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Show Tourists Experience Harrowing Time In Desert As Car Fails Chewing peach pits and drinking tile Juice of canned tomatoes to relieve their thirst and staggering In the fiea-ert fiea-ert for an entire day to water wnen their nufomoblle broke down, were tuc harrowing experiences of Mr. and Mrs 1 L, C Burton of Washington, D. C. tourists, who are now In Ogden awaiting await-ing repair of their eat .in'l rei ovei-ng from the effects of their strenuous Journe. The Couple arrived here ai weakened condition and with Mr?. Burton, who had Just arisen from a sick t'-d two days before the accident, in hysterics The tourists are on their second trip Across the continent In one of the smallest roadsters manufactured and the tiny car has won a wide reputation reputa-tion In touring circles for its stUrdi-nfi stUrdi-nfi It is called Nancy" ami vu -cording to the owners has run more than "0,000 miles without a breakdown break-down until the accident of s few dsya ago. DOGS AND CANARY, With the eastern couple are two tiny dogs and a canary bird, who were given the last of the water on the desert In order that they might sur-v sur-v ive. although Mr and Mrs Burton were suffering intensely from thirst. Mrs. Burton, who drives the car ana has toured in all parts of tlv Initio States with the tiny roadster told :ec c pc lie rices 1 11 is morn in n 1 11 1 11 1 i u r "11 camp at the automobile Camping grounds near Lorin Farr park. W had taken a short cut north 01 Great Bait I-ake on the advice or a person we met and later found w . were on an untraveled road. However, How-ever, we kept Kolng until we met a stranded car containing a small boy. The boy said his father had gone to S ranch for water and had left him with the car. He was thirsty ond we save him all but a few cupfuls of our Wl feeling that soon We would arrive at a ranch where we could fill our water-bags" water-bags" CAR SUDDENLY STOl v "We had gone about eight mites when the car suddenly stopped. We spent some time in an endeavor to locate thr trouble, and failing, decldeu that we must soon find water or perhaps per-haps die from thirst The dogs and the canary were already suffering anu we gave them the little water whlcn remained in our bag "It was decided that we would w lilt back to the stranded car where we left the boy, feeling thut his faliicr would return with plenty of water, v, 0 began our trip in the heat of the day and had to walk In the heavy, hot sand and dust which scotched our feet. Mr Burton was eorttpelled to carry one dog who soon gave out and tne Canary, while the small bulldog who we call, 'Jazz' walked the entire distance. We almost ran through the Sand in the Mistering heat, knowing that If tin-I'oy tin-I'oy s father returned, they would soon Journey on and wc would miss them BITES STONE. BREAKS TEETH. The speed in which we travelled soon tired us out and our lips and throats soon became swollen und painful. pain-ful. My head throbbed with the heai and 1 felt weak and felt that soon 1 would give out My husband hsid two peaches and he made me eat one anu retain 1 he pit in my mouth to relieve my swollen throat. I became excited after we had walked for man) mi.es, it seemed, without reaching help. , nu without realising it- 1 down on tno peach stone so hard I broke off three front teeth. For eight hours we walked ana Staggered through the hot sand and it .'.eerned that w must have passed tne car. Each step seemed th last that could possibly be taken, but still we continued on. By this time We were almost too weak to make headway anu felt that soon we must stop. Wp sighted the cai at last and 11 was tho most welcome thing I nave ever seen. There was another car close ly and soon the tourists reached us and poured water on our faces and gave us cooling drinks. The dof Slmpl vent r r.'UJ when they saw the W.ilei nnd drank mid d rn n k . CAR IS STARTED. We found the second car contained two professors from a California university uni-versity and they took us back to our machine. AfUr again tailing to locate th. trouble they hooki d on to Us an." to our surprise our car started. Our newly found friends, however, Kept Close to us and several times on our trip to 0den they were compelled to haul vis when our car f ailed at various times. They brought us Into nation, refusing to leave us even for a minute, min-ute, and when we arrived here at lasii I guess I gave out." Mr. and Mrs. Burton said they have been touring California and are now on their way to Washington. They Will continue the trip in their tiny car as soon as repairs are completed. They have travelled more than 15,000 miles With the small machine loaded With S complete camping outfit and tent. son IN 145TB. It was learned that tho son of the Burtons. Ambos was a membe r of the H6th field artilery during the war and returned from France as orderly to Colonel William C. Webb, regimental regiment-al commander. They said this morning morn-ing they have received no better treatment treat-ment during their months of travel than they have from Ogdon people who have done all In their power to make ih ir slay h n pleasant Mrs. Burton said. |
