| Show A lamentable ancl and Oc ence 44 jn liy r th the d following inexplicable occurrence 17 lilting 1 8 qing ving in the he death of a lad jad named alien allen norton 4 rw 0 0 A pa haye hayo been heen b in related to us by a bentle v gen tie tle man from umit county and are no doubt debt lit in deall deail substantially I 1 correct as AB the relater is know nto be a man of truth november last mr charles kortos 0 11 1 of provo esrov city citi i went wint to S mraie county and took a job of making a quantity quan city lity of shingles for mr 8 P hoyt near the m mouth out of sliver Silver SiNer creek about abolt forty m miles i iles lles from provo at which he worked till just before christmas when he be returned to provo to spend the holidays on or 1 about abolt avolt the oak instant tant he started on his return to summit with a yoke of oxen and cart taking with him his bis son bon s an about fifteen years of a age ge not a very strong healthy lad to assist him in completing his job going by ii fr of uhe thi provo kanyon road the weather was stormy and the roads very muddy in consequence of which he made slow progress and noi ila having aliv i laig taken the thi precaution pre 1 caution to have hive a plenty of provisions with him for such an MI emergency Imer gency his scanty stock was exhausted before ile he had bad made raade halt the distance from Pro voto the place of destination on the in I 1 ll 11 passing from provo valley over to silver creeks creek norton and his son traveled all day in a severe storm of rain and snow w without food f getting gettin 0 along a but slowly with the oxen s lih bj lon ion before they reached the first settlement settlement on the creek gave out and could not travel further and they were unhitched from the cart and lett iett without being unyoked the thie father and son bon then proceeded a short distance on the road when the lad cold wet and and ana hungry 0 became so BO exhausted that he could go no further and laid down bythe by the way his ilia father then ihen took him up ip and carried him some considerable distances distance when he elther either swooned or fell asleep and the father supposing that the boy was dead laid him down by the roadside and went on to the nearest houte house said to have been some two miles distant and related the ead cc occur currence anc lo 10 athe occupant a mr mecham die nie eilam cilam who being about as stupid as the father made no 0 effort to go for the body of the sup supposed posia dead boy that evening ey ening but unconcernedly went to bed abil a nd slept siept tie the remainder of the n ight night on rising 0 next morning the father went vent several miles further down the creek to the house bouse hollia of a relative before going lor lon the body tf cf hisson his son soe toe soo and it was wag after midday as reported before he ard and others went for the corpse and ana andon anlon on arriving 41 at the place where he had the evening previous placed the body to his surprise he found that after he had left his son bonas is before stated st atea he had revived revive d got up anu ana Q walked about three tb rue rie quarters of a mile and then had laid down dowil again in the espow snow and I 1 I 1 diell dieli died and nd from toa ioa appearances ppe ype arances had not I 1 long iong ono ong g been dead ft agthe the body when found allow inythe in tracks had hal not noe been stiffened by the te c cold old oid 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 1 the oi t currence when made known created some soine considerable excitement and indi indignation 0 am among ong th the e people in that vici vicenty nty as the ilfe life ft the bay would have been saved but hut for the stupidity and ip indifference difference of the faher an and oi of the h e man to whom the circumstances were lvere first made known the ox oxen en that were left in the yoke were not looked at nine days they th eyvere were mere then dounda kort short sort distance from the cart standing UP 0 sift rounded with snow three or four feet 1 ap de ep hain haan having beaten a circular track therein the ibe rein out ou t of which Alch atch th thy y could not get they were vere in inn all ail emaciated condition but it was b 6 it with ca rethey could berosus citarel 1 tre tn e ia r occurrence should be a barnin warning n to others traveling 0 in this mountain ous mi country f in the winter seasons season as many do without properly property preparing themselves with loo food d and clothing 11 sufficient to make them in comfortably comfor tabla and secure inthe event of bein overtaken ever taken with storms |
