Show nearly frozen and forced to subsist eight days on one days food thrilling adventure of snowbound nevada miners who tied a mes sage to dog s neck and sent as him out for help carson city nev snowed in with but one day s food and twenty miles rom the nearest habitation chris jepperson and jack reynolds miners ebent eight days in a starving and freezing condition the two men went out new years flay to do some location wort on a balm lalm owned by them in the lone pine pining district east of took their dog with them and abne day s foods instructing the driver of a hired rig that took them to the foot of the mountain to return next day tor them the driver returned to and forgot all about jepperson Jepper soa and reynolds until a day later he went out but the men could not be found and he returned to jepperson and reynolds walked up the mountain after leaving the teams and reached the winter s mine where there is a cabin all day new years and tor three days after the snow fril that it was impossible for the men to leave the cabin even for fuel the food gave out the third da and jepperson tied a message around his dogs neck and rushed him out in the snow to die or reach the dog reached monday and was noticed wednesday a after the men were lost A rescue party started out and made its way to the winters mine arriving late thursday evening the two men were in a fainting condition from hunger and cold jepperson was in better condition than reynolds and he covered when restoratives were given him reynolds was in the deep sleep that precedes death from freezing and it took all thursday night to bring him to complete consciousness he Is badly emaciated and frostbitten |