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Show Colorado children recovering Survivors of Blizzard Are All Expected to Live, With No Limbs , Lost; Tragic Experience Is Told. LAMAR, Colo., Mar. 30 (U.R) Life again today was all important to 15 little children who survived one of the worst blizzards in the history of the west. The children, who were rescued from their trapped school bus near towner after collapsing during the height of the storm, were in hospital beds here, bravely fighting the pain, of thawing arms and legs. In the town of Holly, cast of here, lay the bodies of the six victims of the tragedy five children chil-dren and Curl Miller ,the bus driver, driv-er, who died during a vain search for nid. AM Will Recover The grim tenseness this section of Colorado has felt since the children chil-dren were found in the bus late Friday eased somewhat today when it was announced all the survivors probably would recover, and that no arms or legs would be lost. Consciousness had returned to the children, and they had learned their school mates and Miller had died. Despite the intense pain they suffered they were able to tell what they remembered of their horrible experience. They told of being dismissed from the Pleasant Hill, school Thursday morning when it was apparent ap-parent that unless they soon reached reach-ed their homes they would be ; snow-bound in the school. They told of starting for their homes in the bus and of becoming lost in the blinding snow; of the bus running off the road, and of themselves, made by the bus driver driv-er to play games so they "would keep warm." They told how first one child and then another collapsed from exhaustion; how some "went to sleep." They told how Miller, whose own eight-year-old daughter, Mary, died, started for help, telling them to pray. j The long, cold hours of Thursday night were remembered by some huddled on the floor of the bus, the children attempted to keep warm. The older ones gave aiany of their clothes to the younger. Through broken windows the j snow sifted, and the biting wind rushed. Long hours before, the bus seats had been burned for warmth. I They waited anxiously for Mil ler. He did not return. He lay face down in the snow, conquered by the storm, several miles fiom the bus. This they did not know. Then they remembered little of the sceae within the bus, or -if ' the storm. Their next definite recollection was of great pain pain they still suffered. In Extreme Pain The children were in extreme pain today, as the blood once again slowly forced its way through their limbs. Their cries were not entirely en-tirely of pain, however, but also of grief. They realized that never again would they see alive their five school mates Mary Miller, Louis Stonebreakei. 14, Orville Untiedt, 7, Bobbie Brown, 9, and Kenneth Johnson, 7. The storm that trapped the school bus was one of the worst in 40 years. When the children did not return to their hornet-Thursday hornet-Thursday their parents thought them safe at the school. When no I word was received from there J inlay in-lay search was started. Two men, H. A. Untiedt and Dave Stonebreaker, found the bus. Inside were the children, and among the dead were Untiedt's son nnri tonebreaker's daughter. The surviving children were taken to a farm home and then brought here by airplane and automobile auto-mobile for medical treatment. |