Show I 1 PLUNGE INTO CHASM hurrying Hurry log before a blinding enow snow storm ft a herd of thoroughbred hereford cattle plunged into the canyon of tho the grand river last thursday trainmen were informed that over one thousand cattle perished only a few wore were wert left on the brink of the great chasm the cattle belonged to the thoroughbred herd of josiah welby who has a big ranch eighty milt miles south of sagers elation on the rio orande western the remarkable severity of the storm drove the heni herd before 14 and the cattle lost their way unable to we a dozen yard yards in n advance they wandered helplessly over the edge of the canyon shiell ie Is about feet deep for mv hevral ral miles to n that district their battered and bloody b bodies were swep down the stream and noted with amazement by the lonely ranchmen who liva at the mouth of the esca lante river it empolen into the Color colorado 11 |