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Show SAVED FLOCK IN BLIZZARD Aged Wyoming Shepherd Followed Sheep for Five Days Without Food or Fire. Five days in a snowstorm, without food, fire, rest or sleep, William Mc-Cormick, Mc-Cormick, a sixty-year-old sheep herder, herd-er, arrived at the Murdock camp, Wyoming, in a deplorable condition, but still guarding the three thousand sheep with which he had left the camp. His collie dog underwent similar simi-lar hardships, but, assisted him in bringing the flock back to the corral. McCoriuick is employed by Georgo Murdock, a prominent sheepman. Murdock's sheep range over the great "Red Desert." which, instead of being a desert, is one of the finest sheep ranges in the world. While out in this great plain McCormick and his big herd of three thousand sheep were overtaken by a howling blizzard of wind, enow and sleet. As is usual during such storms, the sheep immediately immedi-ately turned their tails to the wind and drifted with the storm, despite the efforts of McCormick and his dog to prevent the animals from going too far from their range. For three days the band drifted, the herder and dog trying ail the time to stop the animals, which moved siowly in a great body before the wind. McCormick had no food with him, and there was no way to cook it even had he been supplied. On the open prairie he was unable to procure any inflammable substance. He dared not lie down to rest or sleep for fear of losing his sheep as well as from fear of being frozen to death. On the evening of the third day the storm abated and the sheep came to a Btandstill, many miles from water or range. McCormick knew his life depended de-pended absolutely upon his ability to reach camp, and although now three lays without food, water, fire or rest, he started on the return trip, driving his sheep before him. At the end or another two days the aged sheep herder herd-er arrived at the camp and was taken In charge by his companions. During the five days he had sucked snow lor water and had gone entirely without food, rest, sleep or fire. His face, hands and feet were frozen. Surgeons Sur-geons report that he will live. ADCut one thousand of the sheep were missing, but these were rounded up by other employes and brought to camp: McCormick's feat is looked upon as one of the most extraordinary extraordi-nary Instances of endurance ever known in Wyoming. |