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Show SURVIVOR SAFE IN Rie CRASH ALAMOSA, Colo., July 6 l!.E) A. S. Hunt, 58-year-old adventurer adven-turer who was lost for 24 hours in rattlesnake infested wastelands after his boat was wrecked in the Rio Grande river, was recovering from! shock and injury here today. Delirious suffering from numerous num-erous cuts and bruises, Hunt was given emergency first aid by rescuers res-cuers at an isolated sheep herder's herd-er's camp into which he stumbled late Monday northwest of Questa, N. M. Physicians rushed from Alamosa to administer medical medi-cal treatment and subsequently return the man to his home. His condition was not considered critical. Hunt, a Denver railroad worker, work-er, and E. R. Wakefield, Denver Telegraph company official, set out last Friday in a home-made boat to attemp to follow the treacherous treacher-ous Rio Grande along its 300-mile course from Alamosa, Colo, to Aibuquerque, N. M. Sunday their boat struck a rock. Two ditch riders saw Wakefield thrown into the river and drowned. drown-ed. They watched while Hunt, apparently ap-parently dazed and near exhaustion, exhaus-tion, gained the opposite shore and, heedless of their warnings, started across the desert. |