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Show PARTY CF EEGisT 13 LOST Oi! SALT iZ: ' Joseph Kelson, Present of lb Vinl (X Started for Btrd Island Yesterday i::rr.::j With His Sod, I'M, llfftvis d Id's Mm, Sb! Have Return: LesI i:.:.t . THOSE IN PARTY LOT ON THE OEEAT 8 ALT LAKE: Joseph Nelson, president of the Saltair Beach company. Franklin Nelson. 4 years old, hia arm. Miaa Tommy Nelson, aged 20; of Moroni, a niece of Joseph Nelson. Nel-son. She baa been living lately at the latter' home, 2113 South Stale treet. :' " Miaa Ida Nelson, her Bister, aged 18. '. She also haa been liviug at Joseph Nelson home lately.? She and Misa Tommy Nelson are daughters of Ephraim Nelson of Moroni. ' . , ' Ernest Nelson, aged 21, of Moroni, cousin of the Minsea Nelson and nephew of Joseph Nelson. He haa been making his home recently recent-ly ith hia uncle. . . . Misa Haael Faux, aped 20, of Moroni, visiting at the Nelson home. Mis Maude F. Quajie, aged 17, of 21, Vest Eleventh South street, chum of the Nelson sister. CaDt. Ernest Larson, in charge of the launch. Intense anxiety is felt for the safety of Josenh Nelson, president of the Haltair Beach company, oad a party of einbt. who left 'the beach yesterday morning at 10 o'clock with the intention inten-tion of making .a trip to Bird island, about forty miles northwest, of the beach." ' - ' ' Up to .1:30 o'clock thia afternoon no news had been beard from them, though it was their intention to return to the beach last night. Shortly after the party left Salt sir a storm earn up and the lake waa rough for the greater part of the afternoon. When the party failed to return hv midnight lRt n'tfht F'l- ward Larson and I. O. Laneford pul out -in a stnslt gasoline launch with ttic liope of rendering assistance to tLe parfy. . , Owing; to the heavy sea thjv were unalile to proceed farther than Antcl"i-e island ' last - eight,-' At 7 o'clock tin morning l.arnn' and Lanafiud liit Antelone Kiand In a launch lMlonf;ne to J. K. Uoul.v for Bird nlnd. h n. e that time. so information his been received re-ceived of either pertv 1 he lake, is reported to be cslra this morning. The boat in which the Ncinon p:irtv left theL beach is- a stsuorb Isunrh and was in cliarge of .ain,u Krneat Larson. At leant aa Iwnr I fore th storm struck btiltmr -,,. r., - afternoon it could.be seen nnrtii it t -beach snd it is fc:(rf l i ' JOBtr-fc Sr;L80N, . President of the Saltair Beach company. ' was caught in the storm and either that it capsirjed or that ita engine weal dead through the actios uf ilia water. Is the latter rase the party may lisvs been unable t" make a safe harbor. Friends of ' J missing party hold lo the belief that the party was near to the island when the storm struck them aad that they sought shelter. 1 hey try to explain that in all probability the engine of the boat got out of order aad for thia reason they were nnatile to return to the bench- by this sfter-noon. sfter-noon. The rejinn in which the boat wss st the time of tbe storm Is ksown aa one of the worict on the entire Inke. It is to ths south ef th Lurin cutoff, where the wind at times sweeps with terrifie force from the northwest srm of ths lake. It ia this kind of wind that has cost the railroad company millions of dollars dol-lars for repair work, and ia that part, of the lake th railroad keeps a constant con-stant watrb. Kor many miles the wind haa a fre. unobstructed sweep acrosa th desert and lake asd at timea the heavy wavea ria to a height of twenty feet, it ia said. Men who have witnessed these storms declare that no boat sa the lake could withstand tbs waves fur soy great length of time. RECALLS ETPEHrFKCB OT avr.l.r.VH THHE YEARS AOO The last party te be lost on Great Salt Lake waa composed of T. Joshua Midglev. William belley. Joabua Seller and Henry L. Sellev. The party left Saltair Sunday morning. August 0. 19US. When it failed to retsrn st sight rescu parties were organised and th lake was scoured for tbe misaiag party. It was not until th following Tuesday that William and Joshua be ley were found en Antelope Uland. wKere their loat. the "Irene." had drifted after having battled with the wioo asd th ' waves for nearly two days. The following dayl tbe other twe memhere of the party were found on Antelope island All members of the party were nearly dead from want of food and srater. A frw hours after tlirv had left the beach for emise of the lake a storm came ap. Before it calmed dows their engine had become disabled, aad for ' tbe next two dsys they either drifted or were carried by the wind from place to place, yet not close enough to icake a landing'. At one time oa the second dav out one of the rescue boata passed withia three miles of the dieaMed. boat. IhiI the reseitera did not see the party, and again they were left to tbe mercy of the wind and waves. While Buffering for ths want of fnod and water aad from the severe nervms strain none of the members c t! e party par-ty suffered any acrioui coast.. ' j . |