday to go to the sevy ranch aae nine miles away to get his mail and up to the time of phoning had failed to return the message came fr from his wife who has spent the winter with her husband at blue mrs morrell explained over the phone that her husband had left on horseback and was as only able to get bout about a mite mile and a quarter from the spring when he was compelled to leave eave the hor seand make his way to devys ranch on snow shoes she also stated that she got a message menage over the phone from the sevy ranch at 2 0 lock thursday afternoon that he cas was starting on his way back and bouls boull likely reach home about 9 that evening in the meantime a terrible blizzard sprang up and the atmosphere was as filled with drifting snow the wind mind being extremely cold during all of the afternoon mrs morrell watched anxiously for her husband and kept up a wakeful alt all thursday night but her husband did not return in her anxiety she got with parowan carowan over the private phone that leads from blue spring the phone connection to panguitch having become disabled As soon as an friends here were informed of mr morrell being missing mining a telephone message was sent over the western union via salt lake city marysvale Marys Mary vale scale and on to panguitch informing the people of that city of the startling news citizens here who ho are familiar with the blue spring country and knowing of the the terrible blizzard hl izzard that was raging had but little hopes that the man could possibly survive the ordeal of facing that powerful and cold wind mind for nine miles on his homeward jounney A posse ol 01 me men left friday night for the foot of the mountain to break track as far as was wan Po possible mable after which another posse followed on snow shoes and succeeded in getting over the mountain during the mean time men from panguitch were also out looking for the missing man two aft 0 panguitch men fo found n d the unfortunate victim within yards ard of a ranch known as an Pr princes arinea inea and found the body lying face downward as though mr morrell morrel had bad struggled valiantly against the cold wind until atte utterly aly exhausted men man from and also pang aitch made their way to blue spring to the relief of mrs mortal morrel and her five little children sleds were improvised pro and the lady and children along with the body of mr morrel were taken to panguitch and from there to junction the home of the family mrs morrell although being snow bound at the springs and had no other communication than with par owan kept up bravely and not until saturday morning did she intimate that she had lost hope of finding her bar husband alive at that time her main anxiety was that the body of her husband be found it is understood der stood that a twelve year old daughter who was with her became hysterical and hard to control over the awful fate of her father and this coupled with the terrible anxiety for her husband was an ordeal that mrs mra morrell passed through that but few women could withstand the heartfelt sympathy of every one in parowan carowan goes out to the wife and children of mr morrell in thir their terrible loss |