Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1893-03-25
CoRursPoSDENCE.
BEowAwk, New, March 81, 1898.

EDITOR SENTINEL: Wild geese are
very numerous this Spring.
Mr.. G. w. GrAyson, spent q couple Of
days here on his return trip from wash
ingtor, ID. c. last week.
Mr.. f. WALTZ, Of Santa Cruz, CAL,
went up to Cortez on Tuesdays stage to
visit his unfortunate brother.
Some important changes are contem-
plated being made by the railroad com
pany at the depot that will be very bene'
fetal and convenient for the agents
use 10 the future.
The Cortez boys are daily expecting
the arrival Of Mr.. Wenban and Mr.. Shaw,
and the prayer is that the gentlemen
will start up the mill aud mine very
soon and give the boys q chance to roll
up their sleeves and show them how
hard they can work for the interest OF
the wners.
March 18th a courier arrived here and
reported that Mr.. Z. ID. Waltz. who
lives in the southern part OF Eureka
county, while on his way from Austin to
Cortez, was thrown from his horse,
which resulted in the breaking OF one OF
Mr.. Wallis legs and one Of his arms.
The messengers mission here was Tor
the purpose Of securing the services OF q
surgeon to go to Cortez and set the
broken limbs. DIR. Hood left here at
9:2O p. NJ. to attend the injured man.
Nothing further was received until Sun
day, the 10th, when the following par
ticulars Of the sad accident and an &C
count Of the terrible suffering and agony
endured by Mr.. WALTZ were received;
Mr.. Walt met with the accident
about noon on Monday, the 18th. 1t
appears that the horse slipped or STUN
bled on some ice, throwing Mr.. Waltz,
the animal falling on top Of him, break
ing bis right leg near the ankle and 9TH
erwise b~ruising him. He hung onto the
bride rein until the horse got up, and
on endeavoring to stand up himself he
discovered his leg was broken, and losing
his hold on the rein the horse got away
from him. Being alone on q wild
mountain trail he realized that to stay
there meant sure death by starvation and
exposure, as the weather was cold and
stormy and to try and reach some ranch
was his only hope. With the thoughts
of q happy home and a loving wife many
miles away, anxiously awaiting his ar
rival, he summed up oil possible strength
and courage and started to drag himself
to MI. w. d. Addington's hay ranch,
which was fourteen miles distant.
Crawling on his hands and knees, inch
by inch at q time, and changing to every
position possible to relieve and least irri.
tate his broken limb, which caused him
intense suffering every time he tried to
move, thus ii was for three long days
aud three cold and stormy nights he was
slowly and painfully vending his way
over the frozen ice and sharp and jagged
rocks and ssgebrush that lay in his
pathway, with no food to nourish him
nor water to cool his burning fever. IL
was Thursday noon when he reached
Mr.. Addington's ranch, when he was
found to be more dead than alive. Faint
and exhausted from pain and hunger il
took some time to revive him enough to
tell when and where he got hurt. His
hands, arms and legs were bruised and
bleeding and terribly swollen. His
clothes were nearly all worn or torn
from his arms or legs, in his delirioua
wanderings, and a band Of hungry and
bowling coyotes followed him nearly
all Of the way. His horse kept a short
distance ahead Of the entire distance and
would not allow him to get close enough
to catch it. Owing to the limited means
at hand and the long distance to a
neighbours house it took two days more
to get assistance and remove Mr.. WALTZ
to Cortez and get q physician to wait on
him. The last report says he is doing
as well as can be expected, after
five days of terrible suffering and .ex.
posure, and it is doubtful if there
is another man in the State that pos.
sesses such wonderful vitality and cour-
age as MIR. WALTZ has shown in this in
stance. /. G. II.