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Show Japleton Youth Has Hard, Time In Canyon Accident :rcd Jensen Suffers Broken Leg; Crawls Mile To Horse Then Awaits In Dark With Faithful Dog . For Aid To Come The spirit of adventure coupled ,jih a desire to enhance the spirit f Christmas- in the home brought isaster to Fred, 14-yoar-old son of r. and Mrs. Joseph Jensen of lapleton, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 3, at 3 o'clock. Fred, with some companions, left a horseback for Maple canyon to rocurc a Christmas tree. En route ) their destination the hoys scpar-ted. scpar-ted. Fred had tied his horse to a cc and went sonic distance up the lounlain side, where he slipped nd fell as he sawed the tree he ad selected, suffering a severe racture of the left leg. Finding himself in a precarious ituation the youth cut a sleeve out , his shirt and tied it firmly iround his leg, then started slicing slici-ng and crawling down to his horse, i distance of more than a mile, ac-:oitling ac-:oitling to a Report of the accident. The descent was not so hard, rred said, in relating his experience; ex-perience; but when he reached a Img level stretch of land between -e foot of the hill and his horse found traveling on his hand and jic leg not only tedious but ex-' ex-' -emery painful. Upon reaching the horse he took ,c saddle off and turned the ani- al loose. "But why did you do that," the a asked. 'I knew when daddy saw "Dick" would come as soon as he uld," he explained. The horse soom disappeared and -ed tried to send his faithful dog, jp too, but the dog refused to I cried when I first fell" related ed, "and 'Tip' howled, too. He ;til to get close to me but I aid n't stand his weight, much as -.ceded him to keep me warm.'1 is soon as the horse arrived 1 ae the parents felt that some thing had happened to their son, and they forthwith set out in their car to find him. They went as far up the canyon as "possible in the car and then set out on foot. After tr"cjiome distance they shouted. Their call , was answered by both boy and dog, and it was not long until they ; found the boy curled up under his i saddle blanket, with his broken leg crumpled under him. A stretcher was made as quickly as possible, and the parents carried car-ried him to the car where friends had arrived to render any assistance assist-ance possible. It was after 8 o'clock ; that evening when he was found : and only by the light of the moon i could the parents find their way down the canyon to the car. The youth was brought into town where he was given surgical attention, and last reports were to the effect : that he was improving as well as ! could be expected. This, is said to have been the third accident that Fred has met with in which he sustained broken fcmbs. When six years of age he sustained a broken arm, and last summer he suffered a broken right leg when he fell from a load of hay when the horses ran away. This experience harkens back to a similar one of the family when their eldest son at the age of ten was lost in the same canyon while out with his uncle. He had wandered away from the ramp and was not found until the next morning, when he was located some four miles up the canyon on top of the divide between Maple and Hobble Creek and Diamond Fork canyons. Between 30 and 40 men spent the night looking for him, and when daylight came they found his tracks and also those of bear which had gone over the lad's trail during the night, the father stated. |