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Show -'V .- ... - sJ .. Ve 4 a. l Eight Persons Who V.'cra Lost on LaKe Returned it 11:23 This Morning none has sunrrio SEEICUS ccizzzyzzz They Worried More L z : Fears of Frienii Thaa for Their Cwn Safety. ''I feel fin, but X an not going oi t again aa that nasty old lake." In the few werdi Franklin Ko'u. i't 7ar( old, expressed hie r a " after the party that left Silulr b !-. at 10 o'clock Thnraday morning bit' i with) the wind and wave and ean : 1 a lalanda for two days. The retu n lnfi1 party waa greeted by at least 2 ) parsons. "I think that thia will be (by l.i-t trip that T ever cnre to i:V n t' ' I.- Captain of boat in which th S'1i""ii pirty was twed tbout on t" furious fu-rious waves of Oreat Calt iaae. lake." aaid Mis Maude Ouayle, on-of on-of the member t.f the pally. "iC.;ie people ma v env that we had a preat:nr Mo-e. aad f . a abort tim we did. Ix t a far as I an, personally eonecra.; 1 'here will ijv no more ouch tripe i- mv life. ': ' 1 did not (Link that we were in fnive dang r eept oace or twir. Irt iio aot ' ir to tnke Stirh kinds vf rips," said M'ea Hsi-I T'aux a ( a '. ute after the reeeu-' boot reerh. J tiki.iair. Joseph Nelson, president of the Salt-air Salt-air Beach company, at least a yeai older in looka than wbea he left tba beach with the pertv Thursday morning, morn-ing, but still showing that he bad lost- none of his grit, was ia charge of Ihe party wbea it arrived at tu beach this morniog. "Oh, yes. we had a little trouble, but at so time were we ia any ape-rial ape-rial danger. Some of the party got a little seasick at times, but they gt ever it in a few minutes. Our woi,t worry waa about wbat our frienda ai relative in th -city would -think of our not returning." Capt. Fmett liarson, who - was is charge of the launch Alice, gave a graphic description of the trip at the beach t hia morning. "Swen," aa hia friends ksrw him, waa white with the salt apray of Ihe lake from bead to foot. Hia eyes were bloodahot and hia bands and arms, were rut and . bruised in tbe cruel battle with th waves aad wiad. Laraon was erae-ticnllv erae-ticnllv exhausted whea he reached the beach, but he was able to direct the course which tbe relief boat sboald take and to give the first informatioa that tba party was all safe. Tired and worn out with the long hours of straggle, tbe man still kept bra bead aad told of tbe tnxiblea of the parte. His atory waa told ia au-h a modeet wav that it waa a little hard to realise that he waa the real hero of the party.' Mr. I .arson said: 'The Alice.' a Itehorsepower motrf boat, owned by the beach u.mav. left Kaltair shortly after 10 o'clock Tr"rv da' ti-.rning. having an bourd Mr. Nelson, Nel-son, bit son. Franklin. Mies Cooaie e-1 life Neleon. Miss Haael Vnux. M .. Mande Vuavle- and F.roest Neixon an t lnvlf. We made the ma to 1 ' I ilan. our tlrt stopping uiare a 1.. e before S o'clock mat afternoon. "A hcavv wind came np and we re Betined there for a I" e ever n - (CoutiaueU ou 6 ) dent Joseph Smith, mother-in-law of Joseph Nelson god grandmother to Big little boy, was one of the moat interested inter-ested persons on the beach. With tear dimmed eye she watched the progress prog-ress of the boat through tba watef as it came closer to tb beach. At times it seemed as though Mrs. Smith could not be restrained from going to tho rescue. It was only after she had been assured time and time again that the party was all right that she quietod down. Waiting Crowd Cheered. A few minutes after 11 o'clock this morning J. . Langford. general manager man-ager of the beach, notified tho train crew to hold the train which waa to have left the beach at 11:15 a. m. It was just 11:2ft o'clock this morning morn-ing when the launch Ruth tied to tho pier west of tho ship cafe. It was a tired, wornout, salt spattered erowd that waa on board. They tried to be brave while a erowd of 300 cheered them as they walked np to ths plat-farm. plat-farm. The flrst one from ths boat was little Franklin Nelson, who .was handed over by one of tho women members of the party to a representative representa-tive of THE TKI,EGRAM. Tho NELSON PARTY SAFE (Continued from pg 1.) hourswheo are. ltft - for -CarrLoatou island, which ws r.aeoed about sun-dowa sun-dowa and where w ramped for ths night. V mads two bis; bonfires, aa sonata to P.iltair bench that we were all right. We were to light but one fire if we were in distress. We eould sen the lights at the beach, but eould re-ievs no reply to our iignals. At midnight Mr. Nelson went to the top f one of the hills and reported that the lights were still on at the beach Hour after hour some of us climbed the little hill on the island and eould see the lights at the beach, which were evidently evi-dently burning as a beacon light for us, but thejr evidently had not seen onr signal sig-nal that we were safe on the island. T understand that they were looking for us at a point north of where we were anchored. Might on Antelope island. "We remained there all night and early yesterday morning started for the beach. The wind waa against us and the engine at times did not work the best. We reached Antelope island about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. "The wind was blowing hard and the waves were heavy. We had drifted for some time and Mr. Nelson and 1 realized that we would have to make a landing at the best point we eould reach, ft was not good place that we struck on the west shore of the island. "The boat was dashed -upon the beach and. then swept back into the water. "Finally we got a landing and Mr. Nelson and I carried the women to ths shore and left them there. I hurried hur-ried across the island, a distance oi. ten miles, to the Dooly ranch, where I secured a buckboard and a saddle horse. I returned to the party and then left for the ranch about 3 o'clock Yesterday afternoon. I remained with he boat nntil 9 o'clock last night, trying to get it afloat again, but it was filled with water and I eould not raise it from the beach." 'Before leaving for the ranch Larson crawled down an abandoned mine shaft for a diatsnee of 150 feet to secure water for the party. Continuing, Larson said: "I left the Doolr ranch at 5 o'clock this morning for fcaltair, where I arrived at 7 o'clock. . youngster took a tight grip on the reporter. re-porter. "How do you feel, Frank t" asked the reporter. "Feel fine, bat I am not going any more," and the youngster young-ster slipped out of the reporter's arms and ran to meet his ten vear old brotharAlriii The. little ellow.lit- erallv wrapped his arms and legs about his brother. He kissed and hugged him until both were choking for breath and then Mrs. Hmith took the boy in hand and ne hugged and kissed her as he had his brother. When he eould get his breath he said: All Got Seasick. "Gee, grandma, but I m glad to see you again," and Mrs. Smith took the child in charge. She refused to let him out of her sight for a second and on the way to to. eity she told the father: "The next time you want to go for a pleasure trip, you please leave this child with me." Mr. Nelson told her that they had been in no danger at any time, but Mrs. Smith refused to take the statement in that wav and insisted that if the father wanted to risk his own life sgain he eould not take any of his children, chil-dren, at least, if she had her way about it. Speaking of the-little fellow Miss Faux said: "That boy was a hero. Perhaps he did not reslise the danger that we were in several times, but he was happy all the time, or at least appeared ap-peared to be, except when he was seasick, sea-sick, which most of us were at one time or another. His father talked to him and told him to be brave, but he did not need to do that, the child never seemed to know what fear was. Personally, Per-sonally, I think that he was the only member of the party that had a good time, and I think that he is glad that he is back home." S. P. Launch Assisted. Shortly after 10 o'cloek this morning morn-ing the launch W. E. Marsh, a 50-horse 50-horse power boat owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad company, arrived at ' Saltair in charge of J. N. Murray. JTbe boat left a point on the Lucin eutoff early yesterday afternoon and went di- rect to Bird Island. A cruise of th. entire island was made by the boat in the hopes of finding the missing party. No trace of the Nelson party eould be found and about 9 o'clock last night the boat was compelled to seek shelter in one of the coves of the island on account of the heavy wave and high wind. At t o'clock this morning the launch left for baltair. going by way of the west side of Antelope island. Mr. Murray saw he disabled boat and at once suspected that someone hsd taken the lost paty to the beach. He and bis party shot their boat in that direction and arrived soaked to the skin. When told that the party was safe Mr. Murray said: "Well, I'm glad of it, but this boat and my men are at vour service jnst a long aa yon want tbem. At 1 o'clock this afternoon th launch W. E. "Marsh left for its home station. . I guess that I 'blubbered' a little lit-tle when Mr. Langford and the boys met me and I told them that all the members of the party were safe. 1 have been on the lake for sixteen years and have never lost a person as a seaman, but this was a hard trip. Thank Uod, all of the party are safe and bo one is the worse for the trip unless it is in the mental anguish that they hay.e suffered." Larson was the hero at the beach this morning. When he arrived and annonnced that the party was safe, "rjwen" was picked np by the beach employees and carried about the pavilion pa-vilion He seemed to rare little for himself, but insisted that he wanted to sec ' that the party reached the beach in safety. Orandmothar at Pier. With the aid of powerful field glasses the Dooly launch, Kuth, was seen to leave the west aide of Antelope Ante-lope island shortly after o'clock this morning. Those at Saltair who had been watching for two days and nights for a sign of the missing party heaved a sigh of relief. They knew that the boat carried the missing party. The boat put well to the east from the island and for a time some of those welching it believed that they had been misinformed. . "1 tell yon that that boat is csr-rving csr-rving the "party; it is in charge of . K. Doolv, Jr., and he always runs his boat that' way; he is not taking any ehsnces of wind or wave," said Ernest Larson. There were ever 200 relative and friends of the missing party oa the pavilion, and if any boat was ever watched with interest in the history J of boating in 1'tab, it wa. that little black speck far to the north of the j beach. Mrs. Wsrsh Hmith. wife of Prei-1 |