Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-07-10
Hazardous Experiences Of The Brave
Mn Who Carried /.
FROZEN FEET AMI SWOLLEN LIMBS
ROrdng The Raging iorrenis-Snow
Hanks as Dressing tooms-"Ben
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streams IN the spring, irregular anu
improper food, deprived Of comfortable
beds anu natural rect for Jays at q
time. have seen rlderH anu drivers
with their finger ends burst open and
covered with running cores, and their
knees and thighs black anu blue and
ennamed from pounding them to keep
from freezing, In the winter OF 1861.
A passenger frCzs to death ut the
Little Mountain IL lSb9-6O. West, an
agent OF the road, was irozen at Cache
| Cave, 10 that he was cripple
for life. John Miller mad his feet
frozen 20 badly that both
hau to be amputsted, and In July,
1860, Mt strawberry Greek, 10 one OF
tauAe South Pass istorms OF sleet VIM.
Asntop had one side OF his body so
badly frozen It had TO be ihaweu cut
In snow and several head OF mules
perisbed a. the same time.
Iu the spring anu early summer the
streams were high, the lords, II any,
emitting and treacberous. In 1862 Tom
Lou1on and the coach team were
drowned In Bear river, and u short
time before a coach team was drowned
and tho mali lost IN swollen gulch.
In the winter the channels o. tue
streams would bs open, and 1t was like
crossing a ravine with perpendicular
banks to attempt to pass them, and
often the coach would DE LETT In the
channel, and the team taken for shell
ter and iced miles away, and for help
10 return aud cut the Ice.
| Thrau affaama n fhe apriuu n nd he .
ginning OF summer were swollen out
OF their banks, flooding the country
from butte to butte, and one or two In.
stances will serve to illustrate the dlfil .
Guilty and danger In passing these
stIesms at that season OF the year. In
the spring OF 1862, John Burnett, Thos.
DobsDD, "Bsp" Worley, myself and
a Mr.. Bosrdmap, booked for Carson
City as passenger, anu although no
mails were being carried ut the time,
we had started out to take BOsrdman
to Salt Lake CITY, and when we cam G
to Yellow creek, Insignificant In Ito
normal condition, 1t was ew0llen out
OF its baDks,aDd Il odlng the country, its
channel 81 rsgiDg torrent. OF course
we had to cross IL ana Dobson "trip.
ping, mounted Grey Lucy, an amin a
as true as truth itself, and with cord
In his teeth attached to q rope and the
other end of the rope fastened to tue
team, he plunged In and swam, the
horse aorcss pulled the rope over with
the cord, and with the aid OF The
horse assisted the team over with the
rope. Burnett, the driver riding the
near wheeler, Dobson with the rope
iecrossed. The rope was fastened to
the pole and Dobsou returning to the
! team the coach was eased into the
channel and pulled over. Boordmsn
having been first lashed TO the hind
! shoot" Rnd in raising the opposite ba n k
the boot with Boardmin was
submerged. Worley and / went
up stream and stripped with our
clothes fastened to our heads swan
across and dressed on snow drift, land
the sensations produced frym the
headlopg current, halt frozsn slush
and biocBe OF Ice bntfeting our naked
bodies. 1 never want 10 experience II
again. Boardman never forgavs Wor.
) 10y for fastening him to the hind boot
instead OF the front. for II the team
ALTERED or failed to raise the coach ou
OF tho channel no would have surely
drowned. 1t was Boaruman's fire
essay at lilo In the wild and woody
West. He had just been held up by
the indiana ana some OF his party
wounded, and l manifested some sym
Iatby for him, In return for which b,
nave me an "ordei" on the Indians To-
his clothes, revoiver and toilet set theI
had robbed him OF. l respected hi
simplicity and accepted the order
but learning afterwards tina
, the young Araphahos who got hi
toilet let had set up barber an,
. dentistry chop 10 his village. l wa
loath TO deprive the Indians OF thes
. civllzing influences and did not pre-
sent the order.
I On another occasion Dobson exhibit
ed the stuff OF " hioh he IL made. L
May, 1862, we were returning tn
stock to portion OF the road iroI
which we had moved It on account c
Indiau depredatione, We came
Hams FIrk where was collected
:, large bcuy OF men and teams on the
way east 10 assist the Mormon hmm
grafton. The stream was fearful
swollen and Bromley the agent OF til
Overland arranged with the men
assist US in return for our help.
n wagon boxes were cAulkeJ TO suppl
d the plsce OF boate, some teamn wei
II gotten across, ropes attached TO eac
II ed with the baggage and supple
,. This ses-saw ferry apparatus was set
motion, the boats being drawn aero
: by tho teams attached TO the rOp
r and then pulled to dry land. Ait'
/ the baggage anu supplies were Ov,
the coaches and wagons were take
L over In The same manner. Then can
the forcing over OF the oxen, hors
and mules. In driving the ma
animals into the stream 1t was mt cs
sary for several Of us TO gather some
tue most refractory and timid ones
the tails and go (ihis ia more safe tn
riding on their bucks) over with Tia on
70 In struggling with the current son
OF the animals became excit,
and one large mule in attemE
Ing to climb onto Dobson strut
him with It's fore eel forcing him u
yer and narrowly escaping urownin
Il, "Tom," no douot, has often speculate
;" who would be ON bis beat had tn
been his end, On this occasion Dbl
son and others were in the water du
ing daylight for some three dsys.
The iare on the road except near Il
towns anu trading posjs was OF Il
coaiRest KIDD, curslsting Of salaratl
bread. beRus, rice, dried apples (ol
ETY. ey Ben Holidays "ehicksn
anu occasionally aJme VI Beu's tuIke
Ben Holldsy's chicken, though Il
sacks containing II were branded
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