Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-29
LOST IN H WOODS.

Far up in the northern part of the
State Of Michigan, a peninsula called
Keweenaw Point, extends for fifty miles
into Lake Superior. Along its western
shore runs the main road, from which
branch many others, leading to the
numerous copper mines situated in this
region-among which the Calumet and
Hecla, Allouez, Phoenix, Delaware and
Schoolcraft are most famous. The
eastern shore, being still covered with
wild woods, is overgrown with thick
underbrush, and intersected here and
there by short, swift streams.
During the week, the men of this
peninsula are almost all at work under
the earth, and the country seems eser-
ted, though many little wooden houses
and log huts with single roofs dot
the region near the mines. But on Sun
days men literally spring up out of the
ground, and groups of miners appear
everywhere, enjoying the only day they
have to see the sunshine, the lake, the
trees and the flowers.
Amid the dense forests to the south
and east grow quantities of berries and
wild small fruits; and on the morning
of Friday, July 81, 1882, a merry party
Of four children started into the woods,
expecting to fill their tin pals with
blue-berries before many hours. The
children were Mary Palson, a girl of
thirteen; her younger sister, Margaret
Pa'son; Theodore LORE, a boy of nine;
and his sister, Arminda LORE, who
was but seven years old. They pro-
ceeded on their journey in gay spirits
and came ere long to the mouth Of one
Of the mines, called "The Wolverine"
where the father of the Torres was en-
Rloyed. Alas, for their days sport!
The father happened to see his children,
and, fearful of their getting lost in the
dense woods, he bade them 60 back to
their home. All four of the children
obeyed his injunction, but on their
return iourneythey mistakenly followed
smother road than that by which they
had come, until they finally discovered
that, instead of bringing them nearer
home, it was really leading them
farther and farther into the forest.
After plodding patiently IN for an
hour, the boy asked the three girls to
SIT down and wait while he searched for
the right road. But his little sister
chung to his hand, preferring to 60
along with him; and so the children
separated in pairs. The Palson sisters
chose a path leading to the north, and
followed it all day and until they came
a last to the bank of a river, where
lhey were found on the evening of the
next day, and returned in safety to
their home.
But the Torres? They had not re-
narned when their late companions were
brought in, nor had any news been
heard Of them. Mary and Margaret
could only indicate vaguely the locality
ol the spot in the woods where they had
last seen the brother and sister, a. they
oade them good-by; but several parties
Immediately started out in search. The
father and older brother of the children,
IN company with friends, had been seek
ing the missing ones during Saturday.
t ana on Sunday night a party discovered
Tue children's tracks in. the soft ground
near a river. But they were soon los1
NJ the mud, and the most thorough
search in the neighboring woods proved