Show I l d 7 6 v 1 LOST IN SNOW STORM i I IFred Fred Cox and wife Wandered I IS S Seven yen Days in Mountains F D. D D. D Cox and wife whose EP horrifying experiences experiences- in the frozen mountains of Sanpete were vero i related elated in a recent dispatch to the tho Herald are at the tho Holy Cross hospital Th Tho o woman is fighting l oil off death and mid both are awaiting the surgeons surgeon's knife She has con congestion congestion of the lungs and her bel HIbbs 1 are so badly frozen that oven eYen i I should she live Jive through the first trouble both feet and both hands sr excepting only onry tho the right thumb I The i will have to be bo amputated i husband will lose h his s toes and I t poi portions of both hands The patients were brought to I the tue city by Horace Et E. E t All Allred red of Mt Pleasant who was r. r l the first to reach the helpless L starving woman up in the tho 1 moun mountains and Mrs Mis Hannah Rowe Howe f f Dr S. S H. H Allen llen has charge of the tho i 1 case and will perform the necessary necessary l' l sary operations probably within I the next 24 21 hours The Tho story of unparalleled led suf suf- tit R. R j. h. h rel related led by Mi r. Mired Allied about as alre already dy given ghen but T with greater detail debut Mr l and Mrs bars Cox reside at Mona Mon and ana early cady last las week attended tho the funeral of a no sister at t Orangeville about eighty miles miles from their home t l One week eel ago last Wednesday V t they st started over o er the mountains 1 1 for ho homo home o by team The Tho weather was us pr promising ing and they had but li little tle i idea ea of boin being on on tho the road more noren th than n two days I I SNOWSTORM SNO CAME CAl ON I But nut on on Wednesday e ev evening a I h and d' d heavy eavy snowstorm came on oil an I they got no further than a n p place ace called Joes Joe's valley where they I camped for the night Th Thursday night after a drive through the bitter cold they i reached cached the Huntington Hunt Hunt- I ington reservoir and the thEr next I 1 I evening their joui JOUl I ney with scarcely a stop they came camo to John Seeley's dipping I L c. c corral in the heart of the tho Sanpete f jt fl I it t nf 1 i t mountains n I The blizzard raged all this t ti time e o with unabated f fury ry and and Cox was a as somewhat worried worried over ov-er the tha pr pros prospects is- is peets for the tho remainder of the te the trip He Ho mounted one of ih the h ho horses s fi finally ally and rode on ahead ahen to see if ho bo could had the road While moving along a dugway lab about nt a mile from their camp h he I suddenly observed that t the e snot snow snowdrift i just drift drift just above him himl was cracking cracking g gI I M Knowing i-Knowing the tho ominous warning he had barely time to leap from fron his his' horse and roll out ont af of the tho wa way when hen apparently the whole mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain side camo carne tumbling down The hor horse e was caught in the slide over the dugway and buried Its body will not bo be found until next spring Cox made bis his way back ack to io camp with the knowledge that it would be impossible to go o any further with the wagon Luckily they had hud three horses when they started started started start start- ed on the journey and the travelers trave lers believed it possible to com complete the trip home on h that that day I ABANDONED Tim TIlE VV WAGON AGON A Accordingly they they abandoned one the wagon and all the provisions they had bad and started started out out on horse horseback horseback horseback back Sunday morning morning- They go got only a few miles miles but blit found shelter shelter shel shel- ter tel for the night in s a cabin abin at atan at an anold anold an old ra Monday lon ay they I 10 o- o their trip trip haying having had hd nb no I nourishment except e ten tea a a. small package of which Mrs Cox pl placed placed c- c ed cd in in her bor pocket They l had ad proceeded proceeded pro pro- only a 11 few miles s when the horse the wife was WaB riding f fell ll down exhausted leaving tho the an ani animal ani mal behind Cox placed his bis wife on the other horse hore nod and trudging alongside of f her kept up p th the tho journey While wandering aroun arouni I in tho the dense storm dense they lost themselves I II I I I and shortly discovered themselves I I between two solid embankments I I. of snow out of which it V was S imI impossible im impossible im- im I po possible for tho the ono one remaining horse to move in any direction The Tho man and und wife scrambled out of I their perilous position leaving the hoi se n. n as it it was afterwards I discovered checked up The sut- sut I on opposite page |