Show STARVING CHILD EATS GRASS awful rate of a five year child nr with her little hands and mouth all tamed with green from the grass and flowers she had eaten in her desperate hunger and with her features drawn in the dying agon es of thirst the body of the five ear old daughter of W matthews who was lost on the dreary waste of clorse plains near prosser wash nearly a week ago was found thursday the child in her agony had crawled into a big badger hole on the prairie and with her arms outstretched before her had died from the appearance of the body the child had been dead about thirty six hours so for five day and night she had been without food and water the girl with her seven year old brother left her father s ranch to hunt cattle in some way the children be cam separated when the boy re turned home without his sister the alarm wai at once given and searching parties organized and scores of men on horseback scoured the surrounding country day and night ever since barefoot when she left home the little girl in her wanderings had cut and bruised her feet and had gathered the tough prairie grass and wound i around them for protection bemid her in the badger hole lay a bunch flowers and grass which she had beai eating the place where the child wai found was fully seventeen miles from the ranch and not far from lon springs |