| Show A TERRIBLE experience PE PERILS or OF WINTER TRAVEL IN IK THE DEATH SAVED BY A DOG A correspondent wrote from rocky bar idaho to the boise democrat on dec on dec ed stanton the stage driver drive r left rocky bar at 7 am with F P cavanah as a passenger as sener alsener after going down base beek creek about one quarter of a mile cavanah came back and informed me that the creek had been filled with snow and that stanton and team were in a I 1 at once start started edwith with several men and shovels and got the sleigh and horses ont out went on to the crossing crossin of base creek and concluding therl there were no more slides employed jos A henry to go to junction bar with stanton they had no more trouble until they got ot below the sawmill there they found lincoln creek had been filled with a slide silde it was now dark on the with but three miles to go goto to reach freaa the junction and the men thought that by leaving the they could could get the horses through but hut after shoveling and wallowing through the snow breast deep for half a mile joe henry began to fag flig and told stanton that he could not make the grade which is very adry steep down and stanton well knew they could no not get back to the sawmill saw mill up grade S so ed got joe on one of the horses and started ahead a again oain gain but henry who had bad eaten nothing for fifteen ursand ho was thoroughly wet and weak from so long exertion had become utterly help fessand les sand would not or could not make a move the situation was gloomy and disheartening but nut stanton did all he could for his unfortunate companion and repeatedly tried to make a tire fire but could not as nothing in reach would bum he remained until eleven when he became conscious of the fact that if he stayed longer both would perish so leaving leavin P poor or joe who was still stil lalive alive and for junction bar in a last desperate effort to save his friends life as well as his own he succeeded in getting within on one e hundred yards of the junction house almost gone the dog at the house alone saved him for the noble animal kept up a wonderful wonderful barking george kelley at the house attracted by the dogs persistent noise final finai finally ly went out to discover the cause when he saw stanton when he reached him ed could not speak he was carried in and soon revived told of joe be being ing left in a perishing condition back on the road with wita the horses kelley and hank hesford started out at once on snowshoes but when they reached the scene poor joe henry was dead I 1 forgot to state in appropriate place that it wh was s ten teni so clock cloce cioce on the morning of the that stanton reached junction house twenty eight h hours ours in the snow wath without a morsel cocat to eat brave mant man what a fearful struggle he be had all through ugh that terrible night and on into the next day at 9 on the morning of the I 1 got tommy to start out with the mail on snowshoes as no mail had arrived from below since the day previous T tommy ry got to the sum mit of red warrior and met 11 hesford liford ford who told him of joes death then tommy transferring his bis mail sack to hesford hesford came back I 1 then got geo 1 tom icholson chas stalley usher chase and a young man from atlanta t tp SQ go and bring the body of ile lie henry in to rocky bar they returned inta in 14 hours ours after one jone oi of the per pey x ious and fatiguing trips on recoe a I 1 through i a raging snow ston I 1 a mi body had to lye iye dragged the entire tance by a rope krope which had been pass passed 4 around it under the arms and ii 11 ic fast jhb Vord ord lct let of tie rie te coroner s lis its lury jury was that joseph ah ary ory came earrie to ills liis irom ov ove rrt t art on ori in t aryn ry 1 I 1 n it tb reach junction bar joe was vas buried on idaho flat cember december Dr aith 1883 the whole camp attending the funeral |
