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Show FOUR ON DESERT NEAR DEATH Wander to Exhaustion After Their Auto Plunges Through Bridge. Greenriver, Utah Suffering intensely intense-ly from their injuries, exposure and lack of nourishment, E. Harris, his wife, their child and the grandmother were Monday brought to Greenriver after they had been subjected for si hours to the desert heat after their automobile crashed through a broken bridge fifteen miles east of here. They were all severely injured with the exception ex-ception of the child. The man was found unconscious by the roadside by a party of motorists who had left Greenriver early in the morning. Harris was taken to Greenriver, Green-river, where be was revived and told the story of tlie accident. Three automobile loads of searchers left for tlie scene and after six hours' hunt found Mrs. Harris wandering in the desert about six miles from the main road. She was stumbling helplessly about, her tongue swollen from the lack of water nnd her face and hands covered with dirt and blood. The child was found crying under a railroad bridge, hungry and thirsty, but not injured. Tlie grandmother was found over a mile away from the child and mother, lying in a tin culvert in a dying condition. con-dition. She had felt her weakness and had crawled into tlie shelter to die. Both women were barefoot and had been stumbling over the scorching desert des-ert for hours. Their faces, hair, arms and shoulders were masses of blood ind dirt. Both had sustained sprains lo their arms and shoulders and were in a pitiable condition. |