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Show Giciix. of- Three Young: Persons Lost for Hours on Pike's Peak. , COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. Nov. 28. A party of three young folks from Chicago became lost on Pike's Peak yesterday, yes-terday, and were compelled to spend the night exposed to the rigors of moun-taln;weather. moun-taln;weather. In addition to this, one of the party, Miss Maud Arnold, daughter of B. J. Arnold, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, Chi-cago, was severely burned by the explosion ex-plosion of a celluloid comb which she wore in her hair. The party took refuge in a cleft of rocks, and while asleep near a camp-fire, the comb became heated and exploded. The young woman's hair and clothing caught fire and ehe was immediately enveloped en-veloped in flames. The young men, with their coats, smothered the flames, but not until Miss Arnold's hair and clothing cloth-ing were badly burned, leaving her to suffer pain the rest of the night. When daybreak came the trio picked their way from Cameron's cone, where they spent the night, to the Half-Way house on the cog road, arid Walked into ManltcfQ. The .sight they presented on their arrival was evidence of the hardships hard-ships they had endured. Stanley Arnold, the 14-year-old brother bro-ther of Miss Arnold, and Harold Mauer, were the companions of the young woman. wo-man. Mr. Mauer was on his way to enter Stanford university and stopped off to visit the Arnolds, who are sojourning so-journing temporarily at Colorado I Spring |