| Show A terrible experience strawberry valley in wasatch county is ia shortly to be the scene ol of operations by surveyors for the midland railway beading this way the season chosen for work is more favorable than made by a former company that went in that direction in january last six men members of a surveying party that had bad been operating in strawberry berry cation cablon passed through a terrible experience with only two days provisions they started down the calion from a point near its head with instructions from froin tue the engineer in charge to leave it by a trail which led out of f it at a polut some miles below where they started and go to a certain locality in uintah valley by a certain route the party missed its way and after wandering for two or three days in the mountains wallowing all the time in deep snow it returned to strawberry cadion there is a considerable stream in this lealion canon and the only hope the party had of escaping death from starvation wad und exposure e was to follow the stream down to a point where there was a cache of provisions and supplies the canon in places is narrow and precipitous and was filled to such a depth with snow that the men were compelled to plunge into the stream at frequent intervals crossing and re crossing itlay sometimes wading long distanced down its current wren when it is remembered that at times the water was up to the mens necks and thick with mush ice the severity of their sufferings the party was enduring maybe may be understood these men traveled in this way for three days day and nights without any food whatever making only afew miles per day during the whole of that time they were wk wet from head to foot and for hours at a time were wading in ice water A snow bank was their only resting place at length in a condition better imagined than described the poor 0 r fellows reached the cache they ta e y quickly opened it and while some of them proceeded to make a fire others broke open cases of canned goods and devoured their contents without waiting for the same to be cooked or even thawed out for the provisions in the cache were frozen solid A can of molasses would be cut open with a hatchet and the frozen contents broken in pieces which were ea eagerly erly devoured one man ate seve raf esse of so tomatoes matoes that wore were frozen solid without waiting to cook or even totham them the keenest pangs of starvation mitigated the men made some bread and cooked some food during daring the next 24 hours houra they did nothing but cook eat and sleep one of them would eat his fill lay down and sleep an hour or two then then get et up and eat again it is wonderful that all the men were not made violently ill but strange to say only one of them suffered sickness in consequence of his remarkable experience and he was not seriously affected after the men had rested they rejoined the main camp without further adventure |
