Show I What Has Happened to Hickman F Family amity Nine Members s r Mysteriously y RElATIVES SEARCHING FRANTICALLY llY fOR CLUES k Lost in the fastness of the bewildering bewilder bewilder- ing network of canyons canons of the Wasatch range B. B C. C Hickman his wife and anel seven Cn children who left Tintic Tintie for Blackfoot Ida Illa in a wagon drawn by t two o frisky colts on May Maj- 18 arc aro be believed to have perished Not a word nor a trace of the tho family has been heard by relatives or friends A 41 sister of Mrs Hickman Mrs J. J W w. Rees Hees of bf Ramona avenue of this cit city is stricken with grief rief fearing fearin that the wagon with its li in living car cargo o of nine has plunged cd from one ono o of he high roads into a canyon str stream am which at that time of the sprin would be filled tilled with torrents of water from the thaw of the tho mountain snows allOWS A horse believed to tohMo have hMo been ono one of a athose those belon belonging ng to Hickman has bas been found in in the upper Bear riv river r and a demolished wa wagon on also said to be tho the ono one the family left Tintic in two months mouths ago along with other p pieces of furniture were found on onan onan an nn island in the river Noticed Item Last night Mrs Irs Rees flees read in THE TELEGRAM an account of a three three- year year old old boy being found by an automobile automobile automo automo- bile party of Vernal in the canyon rho Tho child was lost be being n only able to tell his rescuers that It the tho tho thoVa Va wagon on had harl tipped over o Weeks without word from front her sister had caused d Mrs Rees great reat anxiety When she read of the tho account she believed be be- the child must be one ono ot her sis sisters sister's sis sis- ter's little twin tin boys bos She immediately telephoned a friend in Tintic Tintie who knew know her sister and family you oU h heard rd the sad news nO was as a the message of her friend over the time tele tele- phone Your sisters sister's family has hns never ne boen been heard of One of ot the dead horses has b been n found Cound In the river and all nil nine are arc believed believe to be dead drad ad Mayor Maor Abbott of Vernal whose auto mobile party platy found the child In the Duchesne canyon this thin morning paid aid the lost child had strayed from Crom a 0 campi camping nit party on the Duchesne river rl and hall hail been returned to lo his hili parents by bV himself personally The child had wandered several several sev sev- eral miles upstream and md no wagon had tipped lipped over oyer Therefore Mrs l Rocs Rees hope that sonic some Information of oC tho the lost family had been secured I lit is blighted Her Promise Ill write you OU the minute I get to a 0 town This was the last promise of Mrs Irs Hickman Hickman hickman Hick- Hick man to her sister Mrs l Rees flees before lea leav leav- vIn v- v In ing Mrs Rees flees had gone to Tintic on Thursday May Ia 16 to bid her sister anti and antifamily family goodby The They left on Saturday Not a word has been heard of thorn thom since Ince Mrs Irs Rees flees ha has h not received a let letter letter let let- ter or an any Information concerning her lost rela relatives tI Mr Hickman was as blind bUnd In one eye e and his sight In the remaining good Cod eye ere was as slightly Impaired He suffered the loss lossIn lossIn lossin In an an accident in the Sunshine mine at Mercur l Driving In n a team of oC colts colta over the roads dangerous under the best of ot conditions Mrs Rees flees believes the Hickman family perished d In one of the torrents of or the Wasatch In May Un the roads ar ars bad from Crom the spring Hoods floods At Tintic relatives and friends of oC the missing family arc are conducting a vigorous rigorous Investigation and search So far Car the In Investigation Investigation In In- has revealed nothing The finding of the horse and a n weird report port that three bodies had been recovered reco from the till receding waters Caters of the near Dear river rh-er and the finding of ot a 0 demolished wagon agon on an Island bland III In the river formed b by ly the lowering of the stream are tho the results of ot the hunt so far Car The rumor of the finding of the he bodies Is hd- hd A brother J Luke Hickman resides at Spring City Ho lie Is said to have ha left for fort forte forthe t the te e territory where here the wagon Is Len and Lin Twins and Baby Carlos Carlo's Three of the Hickman Children Who Are Believed to Be Dead With Others of the Family t. t c 7 S e 5 M Me I e j mL p I i Li r jt 4 Jv 1 ii l w ii S. S Tha N r 5 t S' S 4 to have havo plunged off ort the bank Into the stream From Tintic searching parties have loft left to scour tho canyons In an effort to recover the bodies of oC the nine believed to ha have perished Mr lr Hickman was unacquainted with tho the road to Blackfoot Mrs Irs Rees flees said she sho had traveled over o the road once going to Butte b by te team m and that the roads were most perilous and dangerous and tho the tangle of ot canyons canons and crossroads made It extremely hard to keep from being lost JOlt I 1 fear the wagon fell Cell from one of the road roads a Into a river My 1 sisters slater's husband had hOod poor sight Ight ono one eye being completely complete blind and ho lie was driving a team of young colts that were hard to manage mannge He got Jot off ort the tho right road and probably wandered off ort further Into tho the upper Wasatch Wasatch Wa Wa- satch can canyons canon on where the roads were bad because of ot the spring thaws said ald Mrs Roes Rees this morning morning- The family was going to Blackfoot to visit another t-Ister t of or Mrs Hickman The They never nevor arrived airl At Ogden Osden other relatives relatives rela rela- tives tires were expecting them but havo have heard not a word ord of the tho missing Hickman hickman Hick hick- man family According to the Tintic hunting parties parties par par- ties tiCs and it Is the tho belief of relatives Mr Hickman got lost and If not drowned drowne I In one of ot tho the rivers ors 3 as believed has perished with I h B R wife and seven young youn children from exposure and lark lack of oC food having been caught In one of the tho canons can can- ons where the they had wandered Well Vell Known Miner Mr Hickman Is a n miner well known In iii the mining camps of Utah The children children children chil chil- dren believed belle to have perished are arc Della Delia age 14 H Pearl a 3 younger sister Clarence the tIme third child and Ada still I younger Then Thon there thero aro are year three twins Len Lenand Lenand Lenand and Lin It was wan one of those these twins Uns Mrs Urs I Rees Reps believed had been found Cound by the Vernal Vernal Ver- Ver nal 3 automobile party part and Is yet et re reluctant reluctant re- re to believe otherwise Then thero there was a year old bub baby bo boy Carlos Caries Mr Ir Hickman before beCore leaving for Cor Blackfoot Blackfoot Black- Black foot Coot had been employed at the Mammoth Mammoth Mam Mam- nm- nm moth mine He lIe packed up his household belongings In the wagon Intending to tomake tomake tomake make the trip to Blackfoot In about two wc weeks ks a at t the most He promised me hed he'd be careful and said sald ho he would not travel at night said Mrs Irs Roes Hoes SHad Had he ho arrived safely at atan an any town along the wa way my sister would have e written me Immediately Fishing parties In the canyons where the tho HIckmans may mO have wandered are arc being beIng belag be be- ing lag questioned and are on the alert ItIs It ItIs Itis Is believed that some definite Information will be bo discovered within the next few days It Inn may have be been n that the family was wiped out by a landslide or getting off oft Into one of oC the tho smaller canyons was cut cutoff ort oft by a landslide and forced to face faco death b by starvation and exposure |