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Show A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE IntenseHeat of California Desert Causes Death ,of a Man Berkeley, Cal, June 22. His condition con-dition bordering upon a state of nervous ner-vous collapse aixl hardly able to toll the story of hli terrible experience. Herbert Masters, the young mining: cngln-r, who was a member of tho Borax lake expedition iu which Charles Stracbor Davidson, a graduate gradu-ate of the University of California mining college, lost his life in tb intense heat last Friday, returned to his home in this city last night Ho left the five others of tho party at Raudsburg after the burial of Davidson David-son In a nub? yrave on the desert by the shores of the lake where he met his death.'. All of the others suffered suf-fered terilldy, but managed to mak i amj) after ' twenty-four hours of torture tor-ture in the broiling sun. "We arrived at Randsburg JasC Thursday and started on our trip across Borax lake ou Friday," said Masters. "The lake is a mud deposit covered by a heavy crust. Our objective ob-jective point w;s an old camp on th-s opposite shore whore we thought v would find sourt) prospectors. When wc commenced drawing our line, Davidson became prostrated with the heat, which was terrific. A little later lat-er he collapsed. Then he broke away from ns, and running about fifty feet, fell on his face. One ot the boys went back to him. Ho died shortly afterward. "One by one we followed a course toward the opposite shore. When I arrived I discovered that there was no water. After several hours wo found ail old well, but the water was sulphurous and salty and at the bottom bot-tom was a dead rattlesnake. Two ot the original party of seven had gon3 to Randsburg for batteries when we started on the trip across the lake and that left four ot us huddled together. to-gether. ,, "There was Thomas A. Graves, a mining export of Oloon, N. Y., David Bunkers, Norman Stein and myself "lu tho morning before sunrise wo took a roundabout trail skirting tho lake. When-half way to Randsburg we met an automobile party and were carried tho rest of tho way In tho ma-chino. ma-chino. That afternoon .we went out on to that seething mud lake onco more and got the bod of Davldsou. The boys made a rough pine box . aud we gave George the most decent burial wo were ca-paW? of. Tho ritual rit-ual was not much, but -It was the best we know. His grave Is out there under that . sun close . to where hj died "The others of the party are pretty pret-ty badly used up, but they will be all right It was a terrible experience experi-ence and I am through with the des-ert." |