The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-03-22
LOST ON a MOUNTAIN.
The Terrible Experience ofa Mountains
GERS Wife and Her Miraculous Es-
From Letter to the San Jose Mercury.

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Early on "Wednesday morning, Mrs
Ringer, who, with her husband and two
children, lives near the summit of Mount
Day, the highest peak which lies TO thu
north of Mount Hamilton, left Ter home
in search of her cows. which were but a
short distance away Ii was a cold freeZ-
Ting day. raining and showing alternately
The woman was slightly near sighted
and the stormy weather assisted in con-
fusing her and she became bewlldered
and instead, of going home .as she thought
took the opposite direction, and soon was
hopelessly lost. About noon her husband
became alarmed at her prolonged absence
and went in search OF her, and at night
not getting any trace of her, aroused the
neighbors, and soon n dozen sturdy
mountaineers were searching the rough
mountain sides and deep gorges of Mount
Day.
Camp fires were built all along TIT
mountain sides, and the luHd glare shoi
up toward heaven. lighting up tile dee9
gorges to guide the wanderer home Al
daylight the following morning a system
atic plan of search was arranged, and
each party took its course, with the I'm
derstandiag that three signal guns should
be fired in case she was found. Like al
persons who are lost, she crossed and re
crossed her tracks so that it was almost
impossible TO get ''hot" trail, owing tc
the rough nature of the ground
The party searched faithfully til
late in the afternoon, when one
after another dropped off and re
turned home, worn out with hunger and
fatigue. 10 recuperate before renewing
. the search. No person thought it posi-
BILE for the woman to live through. the
night, as she was very thinlys clad and
bareheaded. SIS -
But there was one man IN the crowd
an old mountaineer, who determined not
10 quit the search while a ray of hops
| remained of finding her alive. and, strange
to say, he was successful. About 3 p. N
of the second day of search three signal
guns were heard booming up the deer
gorge through which Smith creek III rs
proclaiming the glad tidings that the lost
was found. don't know whether there
was N"joy in heaven" or not, but l do
know there was JOY in this neighborhood
and many an eye glistcned with tears OF
gladness. The man of whom | speak is
]. r. Kincaid, or Bob" Kincaid, as he is
known all over the mountains, poor in
this worlds goods, but with heart as
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string always hangs out, bait for every
tramp, dead beat and sponge OF the noun
tains, who never miss meal and never
pay cent.
With the instinct of an old hunter, he
OWNED her course and followed it to g
successful end. He followed her for five
miles from her home, through the deer
and almost impossible gorge below the
junction of Smith creek with the San Isa
bella. Many places she had slipped ant
rolled twenty or thirty feet. and one place
100 Yet, strange to say. not a bone il
her body was broken. When found SHE
| was just sinking into an insensible sleep
which would have known no waking
| kidcaid took OF his shoes and covered
her naked feet, and his .clothes anC
wrapped her in Them. built fire ano
warmed and rubbed her into semi-con-
seriousness, and with the assistance which
the signal guns had brought, he carried
her to her home, which she reached ut II
O'Clock p. M, just thirty six hours from
the time she left it. in an insensible con
dition, but in fair way for recovery.