Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-03-19
[Spearville Blade, March 14thl
BOY LOST AND FOUND.


posted up at the postofice, which gave
the information that boy two and a
half years old, belonging to Henry Sand
mann, a German, living some three
miles from town, had strayed from
home and was lost upon the prairie.
Eager inquiries were made to learn
particulars, which, SO far as could be
ascertained were about as follows
1t appears that short time before
Mr.. Sandman had built new house
some distance off from where they pre-
viously resided, and on Friday Mr..
Sandman hltched up and drove over
to the old place, and it seems this
and another boy about four years old,
shortly after set out to follow the
wagon. The mother supposed the
children had gone in the wagon and the
father thought they had remained at
home, hence neither gave themselves
any immediate concern about them at
the time. In the course of few
hours, the older one returned, tired out
and alone. The little fellow, it seems,
was unable to give any definite account
of himself or what had become of the
other. Search was instituted at once,
but failed to find any trace. The
neighbors, were appealed to who gener-
ally turned out and secured the country
round. A man driving along did see
the child, but paid no particular atten-
ton to it, and was unable to locate the
place where he saw it.
Night came on, cold and somewhat
windy. The superstition was the child,
unless soon found, must perish. The
search was continued all night long, but
without avail. The morning was cold
and frosty, how could a child survive
out on the prairie through such weather
as this? Search was again renewed,
something like forty men from the
country, to which twenty horseme n
from Spearville were added, continued
is bend their cxertions through out the
day. At noon and at o'clock p. m.
word was brought into town that the
child had not yet been found, and a
general gloom invo!untarily began to
creep over all the inhabinants.
A little after four o'clock that after
noon Messrs j. NJ. Roberts, of Reitler
& Stern store, and r. kolley, the
baker, started out horseback, riding
rapidly in a southwesterly direction,
intending to first go to Mr.. Sandman s
house, but not knowing the exact
locality, found, on inquiry at the house
of Mr.. Henry Phillips, that it was 81
miles northeast from the place where
they then were. Setting out at once
in that direction, and after going half
mile, they espied something that had
the appearance of bundle of rags,
they rode up to it. They soon saw that
it was the object of the search. 1t lay
in kind of humped-up heap, with
its face to the ground. A consultation
follows to determine what they should
do. Their deliberations were cut short
when the little head suddenly bobbed
up and fastened upon them wondering
gaze of pair of very bright eyes. One
of the party at once dismounted and
picked the little fellow up. He did
not cry, nor were there any traces of
tears upon his face. His little hands
and cheeks were badly swollen, and his
little legs, despatched with mud, too
benumbed to enable him to stand,
otherwise he appeared to be all right.
Despite every effort, not word could
they get out of him.
They then doubled him up in an
overcoat, one handing him up, the
other took him in his arms, and set out
for the house. To attempt to depict
the scenes upon their arrival would
require the best skill of an artist, hence
we say no more than to remark that
this is certainly very extraordinary
case. On an estimate, the little fellow,
quite thinly dressed, was out 81 hours;
had passed through a cold night, with
out food or shelter, and was found by
accident by the party last out to look
for him. At last accounts the little
fellow was all right, seemingly none the
worse off en- account of his adventure.
On Tuesday afternoon Mr.. Sandman,
with the lost boy, called at the BLADE
Office. No one unacquainted with the
circumstance ever would have guessed
the experience through which the
little fellow had so recently passed.
He is quite feshy and used to exposure,
which undoubtedly were the means of
preservation.