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Show SAVED FLOCK IN CLIZZARD ' Aged Wyoming Shepherd Followed Sheep for Five Days Without Foed or Fire. hive days Iu a snowstorm, without food, fire, rest or sleep, William Mc-I'ornilck, Mc-I'ornilck, a sixty-year-old sheep herder, herd-er, arrived at the Murdock ramp, Wyoming, in a deplorable condition, but still guarding the three thousand sheep with which he hsd left the camp, ills collie dog underwent similar simi-lar hardships, but assisted him lo bringing the flock back to the corral. McCorinlck is employed by George Murdock, a prominent sheepmau. Murdock's sheep range over tbe great ' Red fieseii," which, Instead of being a desert. Is oae of the finest sheep ranges In the world. While out in this great plain McCorinlck and bis big herd of three thousand sheep were overtaken by a howling blizzard of wind, Know and sleet. As Is usual during such storms, the shc p Immediately Immedi-ately turned their tails to the wind and drifted with the storm, despite j tbe efforts of McCormick and his dog i to prevent the animals from going too ! far from their range. Fur three days the band drifted, the herder and dog trying all the lime to stop the animals. j which moved slowly in a great body i before the wind. j McCorinlck had no food with him. j and there was no way to cock It even ! had he been supplied. On the open ! prairie he was unable to procure any ; Inflammable substance, lie dared not I lie dow n to rest or slei p for lear of losing his sheep as weil as from fear of being frozen lo death On the evening of the th'id day the storm abated and the tin ep came lo a standstill, many miles irom water or range. McCom.ick knew his lle depended de-pended absolutely upon Ms ability to reach camp, and although now three days without food, water, fire or rest, he started on the return trip, driving his shi-cp before him. At tbe end of another two days the aged sheep herder herd-er arrived at the camp and was taken In charge by his companions. During the five days he had sucked snow tor water and had gone entirely without food. rest, sleep or fire. His face, hands and feet were frozen Surgeons Sur-geons report that he will live. About one thousand of the sheen were missing, but these were rounded up by other employes and brought to camp. McCormlck's fent Is looked upon aa one of the most extraordinary extraordi-nary Instances of endurance ever known In Wyoming. |