Show nn MRS LUCINDA CLAWSON DODGE A pioneer of 1461 such a person Is ie mrs mn clawson dadee abc resides at 1331 east south temple agree bretl t the astonishing dho overy that to her belongs thin remarkable won not dot made until yesterday and lat last evening the lady wap wae interviewed by a NEWS representative from her ber the photograph which this sketch she preceded the advance guara who biased bladed the be way into this mountain region in 1847 by one year when this was le learned arved the surprise Burp rlee not to say ay astonishment was waa very great erest on the part of the mrs dodge who in 1846 was bevet years y ear e old and together with her father mother and ton ten brothers and preceded the he iii donner party put of whom perl shoO in the sierra nevada mountains mountain in the winter of 1 7 eo an route to mrs dodges dodge father was wai abom left ray bay early aly in abe spring of 1846 the jour nor may iry across the contin to Cali califore foru to six ix to the day the abodes B family settled in sacramento where abere mrs dodged mother died mr brodee worked for a time in ID butters Satt erg mill allt where gold was wae first discovered oo on the pacific coast mrs was waa till still a child thong ebeo went to live with a married sister for a time there she be met john clawson Cla waon who years utah became her ber hue bus band baad the latter was a brother of cl everal H B clawson of this city fact makes make mrs mr clawson now mrs MM D adge an aunt of hon 8 ancer of the he jubilee corn com mif talon mrs addge returned to utah io in 1849 io in charge of her bar father and nd with other members of the family who brought a barrel of gold dust dual along with them the banry korv of the sufferings Buffe rings of the donne doboer party as aa told 1 by mrs dodge is ie a most moat pathetic one when they were hemmed la in by the snowy depth of the Sl sierras erras her brothers went back with others to attempt the rescue ot of them some of the party they found alive but a good deiy were deai dead those who were living were subsisting upon tue the clesa of those who bad away one ode of her own brothers perished in his hie attempt to save the now wan wai no BO deep that it 11 reached the top of ef the tall and food had boa to be passed from branch to branch the bodies of the living were carried out in a similar manner 0 01 ar F z MRS LUCINDA CLAWSON DODGE the rhodes brothers brother in rescuing ng twenty Beven souls by carry ing them out upon their backe back thic tah however does doea not represent the total number dumber saved as forty eight in all were relieved from their terrible suf euf feriD gf some ioma of them by a party sent bot out from california callb ants thomas thoma abodes dodged father died dlud to 10 in bouthern utah in 1867 at the BRO are of at 79 years mrs alre dodge has bag three brothers aou and our bittera who made the memorable rip with her ber now living they are isaac william and caleb rhoden the two former live lo in california the irbe latter resides at price utah hf he la Is three yeara older thao than bergelt and Is ie io in salt lake Tivi ting the jubilee the donver party says aye history bi atory consisted of ef george donner james jamea F reed beed and about eighty five others men women and children la ilk I 1 company with others other they left ufa aurl late in april or early in may 1846 separating west of south pass par on the stream known as little sandy the dinner party in the be latter part ot of july started out lor for fort bridger mr rhodes original leader of the party but george donner danner was elected captain of the company which was henceforth known as ai the donner party there they tarried four daye daj prior to taking the hastings halting out affus aal to california this route whish was waa just juat begun to be travelled was by way of bear river echo and weber can around the south snore af the great sol salt lake and aerow across the fie devert to the humboldt and the Sl sierras its if P protector rol sotor was waa lansford LB ford W hastings a mountaineer and guide with ahw th proprietors of fort bridger being interested in the MID new road they were doing all in their power to induce emigration that way mr reed states that moms friends of his who had bad pro pre heeded him to california with pack animals bad left letters for him with mr Vai Va quez Equez bridgets evs partner who advising the company to go by ahw way of pert fort hall and by no means meana t to take the hastings cutoff cut cuto fl but bat that jacquez Vac quez as aa be learned later had kept these letters ibus preventing we the party from being warned near toe the mouth 1 I bebo canyon they bey found a letter latter sticking in the sagebrush sage age brush it proved to be from hastings who was thea abe piloting a company from weber webar oan can yon it stated last it if the donneil party would send a messenger imen after aim he would return and guide them along a better way than the weber which was represented an ai being very difficult Acour accordingly mr reed an and two othere Cutchen Mo u and S lianton to aton fol followed lowed and overtook has stings near black the tee south sough endl of toe the laze lake he could not aben return but gave mr reed beed some information concerning a butoft cu cut toft still another from the mouth of echo across the into the gait bait lake valley the latter then return edi to camp the route now taken by this party was wan the one followed next season kyr by the mormon pioneers up east oan esa yon over we the big aud and little murvia huun bains and down emigration canyon into the valley the way was waa extremes ly difficult and sixteen days day were con COB fumed by the donner denner party in cutting a road through the canyons then came amo the crossing of the western doe dee ert rt where many of their settle gave out for want of gross grass and water while others were joet joe and stolen by the indiana them hem ato to abandons some of their heir wagons in the liast of 01 the be baady waste delayed by these and other misfortunes misfortune the company did oot not strike the me main troll trail antho on the humboldt until late in sep bep tamber by that mas time the ia last eem pa is ion of the nesson seabon had marood ps aed another month brought them to the tb toot foot of the truckee pass of the Si sierras early scows now oame came completely blocking up the way some ome of tho taft company killed their cattle and went into winter quarters quarter near track truckee lake apke but others hoping still to broad bread the ibe pass delayed bullying bui bul lulng luing their until heavier snows fell burying cat V ie cabins and all it was now de comber their provisions were aou amigh exhausted and starvation stared jibe be bailets emigrants emigrant in the face an party on snowshoes snow banow shoes pushed head over the mountains mount alna braving new enow and ice and wintry blasts to te obtain relief for or their companies before reaching new helvetia a now several of the barty arty died from cold and hunger ana exhaustion exhaust lov and she ot boril freezing and na barving starving tar ving were compelled to eat their flesh captain butter of butters Butt ert fort near sacramento slid and others nearer the bout oat on learning of the terrible fate impending Imp eBding the snow enow bound travelers tra velere meted fitted out relief parties and sent them go 0 o trie rescue this timely archor saved caved wont meet of the suf sufferer lerer but out ot of the ab original eighty seven persua persuaded dea into taking this death trail across the asela thirty nine Dine perished from cold end bd starvation the survivors when sound bad been eube lating for bor upon the bodies bodiee of their dead compan ioup such was war the ead fate of the doimer party the last one houed was waa a german who became a ferocious cannibal was wae picked up in april 1847 |