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Show DEER HUNTER HAS UNPLEASANT MISADVENTURE LOST FOR THREE DAYS IX THE MOUNTAINS Sprained Ankle Disables Him, But Manages to Reach Shelter and Food A week ago last night, a deer-hunting deer-hunting party, consisting of A. T. Banyard, L. D. Brooks, George Mof-fatt, Mof-fatt, Eb. Tanner and Art Lewis, went out into the mountainous country, coun-try, abouf .forty miles northeast of Milford, with high hopes of bagging some venison with which to surprise and regale their Milford friends. The party reached a suitable camping place and made camp, and all seemed propitious for an enjoyable enjoy-able trip. Sunday morning, Eb. Tanner and A. T. Banyard got on the trail of three deer and remained together for a time, but when the deer separated so did the hunters, Banyard going one way and Tanner another. In the evening Tanner returned re-turned to camp, expecting to find Banyard there ahead of him, but no Banyard had put in an appearance. By this time the party began to grow apprehensive for the safety of their comrade, and the members set out in various directions to search for the missing man. It was 'feared that in tramping around over the rough and precipitous country, covered as the ground was with snow, that Ban-' yard might have fallen over a cliff and been killed. "Doc" Brooks and Art Lewis took the trail for awhile, but Brooks became separated from Lewis and the latter had a hard time locating his companion, finally finding find-ing Brooks lying on the snow, "all in." The search was discontinued for the night, after a late hour,- but resumed early next morning. No trace being found, word was sent to the mining camps within a few miles of that point and some help obtained. Word was also sent to Richfield for the forest ranger, but that official could not be found. Some of the party made their way to a ranch where a telephone was in operation op-eration and telephoned to Milford that Banyard was missing. Early Tuesday morning, a party consisting of Mrs. A. L. Brooks, E. B. Jorgen-sen, Jorgen-sen, M. P. Lewis, L.'B. Waddingbam, Guy Nickel, Oscar Horton, E. H. Bird, Harry Ward, Horace Palmer, Jean Kirk and E. H. Street, in three autos, left for the scene of the disappearance, dis-appearance, equipped with blankets, medical supplies, food. etc. Ed. Ap-' pel, thoughtfully had a big supply of food put up for the crowd, and the party set. off on their errand of rescue. In the middle of Tuesday nfferr.oon. telephonic word came in that the missing man had been found before the arrival of the Milford party. From accounts of members of the party and from Banyard himself, him-self, it appears that the latter attempted at-tempted to find his way back to the cam), Sunday afternoon, but became confused and walked away from the camp, instead of towards it. He got into country which he did not recognize recog-nize and was utterly at sea as to his whereabouts. To make matters worse, he slipped and skidded about a hundred feet on the ice and received re-ceived a badly sprained ankle. He lay out. exposed to the weather and without food, for twenty-eight hours. ! when he tried, again, to get his bearings. bear-ings. When hope was almost gone. he spied a cabin to which he painfully pain-fully proceeded, and was delighted i to find that, while it was uninhabited, uninhabit-ed, it contained a full larder and all ' the comforts of home. On the door j was a cordial invitation for the stranger to make himself at home. ' eat and sleep and be merry, but to leave the cabin as he found it and to be careful of fire. Here Banyard "filled up" and went to bed and here he remained until Tuesday afternoon, after-noon, when Eb. Tanner and a miner named Devine. decided that they would make one more effort to find Banyard, and accordingly investigated investi-gated the cabin, where they found Continued on page 8 DEEH HUXTER HAS UNPLEASANT UNPLEAS-ANT MISADVEXTURE. (Continue! from page 1) the missing man, alive and comparatively compara-tively well, though unable to use his foot. He was put on a horse and started to Milford, but the party was met by the Milford party, in the foothills and the much sought-for man was brought into Milford Tuesday Tues-day night. In the search, portions of four counties were gono over and it is said that when Tanner found Banyard, the scene was affecting, affect-ing, as the former somewhat blamed himself for not keeping Banyard with him, the latter being unused to the mountains. The other members of the rescue party, when they could get the lumps out of their throats, began to "cuss" Banyard as a "blow-off" "blow-off" to their emotions. Mr. Banyard is employed as an engineer on the Salt Lake Route and is well-known in Milford. The affair caused considerable excitement in Milford for a few days, and the town ' is breathing easier, now that the lost is found. |
