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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 i 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 cliild. 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 he was revived and told the story of the accident. Thtee automobile loads of searchers left for the 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 and her face and hands covered with dirt and blood. The child was found crying under a railroad bridge, hungry and thirsty, but not Injured. The grasdiuother wos 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 the shelter to die. Both women were barefoot and had been stumbling over the scorching dea-ert dea-ert for hours. Their faces, hair, arms and shoulders were masses of blood and dirt. Both had sustained sprains to their arms and shoulders and were in a pitiable condition. |