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Show LOST IN BLIZZARD, GIRL ALMOST PERISHES Sallda. Colo.. Oct 17. At the thifcshhold of a deserted cabin in the . , SB I mountains fourteen miles southwest of Sallda. Miss Bessie Longlon, young and pretty schoolteacher of the Pon-anza Pon-anza mining camp, weak for want of food, her shoes worn to shreds, and lu i feet cold and bleeding, fell fainting faint-ing yesterday after she had wandered through a blinding snowstorm, lost for over twelve hours R Ft Wilcox, who had been hunt- I ing near Shirley, stumbled over her body a few minutes later while 1 i 'king shelter from the storm. He j carried her into a cabin and succeed-ed succeed-ed In reviving her. She had left Bonanza, which Is a small mining ramp in I he San Luis valley, before sunrise to visit her fiance, who was ill at a mine six m les west fter she had traveled a j few miles a light snow began falling and at a fork in the trail she became COCfuaed and took the branch that led off info the mountains. Later she realized that she was traveling in the wrong directions, but by this a time the snow was falling so heavily that she lost her way - 1 |