Show MONTANA BLIZZARD TRAPS AUTO I TRAVElERS i iSalt Salt Lake Man f Has Frozen Foot as Reminder of ofa a Trip WIND STOPS STOPS' CA CAR Intense Cold Almost Brings Death to Held Storm Prisoners Caught In iii a Montana blizzard that came on with the su suddenness denness of the summer rain and held prisoner by wind and snow for thirty-six thirty hours shivering in an automobile in the mountains was Vas the experience of NorI Norman Nor Nor- I man Atkinson traveling of the Mine l Smelter Supply company company com corn pany of this city and Elmer Ferguson of Butte a trav traveling man I Mr Atkinson returned to Salt Lake toda today with a frozen foot to keep him reminded reminded-of of his awful experience He and Mr Ferguson Fers left Virginia City inan inan in inan an automobile to go go- goto to Ennis The weather was beautiful when we started On our trip said Mr Mi Atkinson today but after after we c we had gone a short distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance a light t train rain ra In began to lo fall As As' Asue we ue crossed the tie mountain range we be began began be- be gan to feel the wind as we got on I be-I the opposite side of the range It caught us in a very narrow Toad road so we could apt turn a and aM d go b back ck and I blew with such force I car that We vie could not a advance S Oon the rain turned into snow eloped and developed I into a a. blizzard It sll wed ved fr from m the time we were trapp trapped T 2 o'clock one afternoon until 6 the following after after- I noon We Ve could not see anything and we w wore were re absolutely helpless Mr Ferguson Forguson and I shivered sniveled in the car It was bitterly cold I felt my I right foot freezing At first the pain of it Kept me awake but ut finally ex exhaustion ex- ex I ove overcame came me and nd I slept for or I w U vl I. I Yal the ene foot was perfectly numb Then Feruson Ferguson Fer Fer- guson told me the only thing to to- todo do I was fas as to cure It with the cold so I opened the machine and kept my my foot in m the sno snow sno- r for a long time which probably saved it so the doctors here tell me The snow continued until it came up to the top of our our automobile It became so cold finally that I noticed that my companion was losing a grip on h himself and soon I began to go through the same exp experience I could think of things 1 I wanted to say and do but could not carry out my my will But I 1 could not keep from thinking that I must keep a close watch on my friend as he had a gun with him and I was afraid the cold storm would rob him of his reason and make him him do something rash When the storm broke and we we ve climbed out on top of the machine to get a view o of the country we could see the roof of a ranch house about two miles mUes away We started out to walk to it but when but when we got within a half mile of It Mr Ferguson fainted I managed to struggle on to the house where I found two men All I could tell them was th that t my friend was back there in the snow It seemed that I could not get my wits together They rescued Ferguson and later took a team and hauled the automobile through |