The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-08-18

Met .n-r hoe, their own footing and plun.sd
h.adionE alter him. al three being instantly
A narrow escape In tbs mountains which
recently VA. 81 especial Interest % Chicago
avenue. IN this city Mis- Alien. an artist,
bad been vi-itine a friend In camp AZ Squirrel
Inn In the san bernatdino Mountains In
nearest railroad and In the heart OF a Wild
country
Mis-, Alien. who Is Of slight PLY .iqu-. act
old. and the friends brother. a. boy OF IS
years. They vere gone all day. but At night
l,rs became alarmed. ana a searching party
OF twenty-five miners wHs organized.
8onnres werr lighted 60 suid. the missing
~ O'Clock, when the -"archers came upon
IN, UNCONSCIOUS body OF tieoIg" iullrr lying
beside n mountain trail he Ma three
miles from the nearest camp. whittier be
MAS borne on a hastily con-tfuc'ed utter
Tho boy was restored 10 con~Sciousn"S-, bni
was unable Ia tell WHORE the Young women
were. He said that early on Friday they
had some upon a canon OF grea, SIldne.-
and beauty DESTROYS Of seeing moro Of y.
direction. scarcely noting how late u was
Nigh, comes suddenly In the mountains, and
darkness overlook them while they were
Then they r~ali,ed that they were lost
The giris became error-.'ricken aud Young
Fuller offered 90 travel back 20 camp and
get pack animals 10 bear them home The
girls promised Go remain and the boy struck
out alone. tie stufnDlfu INTO u Hfflt l~fu
trail. but was unable 10 keep In y, and at
last fell sensrle-- where he was found by
Meanwhls Miss Allen and Mics Fuller
found themselves alone IN tho darkness
Their terrors were incrpA ~-d ny the cries
Of Wild animals ~ th" hills about them n
able longer to endur. standing still they
80 out IN the direction they believed IN"
rnmp TO lic, hut IN retltN " va. ~ ~" Oh
he sear"bIns partv Witch had heard Young
Full~r's story came 10 the spot the Young
women were no longer Their" 4 po--" VS.
mad. M at San hernardino. whittier the
news had been ielrphoned. and prcpara-
tons were made ror putting every await
women struggled through tho forest, A
times exhausted. they would sink a. rest on
again by The roars Of IN" wild beasts about
them They had no food aud could md no
water. though their throRts Nere parched ana
they were nearly famiShed Nv daypt"fk
When they were NOT found where Fuller
had left them. Gn- Manner and Charles Boyd
struck out into tha woods In pursuit 81 them,
though !; sa- feared they had been carried
away by the Wild beast " daybrsGh me
way down q steep decline and every stsp took
them nearer death. The young women were
unable longer 20 hello th"m--l I've. and the two
men carried them ala miles bIcS over the
mount iinS n squirrel Inn.
These are only n few Of The dangers and
initiated they are little appreciated one Of
the most important things about thes" great
height u tho death like stiffness that prevails,
There Is no wind. There are no birds o.
chirrup above the line Of the timber tifc
shot dic- away almost i1stint!y. without echo
height are mute. Above lie the solemn peaks.
cold and hf-l~-s. showing here and there the
tlacs en"n RIBS o stone Jut'ing % "i the
eternal snow
livery step I. an effort Breathing Is dim
cult and the heart ruttsrs like an Imprisoned
hlrd 1ht. inAhlltN Of the lungs and heart
90 perform their functions AZ ! IMMENSE heights
II the great deterrent e. mounttin scaling
IL h believed that for this season. " for no
other. Mount Everest In the Himsla vas never
will b. scaled. The hishc-, point yet reached
was by Nhynper. when he stood upon the
summit Of Chimborazo In the Andes, 20.bIS
feet above the ga.