Show 4 flEA TH VALLEYS TOLL tI TWO MEN PERISH OF THIRST I WHILE ATTEMPTING TO CROSS DREARY WASTE Unfortunate Miners Wandered About Until They Were Overcome by Heat and Laid Down and Died Third Man Missing Rhyollto Nov Tho bodies ot I Emory Bodge and Tom Flanz two I miners who perished of thirst while attempting to cross Death valley i j have been found four miles west of J Skidoo Cal by members of tho searching party scouring the desert for a brother of President Elilrldge of the National Sowing Machine company com-pany who has been lost lor three weeks The men whose bodies were found left Rhyolite late In August and started start-ed across the floor of Death valley where the thermometer readies 130 degrees in the shade during the summer sum-mer months They carried two canteens I can-teens of water each but this supply I nn n 0 m must have gone half way Crazed by thirst they wandered about until the were overcome by the heat and laid down to die Young Eldrldge was attempting to d roach this place from his mining claims in the Panamint range He loft his companions three weeks ago Men from all the desert camps have I seirchod the desert The burro r j which he took with him when ho started across the valley was found a few days ago but there was no other trace of tho man |