Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1909-02-05 | Page 4 | Met Horrible Fate

MET HORRIBLE FATE aged prospector dies from starvation and cold buena vista colo NV D Medi macaure Mcc Aure ure eged 65 66 a pioneer plon prospector and miner ot of tho the mount Prin princella celpa six miles allea west of here was waa found frozen to death in his cabin near tho the top of mount princeton on friday A ranchman living in the neighborhood who had missed mcclure mcclura for several days went to investigate and round ills his dead body every scrap of food in tho the cabin had boon been eaten and indications are that mcclure had become so BO weak weakened enod by starvation that he was unable to endure the extreme cold of the past week the snow in the vicinity of mount princeton Is 19 ten teh feet deep and the ranchman who found mcclure had great difficulty in teaching reaching his cabin practically avery trail leading thereto had bad been obliterated