Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1902-05-21
LOST ON THE DESERT.
The Pitiful Fate Of q Six-Year-Old
Boy Who Wandered Away.

Boy Who Wandered Away.
The family Of Mr.. Godfrey Hughes. a
member Of the firm Of assayers owning
the Customs Assay office, recently went
to spend the summer months visiting
friends who own a large ranch about
II miles above Albuquerque. The fam
lily consist Of the mother, two sons and
la daughter. Last Saturday the chill
dren asked permission Of their mother
to go to a corral some 300 yards away
from the house and on the other side Of
a knoll that obscured the corral from
view, to play. Permission was granted
and the youngsters bounded away for
their afternoon frolic. Soon the little
sister wearied and the elder brother
proposed that they take her to the
house. To this the younger brother.
Emerson, who was only years old,
demurred, as he wished to play more.
So the older brother took his sister to
the house. Upon arrival there the
mother asked, Where Is brother?"
1--WE left him playing at the corral"
said the boy.
The mother then sent him back for
the little truant. Shortly the messen-
ger came back, painting from his hur-
ried running, and exclaimed that his
brother was nowhere to be found; that
he was not at the corral. The fright
ened mother hurried over to the cor
raj and there found the report Of her
boy to be true. She searched and
searched. but could find no trace Of the
missing child. At last she came upon
some little footprints, showing that the
child had taken a direction the oppo-
site to what he should have taken. and
the harassed mother became more and
more alarmed as the fact that her child
had strayed and was in all probability
lost became apparent. She followed the
footprints for three miles and only
ceased because darkness was approach
ing and she was powerless and had to
call for aid. AS rapidly as her nervous
retraced steps to the house and alarmed
the household. Immediately a search
party was organized and despite the
oncoming Of night started out in quest
Of the helpless child.
Through that disheartening night the
weary search continued. And the next
day the trained services Of rs Indians
were impressed, and all that long and
trying day the search went on and yet
no clue to the wanderer. The grief and
agony Of the poor afflicted mother were
beyond consolation. The continued
discouraging reports that were from
time to time brought her only added to
accentuate her suffering. The tracks
could be followed for distance Of IL
miles and then seemed to double upon
themselves and finally became lost.
Without rest the searchers continued
In what seemed their hopeless quest.
The thought Of the poor little tot being
out upon the dreary plains alone, with
out shelter or food, wandering on the
lhelplessness Of the lost, crying possi-
bly, with fright tormented by the pangs
VI HuDBtI anu as
dening to the poor mother and friends
seeming so helpless to terminate the
trying situation.
All Of Sunday night the search con-
tinued, and early Monday morning the
father, who had been ignorant of the
tragedy, was wired. He arrived that
day and added his untiring efforts to
those Of the large party already out.
To think Of the dreadful pathos Of 1t
all! The poor child was not found un-
til Wednesday morning. 1t was then
found by a Mexican, who carried the
exhausted little form to his cabin.
where the child fingered for three
hours and then passed away. The or
deal had been beyond the little ones
endurance. The remains were taken
back to the ranch and next day were
inferred in the cemetery Of the neigh
boring village.-El Paso Times.