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Show pellcd to leave his partner and pressed onward toward the switch. The cold of the canyon and tho deep snow, however, forced him to retreat, and the next morning he again reached the scene where ho left his partner, only to find him dead. It was Fahey's Idea to go to the switch and then bring help to the exhausted man, but ho was unable to do It. Fahey then went back to tho cabin, where ho remained until he was found today! Fahey Is 27 years of age and his parents are In the east. Tho man was found by Deptuy Sheriff Hales, Sheriff Judd and County Physician Palno, who met him with a sleigh, In which ho was taken down the canyon, a distance of seventeen miles, to tho switch. It Is feared by the pbysklan that one, If hot both, of his feet will have to be amputated. Until Fahey was found, the Identity of the man whose dead body was found last Tugs- ' day remained a mystery. That Fahey did not succumb to cold and starvation 1g considered a miracle. FRED ERWIN FAHEY RE8CUED FROM DEATH Prove, Feb. 25 After being without with-out food or nourishment of any kind except a small sack of salt, since last Saturday, and with his feet badly frozen, froz-en, Fred Erwin Fahey, the partner of Gethart Slebel, . the man who was frozen to death and whose body waa discovered by a hearchln? party Tuesday Tues-day morning, was found by the same party today at Rangers' cabin, where the two men had stopped last Friday night. f , 'The nn, it develops, were on their way down Spanish Fork canyon to Diamond Switch; the headquarter of the Strawberry Irrigation Project company, whero they hoped to obtain work. They left the cabin Saturday morning, but Gethart Slebel was overcome over-come by the cold. Fahey was com- |