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Show LOST IN A STORM. Ilie Terrible Experience of a Young Hunter Hunt-er In the Mountains. Harry Hardinot, a resident of York-ville, York-ville, Mendocino county, had an experience experi-ence last week that will probably result in his becoming deranged. He was hunting hunt-ing in the mountains on Wednesday, and becoming confused lost bis way and wandered over the mountains for three flays and two nights in the storm without with-out a bite to eat or shelter. The severe cold and snow which prevailed pre-vailed made his suffering most intense. The first night out he succeeded in building build-ing a fire and kept watch during the long weary hours. The next day he started again in his fruitless search for a trail or anything to indicate the way to civilization. civiliza-tion. The rain drenched him through and through. At thia time, he not returning home, the neighbors were notified, and a searching search-ing party of 31 mountaineers was organized. organ-ized. All the adjacent hills, mountains, gulches and creeks were scoured without with-out the least discovery. Thursday night snow fell on the mountains moun-tains to a great depth, and the cold waa terrible. The unfortunate wanderer waa driven before it, his mind almost unbalanced unbal-anced by the hardships he had endured. His travels were through the roughest country in places never before visited by man. Friday morning found him almost al-most exhausted, yet the spark of life which was left gave him hope, and he kept moving. At last he saw a fence and followed. He was now so exhausted that he was compelled to lie down and rest every rod of the way. At last he was rewarded in seeing the house of Rodney Lowery on the Rock-pile Rock-pile ranch, a sheep range of many thousand thou-sand acres. Mrs. Lowery saw him com- j ing and ran to his assistance, fearing that he was wounded, as he still clung j to his rifle. He could hardly tell his ' name, he was so bewildered in mind. He had been out in the elements 50 hours, and his emaciated condition told too plainly of his keen suffering. Saturday Satur-day afternoon two of the searching party found him at the isolated home of the shepherd, and the following day he was conveyed to his home near Yorkville, where he is now under medical treatment. treat-ment. It ia feared that he will never recover re-cover hie health, and if so his mind will I be entirely gone, owing to the terrible experience he passed through. San Francisco Chronicle. I |
