Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-07-10 | Page 27 | Autoists on Sahara Swept by Sandstorm

ON SAHARA SWEPT BY SANDSTORM Find rind French Roads In Algeria In Condition for Motoring An encounter with a a Sahara desert Sandstorm while wJ lle touring through north northera northern northern ern era Africa was waa tho lot of ot I 1 L H and family of Grand Rapids Mich not I long ago The Tho trip was one of the first automo automobile automobile bile bUe journeys of or the present prevent year and It extended over miles mlle terminating In Europe Mr tr and Mrs Withe and daughter Mrs Harris with their driver V E Eo Keel left New Now York January 29 and by way of Genoa went to Algiers Three thousand nd miles were w re traversed In Algeria The Tho tourists Invading In the environs of the desert d lert traveled In their car They Th had gone south as tar far as the Ute Sahara and over good French roads I were going toward Biskra which Is on the he edge of or the desert The road they found was being repaired and because of this the motor car was turned Into the loose sand Immediately the wheels spun around Bround and burled buried themselves to the axles axlen and the tho car stopped After some labor the tire chains were at attached attached attached and the car ar went on When the storm struck as It did while they the were In tho the midst of the sand tho the flying particles whirled about In clouds which made It almost Impossible ble to see the road ahead The sand Ii nd was waa swept sept along by the wind so swiftly that It Jt stung the face and the woman sought shelter behind the tho front seat scat seating themselves on the floor of or the They wore vore fairly protected and after tho the storm was WIlS over the Jour Journey Journe journey ney ne was resumed Upon leaving Algeria the party went by boat to Marseilles and from there turned northward to Paris through the tho chauteau district One Ono of or the towns I visited was Biarritz and the members I of the tho party part remember with pleasure a glimpse they thoy had hM of tho the late IRto King Ring Eel Eil Edward ward VII VIr only a few days before he loft left for the last journey from his favorite winter home to London After a visit to Paris the party embarked at Havre for tor New York