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Show ANOTHER DESERT TRAGEDY. Wonder Camp Mining Man Is Lost Upon Burning Sands. The rescue party which left "Wonder several days ago In search of W. S. Edwards, Ed-wards, whose shoes and coat were found by A. N. Reeves, about, three hours .drive north' of Horse creek, last week, .have returned to camp, and report that they were unable to find any trace of the man beyond the first find, and after following his trail across the desert for several miles It was finally lost In tho dense sagebrush, says the Falrvlew News. Since then his trail has been discovered by prospectors returning from the Bluck Rock desert country, on their way Into camp. Mi Stuart. who was seen, reports that to the east of Dixie he came upon the barefoot trail of a man evidently In distress. At places the footsteps were long and firmly placed like those of a man running, while again they became hardly as long as a child's and were zigzag zig-zag and staggering. He followed the trail for some distance, but not being aware of Edwards's condition condi-tion did not prosecute the search very far. He reports having met two men with a team who had crossed Edwards's trail, and who at once saw something was wrong. They made a camp and unhitched un-hitched their team, and each made a circle cir-cle of about sixteen miles to find him. They found places where he had dug In the sand with his fingers In his efforts ef-forts to find water, and finally came to the place where his strength was rapidly failing, and he could not longer walk, but was dragging himself on his hands and knees. The imprint of his fingers and knees were plain, and to men accustomed accus-tomed to reading Hie signs of the desert unmistakable. They followed him to where he had reached hardpan, where they could no longer trace his course, and after searching search-ing the crevices In the adjacent rocks, weio obllgod to give up the search without. with-out. or .js U)3y, There can no longer be any doubt that the man has become food for the coyotes boforo this: othorwlso some, trace of his body would have been discovered. It Is said that when men are lost on tho dosert without with-out water, and the pangs of thirst first assail them, they Invariably remove their shoes as tho first effort to obtain relief from their fearful sufferings, and after that tho remainder of their clothing Inevitably In-evitably follows at diminishing Intervals, until either tho blackened or swollen body of the sufferer Is found by the rescuers res-cuers or else his bones are later stumbled stum-bled across by some hardy traveler. The trail of clothing haa moro than once saved the llfo of a victim of the desert and enabled the rescue party to reach tho wanderer before it was too late. |