Show 9 CLOSE CALL TO DEATH mr caleb durt burt son of sir mr and sirs mrs D P burt ot of this city and a student at the high school will live jiro a long ions time before he forgets the experience he passed through last sunday and as his mind gradually recalls the events of 0 the day the tact fact will become more firmly fixed in his remembrance that he had a call so close to death that it was a matter of splitting hairs to determine just where the dividing line was as sir mr burt and a number of companions started out in the afternoon alter noon for a stroll stroll up on the mountainside following a custom of their younger days in taking an easter climb on the hill in some manner the party became separated and sir fr burt found himself alone although ho he is unable to remember when the separation oc currA and neither does he remember much of what happened after but he came staggering into the yard of sirs mrs sorena serena hansen living north of town between seven and eight in the evening in a dazed condition with his face be spattered with blood and unable to give any account of himself whatever ile he could not even tell where he was but his bis features were recognized by sirs mrs hansen and she immediately telephoned his folks and then hitched up a buggy and brought the young man home ills parents could get no account of what had happened that evening but next morning he was able to remember fragments of what had befallen him on the day previous ile he stated that he remembered finding himself lying in a heap at the foot of a jagged cliff and his body ached while his strength seemed to he be gone ho he also recalls having shouted tor for help but his hia companions were nowhere to be found in some manner he be pulled himself up to mako make his bis way down although he did nat not realize that ji 0 ras on the t an nd d in n getting t ang up upon n his feet imd and looking down lie he als discovered 64 that he stood on top ot of another yawning aple down he could not descend in a mechanical ch manner the young man pulled himself up the cliff over which he had alien and then slid down the shale side of the rock landing in the little canyon that comes down just north ot the james hansen farm he kemem hers bers seeing a trail and states that something impelled him to follow it which he did painfully being compelled to sit down and rest many times before he be reached mrs airs hansens home where ho he was cared for and later brought home the young man had fallen over a cliff and must have lain isla tor for some hours in an unconscious state ills left collar bone Is broken in two places his skull Is fractured though not seriously and his body Is bruised up considerably sider ably ile he Is getting along nicely now but Is unable to fully recall how he tumbled off the jagged rocks or how bow he be became separated from his companions it Is confidently hoped that time and good nursing will completely mend his broken body but it will bo be some little while before he be is able togo mountaineering again |