Show TWO YOUNG GLIEN MEN lont jiosa ONE buli bulf SUPPOSED POSED TO BE FROZEN TO DEATH THE OTHER FOUND BUT ALMOST FROZEN HEBER CITY clit wasatch co utah december 2 2nd and imi issi editor deseret hyrum alexander Nel nei baur 17 years of age son of hyrum and jane harriet Nel nei baur of this place has not been heard of sf sance nce nee the morning of the dinst and is supposed to have perished in the mountains in the region of strawberry valley vailey 25 or sa east cast of heber the circumstances connected with this sad affair as related dy by the boys father and others are follows as A number of men were engaged in chopping in the mountains near strawberry Valley vailey valley vailey on the morn ing 1 his son hyrkin and a aMr Johnson went a mile and a half from camp and commenced chopping hyrum became discouraged cou raged with the prospect as the snow was a bout about a foot deep and snowing I 1 very fast and requested to be allo ailo allowed wet wei to come home hone As ad a team had llad left camp it a short time before air told his son that he be might take his ax and go to 0 the sawmill about three t mile mlle igo di distant 9 a n t where the team would stop to load with lumber and he could go home with it the young man took his a ax x and started this was about 11 a in on tuesday the mth dinst mr dir arrived at home about 4 in tile the afternoon after noon mrs airs enquired of him where hyrum was and he be much surprised asked Is he not here tn in alarm mrs nurs N answered no nor been here since ho he went away with you the news of the young mans disappearance spread like lire and at daylight next mordina morn ing 22 men had reached strawberry valley and were scouring the mountains in in every direction for the lost boy and nd from that time until yesterday evening the search was kept up with indefatigable able abie energy supplies being sent from here hero M e and fresh parties jo joining lIling lil n llie ilie search but no traces have been found it was snowing when the boy started for home and the storm has continued to the present time and it is now snowing the snow in the vicinity ol of strawberry valley Is now from 3 to 5 feet deep A party of four herd boys tho who rho came through strawberry straw berry the game same day that thai II 11 rum started f for orsome or home report having seen a person with w ith something on his hla shoulder which they supposed to be a gun going southeast down straw berry and in a direction away from the 3 young oung man shome one of the seau seat snatching ching parties report having fount foune where shere some four or tive tise dry aur king asps alps had been lately chopped some ot which were lodged against other trees and an effort had apparently been made to start a fire ains tins was some distance from the road which goes to ashleys fork through strawberry and about 15 miles the other way from where the jungman oung mau man started home and on the same load on which the pelson person per pel sou son was seen by the held boys boh bos it is surmised zed that the boy became bewildered in the snowstorm snow storm and took the wrong end of the road and would about reach the place where the poles were cut at barkand dar kand as tiie tile night was terribly cold and storming he probably perished somewhere near that place out tile the snow having haung fallen so deep deepal it was impossible for tiie tile parties to find any f urther further traces by lly re request q est cst I 1 I 1 append a di of the clot ciot clothing ning ling worn wom by the young soung man so that if he e has perished and an discoveries eues enes sh should 0 uld aid du be hereafter made madu it may be the means of identifying the re ic mailis mallis lie ile wore a bl black uck ick wool wooi ool hat bat tan colored ducking coat blue bine demms deninis clie cile chelios vlot shirt blue flannel undershirt blue overalls dark oark cloth pants blue flannel drawers wore boots and had llad dark hair while writing the above aboe sheriff jones called in iny office and informed me lue that yester sester yesterday duy morning rooming john nelbon nelson don son 15 13 or 16 iti years of age and son of henry nelson neison an old resident res les ident of this place went w ent to hunt for tor horses not returning at bed time parties went in search of him and searched search cd all night the night was horrible wind brainand rain and snow incessantly he could not nol be found this morning numbers of men went in search and about one to dag dav he about tive five miles from ills lils fathers residence in a sitting posture his forehead resting on the palms of hs hands saith ely uni conscious ills his boots were tilled jilted with w water ater and his body entirely drenched ile he was brought to his fathers house still unconscious and the latest report i to ni rit dit is that thai th it bici is suffering erin intensely from returning ch circulation of the blood I 1 have not learned whether he has recovered sufficiently to be able to speak speaker or noti nott yours A J |