Show kanae kanab youth has narrow escape from freezing ray collard Is in the hospital this week as the result of an experience sunday evening which would have proved fatal if searchers Boar chera had been delayed over halt half an hour in fit finding hiro after lie he became lost in ili flood canyon in ili the johnson canyon area in company with roscoe hamblin hamblen toy hay had gone up on flag point sun ale ilay dyer ing separ separated went back to their car and waited tor for a time then returned to the point in ili search of his companion realizing that ray had apparently become confused cont used and lost hla his direction in the snow flurries which prevailed during the day roscoe returned to canall kanab tor for help after dark tone mcdonald metz hamblin hamblen berkley laws and few others returned to the vic hilty with him and ami they picked up rays tracks which were almost obliterated by drifting and falling snow following the tracks with difficulty they found places where ray iliad slid down ledges which they could not descend but had to go around with the tracks almost impossible 0 follow they suddenly came upon fresh tracks where hohag ho had circled and crossed lite his trail realizing that hat he was further down in flood canyon some of tho the party returned to the car to bring it around near the mouth of the canyon while the rest continued on an the fresh tracks finding whore where ho he had waded through pools ot of water and finally where he had staggered and fell repeatedly peat edly they came upon life unconscious form at 11 pm where he had stopped one of the imen proceeded on down the canyon to neat ilam ham blons blins ranch to got get a horse while the rest of the group spout spent four hours working over the body of the victim frozen from the waist down it was almost impossible to get lite his water soaked boots off members of the party state that hla his feet feel and ankles were frozen froken hard and his legs were dark blue in color ray shaving regained consciousness they started back about five 0 clock in the mor morning ning and reached the kanab about eight hospital attendants atten dents stated yesterday that his ifert wore were thawing out satisfactorily facto rily and it hoped that not even a too toe will bo be lost which Is miraculous in view of his chis condition when found by vile the searching party |