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Show TWO I01G IH DIE II VALLEY 8F DEATH Bodies Are Pound by Party On a Prospecting Trip. Special to The Tribune. CALIEN'TE. New, May 14. Joe Constantino, Con-stantino, one of tho oldest and best known prospectors In Nevada, who has Just returned from a three months' prospecting pros-pecting trip Into the depths of Death valley, val-ley, tells a sad tale of death and deprivation depriva-tion which befell two young Eastern men who preceded him into the death-trap lying at the foot of the Funeral range In tho dread valley. ' The young fellows, whose names arc unknown, but whose trouocrs aro marked "Walsh, -The Tailor," lost their lives somewhere close to the rango mentioned and nearly thirty miles from water. Pack Horse Found. t Their animals have not been found, except ex-cept one pack horso which was partly covered by sand and nothing but skin and bones. The older of tho men had evidently gone crazy before dying, his fingers being worn away to tho bone on both hands. Near where he was found by Constantino and party ho hnd dug a three or four-foot hole In tho sand, and with hlG naked hands vainly tried to reach water. Bodies Nearly Nude. Tho bodies of both wero noarly nude, and the younger, a man not over "26 years of age. with gold-tilled front teoth, had on him a handsome gold watch of Elgin movement, marked with a monogram "M. G. II.. and a seal ring with the letter "H" on the seal. Tho bodies wore brought out of the valley val-ley of death by Constantlne and his partners part-ners and burled near Carroll Springs. |