Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-10-22
STORY OF A LOST BOY.
Graphic Account of T thrilling Elk
perience.
A Search That Went ON for Three Days.
In tho widest Spot In Connecticut
The Recovery and the
Celebration.

/ -The recovery anu the
| Celebration.
On the morning OF Memorial Day
Emil Bonahatel, not quite three years
old. followed his brothers from the
house short distance down the road
into the timber. where they were go
ing on their business OF charcoal max
ing. He was sent back, and was aft
erward seen about the barn at eight
o'clock. Presumably he followed them
again later, at any rate he disappeared.
and nothing was known OF his where
abouts until long afterward.
At five p. m. his brothers returned.
and inquiry was at once made for lit
tie Emil. AS he had occasionally gone
with them before, his sister. the only
one remaining at home for the day.
supposed he had been with them. To
the horror OF all 1t was reported that
they had seen nothing OF him. The
child had been lost sight Of for nine
hours.
The Bonahatels live on the top OF
me laconic range near tne line DC,
tween Mt Washington, Mass, and
oopeoury' Conn., ~ Is aenseiy woooeo
an& sparsely inhabited for miles in
every direction. The town OF Mt
Washington itself contains neither doc
tor, lawyer nor minister. SO lew are us
II
citizens. salisbury the nearest VII
lage on the Connecticut side OF the
line, is seven miles away over a
rough mountain road with a steep
climb In many place The woods
are the home OF wild cats foxes and
occasional wolves, who might readily
modest a child wandering In those
wilds. The writer saw a pile OF forty
eight such pelts brought down from
that region few weeks ago. the
product Oh winters eaten by one man.
II was In this locality, one OF the Wild
est In Now England. that a oare-head-
ed and bare-footed child OF two years
and nine months was lost
Ihe father ana mother were AT work
two miles from home In another direc-
ton that day. They were at once
alarmed. and the entire family set out
upon the search before the night closed
In. A mile and half from the house
the little footprints made by child 9
bare ieet In the mud oy the roadside
were iouno' ana thas was me only
trace OF MN uiscoVeraoie. All nlgh'
through 'ne ianiiy sought ior MN
win ian'erns' ihey haa no heiRh'
DORIS ana 80 were alone III inc search
~ hao raiheo sCeadny from tue morn
ing Oh Meihoria Day una mat hiRht IL
poured In torrents. "hat might DO
come oi emu cnlieu through win
storm al nigh~ iheir anxiety IN
ereasoa Win every nour'
inc ioiie"ing gay MY men were en-
iistea III tno search. Inc RUN con-
'lhued, ana u coid' dreary mist hunR
upon Inc mountains making many =
s'rohg man humo win inc cola ana
wei Inc WOODS were searcneo iu
every quarter without discovering
single trace iurther All nigh1 100
lhe lanterns were IN use rrepara'
'iohs were n''a' ior ura sing cer'ain
OF inc mountain ponds in'o "nich inc
chllu might nave ia''eh'
The third day opened with three
hundred men In the heid' by this time
the news hau spread 10 many settie-
ments' and the road was lined with
wagons that had Drought searching
parties Inc pathetic appearance OF
that agonized father and mother
touched every heart Il am poor
man. said NJ Bonahatel, but would
rather have my little boy than ton
thousand dollars ne mother could
only walk the room In distress utterly
Jagged out with grief and exhausuon'
The rain still continued. and hlgh
wind accompanied It The mist hid
every object twenty feet away. Every
ROAD ana clearing was mlnutely
searcheu, men piuhseu ih'o swahps
'hat hardiy wiid ca' even couia PEN
etraVe' oo'erai vi 'he Par'ieS ioe'
themselves anu ma u ciinD trees 10
ma thelr way ouN Inc 'nira Gay
CLOSED Win al nope hDahuoneu OF hha'
ing the chliu allVe' Inc only thought
now was OF discovering the Dody ana
renewing the agony OF the parents,
VINO were wen hlgh dylhg themselves
oil suspense ana sieeplcssness'
The fourth day opened with sunshine
Tor the hrst tme' Inc mist roileo
a"ay ~ 'eh ooiooN, rive hunureu
mon "ofo nov a'Seiioiou' Long iine'
OF Searcne,s' 'en iee' apart wore
'oriaeu. anu e'ory 'oor VI srounu We"
minuteiy inspec.eu' ine purity sa'is'
hed themselves INA. ''o emu oouiu nos
possibly 20 III 'ne territory mus sone
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