Show night might have been worse on wednesday last at lake fork a tributary of the D chesne in uintah reservation S naylor was coming this way horseback and dismounted for the animal to go in and take a drink no sooner however had bad the animal entered the stream it be fan gan to sink in the quicksand and go in ing in n to the rescue ne at 0 oice ice ce sank to his is middle in the same treacherous element he kept going down slowly Y until the armpits were reached and had bad about abandoned abandoned hope when he looked upward and saw some I 1 willows overhanging the bank which he grasped at as vigorously as men in his position are said to do at a straw this saved him and on getting out oat he borrowed a horse horae and harness from some emigrants near by fastened a rope around the nearly dearly disappeared api animals nials neck and with the assistance thus obtained and the struggles of the rapidly drowning creature it was finally landed on toya terra firma mr nay lors advice to others is to not try ito to pass lake fork at that place in that away say |