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Show POSSE OUT TO RESCUE ,m,: Prospectors Freezing and Crawling Through Fifteen Feet of Snow. Reno, Jan. 13. Joe Markley. a ranch employe, reported two unknown prospectors pros-pectors on Ross & Peterson's ranch, 28 miles north of here, almost frozen to death and crawling through the snow. Markley aided tbem as best he could as no cabin was-near and walked 10 miles through snow several feet in depth to a ranch telephone and reported re-ported the men's plight to Sheriff Fer-rell Fer-rell Markley said he was badly frost bitten, but would try to reach the men. The sheriff and deputy left this afternoon after-noon with food and medicine for the scene. It is hardly possible the men will be found alive as it is intensely cold and snow is 10 to 15 feet deep in the mountains. |