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Show Ill LOSE LIS I RESCUE Vernal Men Perish From Cold and Hunger on Mountain Search for Woman and Invalid In-valid Son Told by Survivors Sur-vivors of Storm. ,: . '" 'I I. 'i rj,.p.. VhrlN.W.. I . i'ti, v.-r I'. Sai.fonl !..i'l 1 III. k-., I'-'" Of the CreW !lt til sawmill !',i'i'''-J im Inui.ioi"! mountain. 1 1 . i r r -4-1 n l i ill- m from V.-i-nnl, perished ilolil cold Mini hunger in a despl III I e, but : ; i r H n.rtt-iMi'i to .sinri.r the w.fc and lu-ivllrt lu-ivllrt .""ii .r Air. HU-K. I (,-. !. or ' 1 1 i :h plain. l,al.l M al e. unlit of fact lies a ir.i;:i': t ; 1 1 . of privation and i-ili fort tr,r. of deotlon au'l heroism, typi-oa! typi-oa! of w. ..il. tii life in curly (lays, hut allium recorded in the uiiii.'ill of the ir-.-oi.l. Siiii.1,1-. !... mf..-r II. (!..; May an. I A. I.. Ilai ri. i., go. ei uinent trappers .md" hunters, of Vernal, foiuiii on I Jla-nioml Jla-nioml mountain l-'ranelsoo .Sol.:, a Moxi-.-nil. win. bad boon employed ni the Hicks sawmill. Ho t"!d thoni enough of Iho slory to mnl.e evident the necessity for ,;i:cl. aclion, anil, adding I o rue party I Ye, 1 J 't'lloli, anoUiir trained niotm-ialn.'fi'. niotm-ialn.'fi'. Hi.; three Vernal men litaned to I ho rcKeuc. Find Woman Near Death. After lliree days and nights of ylre.li-uoiim ylre.li-uoiim offor;. llio party i-eaebed the saw-loill, saw-loill, finding Mm. Miekii and her son .lose doalh 1'ioni oold and starvation. 'Mo: roof of their lent was uncle:- tvvo feet of snow. They had not lasted tircad tor fifteen da:t. and the only food re-iniiiiuiK re-iniiiiuiK was a handful of beany and a small part of the brisket of one Boat that had lieen caught and killed more than a week before After attending lo the Immediato needs of I he mother and the hoy, tho rescuers si ai led (ill! to I'ind Hicks and banforrt. who had left the mill Thursday. December Decem-ber II, In an attempt tn secure food for other members of the family there. Go-ing Go-ing to where tho trail started, they traveled trav-eled lu li zigzag direction about eighteen miles. At a point about ten miles from the mill. In a. deep canyon, tliey came upon tho bodies of Hicks and Sanford, whom they had perished in their struggle strug-gle against tho snow and cold. Snow Tells Story. Muto evidence- of the brave sttuggie for luo was clearly apparent. It was seen that thev had attempted to dig a shelter Place In the snow; that Satlford. tho older man, and tho horse bad fallen, and that Hicks had dug them out with the shovel he carried. The victims made progress but a few feet further. The bodies lay not more than six loot apart, with the frozen horse about the same distance removed. Snuggled Snug-gled between the hind legs of the horse iav tho body of a house cat. while the frozen shepherd nog lay close to the front of the horse's body, as if driven thevo in (U'sire to absorb the last bit of heat from tho larger animal. It is believed be-lieved that Hicks and Sanford picked up the lost cat and the dot,' after leaving the' sawmill, the animals finding comfort in human companionship. Cold Record-breaking. It was dui'ing this week that the temperature tem-perature In Vernal dropped to the lowest -Ft recorded hero, readmit close to 30 desires de-sires below zero for several successive nights, while on the wind-swept mountains moun-tains hither up the temperature must, of necessitv. have been much lower. The Thursday nislil of file tragedy is believed be-lieved to have been the coldest mitfit of the vv.ok. Hicks wore summer underwear, under-wear, two naiis of overalls, sweater, ia.-kcl and coat, clothing baveiy sufficient to: even me , oo. ".(-.j --- this region. - 1 Mrs. I licks told members of the rescue party luat on I'c.rec different days after iicr husband and Sanford had left the sawmill she had made ready to attempt j tho trio to Vernal, taking her son, but. that some! hlmr." she knew not what, I had held her back, bidding her wait till 'acln came, li is doubtful if the woman i and child could have survived more than ihlrtv-stx hours longer had not aid reached them. Thev are now In A'ernal, whore funeral services for Mr. Hicks, who was 3S years of ago, will bo held j -ouiorrovv under the auspices of the! Woodmen of the World, of which order: he was a member. The body of Mr. San- ford, vbo was 0i years of age. was sent Wednesday last to Fresno. Oil., at the reuuost of bis sister, .Miss Roxie San-ford. San-ford. Supplies 'ot Delivered. Mr. ami Mrs. Hicks came to A'ernal from toloracio several years ago and started t'.ie sawmill on "Diamond mountain. moun-tain. Some weeks iigo "Mr. Hicks came down on horseback and took in some supplies, being then advised that ho ; outfit to come down and brine: his fan- ; i!y for the w inter. He sent down again: for surf'lies. but through some misunder- i standing t'.ey were not delivered, and1 when the uncsuauv severe storm of !e- I comber S broke and b'sted several days the amilv was suffering from lack of food Then came t'.'e last desperate ef- I fort to secure help. Hut for the finding ! of the Mexican on Sunday. TAeeeinber 14. j the tragedv of Hiamoud mountain would unquestionably have included in the death lifrt the ucmes of the brave mother and, ixu- I'.e'.nlers son. |