The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1889-09-13
STORY OF A LOST BOY.
Graphic Account OF a T hrilling Elk.
perience.
A Search That Went on for Three Days,
IN the Widest Spot In Connecticut
The Recovery and the ~
Celebration. ~

On ple morning of Memorial Day
Emil lionahatel, not quite three years
old. followed his brothers from the
(hcuse u short distance down the road
into the timber where they were 20
ing en- their business of charcoal maxi
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. IA. his brothers returned
and inquiry was at once made for lit
Tic Emil. AS he had occasionally gone
with thnm before. his sister, the only
o'le remaining at home for the day,
Supposed he had been with them. To
the horror OF all it 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
the Taconic range. near the line be.
tween Mt Washington, Mass, and
Salisbury, Conn. 1t is densely wooded
aud sparsoly inhabited for miles in
every direction. The town of Mt.
Washington itself contains neither doc
Tor, lawyer nor minister SO few are its
citizens Salisbury, the nearest viii
lage on the Connecticut side OF the
line, is seven miles away over a
rough mountain road with a steep
climb in many a place. The woods
are the home of wild cats, foxes and
occas lOnal wolves, who might readily
modest u child wandering in those
@ids The writer saw a pile of forty
eight such pelts brought down from
that region u few weeks ago, the
product of a winters catch by one man.
1t was in this locality, one of the wild
est in New England, that bare-head-
cd and bare-footeG child of two years
and nine months was lost.
The fathe, and mother were at work
two miles from home in another direc-
zion thst day. They were at once
alarm ed, and the entire family set out
upoA the search before the night closed
in. A mile and a half from tho house
the little footprints made by child's
bare feot in the mud by the roadside
were found, and that was the only
trace of him discoverable. All night
through the family sought for him
with lanterns, They had no neigh.
bors, and SO were alone in the search.
1t had rained steadily from the morn
ing of Memorial Day, and that night it
poured in torrents. What might be.
come of child chilled through with a
stor.n at night? Their anxiety in.
ere ased with every hour.
The following day fifty men were en-
listed in the search. The rain con.
tinued, and cold. dreary mist hung
upon the mountains, making many q
strong man numb with the cold and
wet The woods were searched ir
every quarter without discovering {
single trace further. All night, too
the lanterns were in use. Prepare
tions we're made for dragging certain
of the mountain ponds into which thu
child might have fallen.
The third day opened with three
hundred men in the field. BY this tint
the news had spread to many settle
ments. and the road was lined will
wagons that had brought searching
parties. The pathetic appearance o
that agonized father and mothe
touched every heart. II am poo
man." said M. Bonahatel, ''but I woul'
rather have my little boy than tel
thousand dollars" 4 he mother coul'
only walk the room in distress utterl.
tagged out with grief and exhaustion
The rain still continued. and n higl
wind accompanied it. The mist hi
every object twenty feet away. Ever.
road and clearing was minutel.
searched. Men plunged into swamp
that hardly wild cat even could pen
citrate. Several OF the parties .os
themselves, and had TO climb trees t
find their way out. The third da
closed with all hope abandoned OF find
ing the child alive. The only though
now was OF discovering the body an
relieving the agony OF the parents
who were we'll nigh dying themsolve
Of suspense and sleeplessness.
The fourth day opened with sunshin
for the first time. The mist role
away at ten o'clock. Five hundre
men were now assembled. Long line
OF searchers, ten feet apart. wer
formed. and every foot OF ground wa
minutely inspected. The party sati'
fled themselves that the child could nc
Possibly be in the territory thus gon
over. The feeling was general I'M
day that the body would now bo foun'
10 hope being entertained thai Inv "