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Show TWO MEN ESCAPE DEATH BY THIRST IN DESERT I TokoPAH, Nov., Aug. 18. Detaals! if a successful struggle agiinst tho rlg-ora of reath Valley, which cheated th,e desolating sun of tho deaerl 0! f " I more victims, became known here today. to-day. ! ll.ir n Stlmler, 1 prospector, saved sav-ed himself and hi" comrade, William I Corcoran, after both had been ren-, dered delirious by th heat and lack! (.1 water, by making his way eight rules, most of the time on his hamfs 'and knees, to a point where his son had been left with supplies. The ti l ( took Slimier twenty-four riOUrs Hf fell uneons' iotis two hnndied . ardi ! from the camp site where his son res-; I cued him After he had revived his fathei young Btlmler hurried to Corcoran'ai aid He found him near death with, I the clothing torn from his body, which j waa lacerated by contact with brush through whi. h he had .stumbled Thirst had so swollen his tongue that 'he was unable to speak foi hour- The two men had gone into Death' Valley In search of a lend mine. |