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Show ENTIRE FAMILY TRAVELING ON LINCOLN HIGHWAY HAS NARROW ESCAPE FROM DEATH J SALT LAKE. July 9-Lost on tho idesr-rt for many hours, without water lor food, and at la-st abandoning their ! automobiles and walking until they 1 were found In an unconscious condition, condi-tion, was the experience of Ensign : Lincoln Hart, United States navy, his 'wife and three small children, of To-i To-i ledn, Ohio, who were rescued from 'death by Orr brothers, owners of Orr's ranrh on the Lincoln highway. The story of the rescue was brought to ! Salt' Lake last night by Abe Cohen, a j tourist from Washington, D. C. The rescue took place at midnight, July -1 When I met Ensign Hart and his 'family they had recovered and were about to continue iheir Journey west." Mr. Cohen said. The officer related! I his experiences to me as follows: ' We left Orr"s ranch early on thej morning of July 4, but instead of fol- lowing tho Lincoln highway, which Is j plainly marked by road signs, w - at-: at-: tempted to take a short cut to Fish 'Springs to the now highway which Is I now practically finished. Another I party followed closely in their automo-bile automo-bile Before noon we learned we had, i taken a wrong road, and soon after found our cars runn.nc in deep sand. Our water supply was so low that it was impossible to continue, as our motors mo-tors were burning up Second Party Lost ''It was then decided that the other (party should return to Orr s ranch for water and information, while we were to wait their return. I emptied my ra-'diator ra-'diator and poured it into the radiator ' of my fellow touristand he started back. "'We waited until nightfall for his ! return, but he did not come. We were eak from lack of water, and our j throats were dry and parched The : children suffered terribly. Something . had to be done quickly, so we decided , j to walk in an endeavor to find water) 'rather than die from thirst without an; 'attempt. I carried the smallest child I and we started to drag ourselves through the heavy sand We covered' fifteen miles before we gave up. j "'We later found that, In returning, our tellow tourist again lost his way. I He did not reach the ranch until 8:30 ; o'clock that night and went miles out I of his way ifi finding the right road. We were following his tracks and staggering along carry ing the children. I who were almost unconscious. At ' last we found we could go no farther. We sank down in the hot sand and 'panted for breath, and slowly lapsed into unconsciousness. The last words I remember were from one of the children, who asked. 'Papa, are we going go-ing to die ." I was too weak to answer " 'In the meantime, the tourist had reached the rauch and, after hurried - ly placing water aboard, started back for us with Mr Orr. Of course, under Mr Orr's directions, he took t b right road back to our machine and did not meet us. Wo found later that they !had discovered the tracks in th sand of one of the children's sandals and knew that we had left our car and at-tempted at-tempted to walk They followed I thes- tracks by throwing the rays of the automobile searchlight on the sand j and occasionally getting out and examining ex-amining the roadway. " 'It was midnight, they told us I a t -rr, when they discovered us lving prone upon the sand. We were all un-'conscious, un-'conscious, they said, but Mrs. Hart I I recovered enough after a few minutes jto whisper. With plentiful applications applica-tions of water we all regained consciousness con-sciousness soon and gave thanks that we were no worse than badly weakened weaken-ed from our experience. Mr. Orr took :i ro his ranch, where everything doe sible was done for our comfort. |
