The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-20
DEAD ron THREE DAYS.

DEAD ron THREE DAYS.
a resrsr. nsrssr That resH . Les 81
Ktlltag---AsA astn lives.
From the Kan Francisco Examiner.
"How does IL feel To die? Well, ! guess
! con answer that question IL any one can.
Yes, and l can tell you how Il feels % he
dead, too-so dead that they put me On
ice To keep me-"
The speaker was Ferdinand Alvares. .
borber at 1875 Kentucky street. Thcrc
had been q discussion in the shop a. %
whether death was painful or not,and this
startling statement was thrown out as the
barbe, put the fnishine touches To . rus
.Td better tell you the whole story" he
ssid; whsn pss.sssd 10 sSs sn ~s.Plana,ion:
Tom Hcrland. As you may know, that
s si%oss 4, sss a., worst sss p par cog" g l.. ana We were In
"The mountains were covered with
frosen SNOW and ] tell you We had to go
nscks: Well, we were scaling along the
side of q steep Rulch and Tom vase hum
drs eds y1 ,a , ahead ID Of r.. me- S,,, wnsn IA ! rlippsd;
to yell but 1 wa. going too fast. 1 was
bottom. hut il seemed a long time.
say tss i.sSed ar rock ,s, hcloT s.n me
me. I knew l was torn and cut by
E cks while ] was falling, hut every time
rcachcd ont my hamI. and then struck
bottom. ! felt my arm brcak-it did moi
hurt, but / felt the shock-and then some
all. The last sensation I remember was a
feeling OF nausea that was worse than all
"Tne next thing that came To my mind
was some one lifting me up. ! knew that
I had been lying still for some time, and
scHs Is S %"s m S~a %%rr rS,n: H%s va Then nn' I c fait
my feet n burning up, md then i got to
know that they had me before a hot fire
ever Thought il possible fora man to stand
II had gone on, hunting ON Friday; ii
was Monday night when i found my
senses before the fire. What happened
i'm the meantime 1 gathered after I got
but they proved il TO me i'm one way or an.
other, and ut last / had to acknowledge
that I had bean dead more than three
days and three nights.
"This IL what they told me:
ut seems that Herland did not hear or
See Ss h me 60 aown the Erechin ~ n.. after Ter
i"okina for me. He found my tracks in
To a slide in the snow. That was where I
slipped. In going down l left n regular
trench He followed il with his eye. and
down among the boulders. He tried to
get down Ia me-, but could not without
going around q great many miles. He
made no motion and the slide where i
came down was all bloody, he at last con.
went along. We were a long way out,
and he could not have reached me until
after dark. IL was night when he got To
During the night he told the ranchers. of
my death: They suggested that possibly
, would f Ss q hs sri j" "s and %S1' shc o% NEXT sso %arn !.
ing they started out with "a burro and n
lot Of ropes. When they got to the top OF
Italians wanted To leave me there, but
some one said that my folks ought to have
n chance to bury me dscently. and SO
was no way OF driving the burro to
wherc l lay, SO they tied n rope
in the party and lowered him down to me:
He tied the rope around my ankles, and
gave the word to hoist; They pulled, hut
40 soiidly that they had to quit for fear of
tearing my legs out. Tho y threw the pros
pector's pick down to the man in the can;
to 90 pull ILL., "sa i. 'They hi,cSet1 the barro to
up. They. pulled me clear OF the frozen
stuN, though my coat stuck there, and
dragged me this way by the ankles up the
they threw me across the pack with
which the jackass was provided. strapped
. nns ON a ,.x1 = " ,Sa III hil no"r ,T rhc s'n was I nor
trouble until the party reached the river.
IL was frozen over. hut the ice was quite
thin and they were afraid that the
ombiued weight of me and the jack
would he. likely to break through, so they
unpacktsl me and drove the burro across
alone. Then they tied me to the end Of u
Rata again and hauled me across the ice.
On the other side they loaded me onto the
burro again AMI began to climb the hills
toward the camp. There are lots of
t.ckiish places along that part of the coun-
try and there were lots of narrow escapes.
Once thc hitch Slipped and l fell oil. They
packed me on again. however. and Went
ON until we were within five miles of the
camp. Then they struck just such n nasty
place as l went over. The burro got
scared and balkcd They licked him and
poked him until he started on. but he had
hardly gone n dozen steps when he slipped
n I'd down we went. rolling over and over
until We reached the middle of the gorge.
The fall killed the burro, but they cut me
loose AMI hoisted me up tai the trail again.
Il that time il Wa nearly nights and
they could not go to camp for another ami
NAL and return for me-. While they were
discussing what tn do they heard the howl
of n coyote. They knew that IL they left
my body on the trail the coyotes would
not leave u bone of me. So they hoistSd
me mp to n limb of a. small pine tree, out
of the reach of the coyotes, and left ne.
The next morning the caNne out with u
pack mule and brought me into camp.
"Sometimes l wake up nights now and
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