Show nearly frozen and forced to subsist eight days on one days food adventure of snowbound nevada miners who tied a message to dog s neck and sent H m out fop help carson city nev snowed in with but one day s food and twenty milea the nearest habitation chris jepperson and jack reynolds miners blent eight days in a starving and freezing condition the two men went out new year a day to do some location work on a laim owned by them in the lone pine bining district east of ahey took their dog with them and ne day s foods instructing the driver of a hired rig that took them to the coot of the mountain to return next say for them the driver returned to Gard nervilla ind forgot all about jepperson and reynolds until a day later he went out but the men could not be found and he returned lo 10 jepperson andE eynolds walked up the mountain after leaving the teams and reached the winter s mine where there Is a cabin all day new year a and tor three days after the snow all EO that it was impossible for the men to leave the cabin even tor fuel the food gave out the third day and jepperson tied a message abouna his dog s neck and rushed him out in the snow to die or reach Gar derville the dog reached monday and was noticed wednesday a week 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 re 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 |