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Show A E VOID G. GIAUQtJE, fotnsr ; member of ".at-3 iar.d '.;'..'i:i ' j and many years oa city board of; r-duc.-.Uol:, vhos.' dr;".th occurred ye::-: ,it terd:y .-'.iter a ihert lH.:s.!. ; I1 1 1 :,: -if ' ''I 'i f ; 'r i' 1 I " I S ' ' -jfk ! FAMILY KEAfi DEATH"" " OF THIRST IN DESERT Ensign and Mrs. Lincoln Hart of Toledo Unconscious Uncon-scious When Rescued. With Three CHildrcn, The Leave Auto, Walking Fifteen Miles. Loaf on th" d- . err for man;, hours, without w.'i'er or food, and at la..' abandoning aban-doning tlo-lr ;i t:t'. mobile and walking until un-til f Imy eolla.p hi lite :-ta nd, where th'W u'-re found in an uneons',!oU:', condition, con-dition, wa:-' the ep cb nee 'if Kr.Mgu Lincoln Lin-coln If.i'-t, bniie-i i-b. navy, his wife and three mall children, of Toledo, Ohio, v. ho v -re i-e;ei.ed from death by Oi-r hrot hers, owm-i a of nrr's ranch on the Line. .In highway. The story of the r.-s--ue a.-, brought, to Salt Lake last night h- Abe i ,lK r, -i tourni fmm ,i..htug-r.on, ,i..htug-r.on, I i. ' '. The i no t ook pho u a I uiMuight, July 4. Mr. i 'ob 'mi mm-; I :-igu Hart short 'y after th,- Man family hail bwM ssived, and lb" na va ! oi n.-er urged thai tour-i:.':' tour-i:.':' be warned at XaU Lak- when going Wny.t to ,. iloW (!) Lhieolu hlghV. 'MOSO- ly and not ( ry ni'.y :-hort eut s, su.-h as ho atlernpied ami whb'h airno;'. r.-sub-'d in the death of Lis familv and himself. "When f mei Lt.s.gn Marl ami his lam-tiy lam-tiy t he had rccovcri d and were about to lolltilllie llirll' j i 1 1 I' II '" ' W'Vl," Ml-. Cohen f,:lid. "The nff'eer related his ex-pei ex-pei lence?! (, ;lM ft. Mows: "'We left iit'.-; nineh curly on the morning of ,Iulv I, but inMead of following follow-ing th Lincoln highway, which is plainly marked le,- road sign;-, wo atlompted to take a short cut to l-'i.-h Springs to the new highway which Is now practically flui.-hed. Another party followed closely In their autoiniblle. Lefore noon we learned we bad taken a wrong road, and soon after found our ear'i running in deep sand. Our water supply was so low t ha i it was impossibly to continue, aa our motors were burning up. Second Party Lost. " 'I t was then deejded that the other pnrt should r'turn to Orr's ranch for water and Information, while we were to wait l h-'ir return. T emptied my radiator ra-diator and poured il into the radiator of m v fellow ('Uirl.il a ml lie started back. " 'U'e waited until nightfall for his return, re-turn, but -he did not come. We were v eal; from lack of water, and our throats were dr and pan bed The children suffered suf-fered terribly. Something had to be done oulokly, so we decided to walk In an endeavor en-deavor to find water rather than die from t h Irst wit hnut an at tempt. I carried car-ried the smallest child and we started to drag- ourselves through the. heavy sand. We covered fifteen miles before we gave up. " 'We later found that, in returning, our fellow tourist again lost Ins wav. He d'd not reach the ranch until S:3(l o'clock that night nnd went ndles out of his wav in finding the right road. We were following his tracks and staggering along carrying the children, who were almost unconscious. At last we found wc could go no farther. "We sank down in the hot nand and panted for breath, and slowly lapsed Into unconsciousness. The last words I remein,ber wore from one of the children, who asked. "Papa, are we going to die?" I was too weak to answer. " Tn the meantime, the tourist had reached the. ranch and, after hurriedly placing water aboard, started back for us with Mr. Orr. Of course, under Mr. Orr's directions, he took the right road back tn our machine and did not meet us. "U'e found later that they had discovered dis-covered the track in the sand of one of the children's sandals and knew that we had left our car and attempted to walk.. They followed these tracks by throwing' the rayB of the automobile searchlight on the sand and occasionally getting out and examining the roadway. Are Found on Sand. " 'U was midnight, they told us later, when they discovered us lying prone upon the sand. We were all unconscious, they said, but Mrs. Tlart recovered enough after a few minutes to whisper. With plentiful applications of water we nil regained consciousness soon and gave thanks that we were no worse than badly weakened from our experience. Mr. Orr took us to his ranch, where everything possible was done for our comfort. " 'Our experience has not made us abandon our trip west, but it certainly has taught us a severe lesson In following follow-ing roads, especially acss the desert. Hereafter we will be glad to stay on the road marked "Lincoln highway." and our narrow escape from a terrible death should be a warning to other tourists to not attempt short cuts.' " Mr. Cohen, upon arriving in Salt Lake last night, said that tourists going west across the desert should carry a plentiful supply of sasoline, for the supply stations sta-tions mentioned in the road books have been abandoned, owing to the change which Is being brought about by the new Ksh Springs cut-off. He said it is now hardly possible -to obtain motor fuel east of Kiy, Nov. |
