The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-06
SCORES OF MEN
IN SEARCH FOR
DEMENTED GIRL
Fate of Girl Wandering Near
Granite StirS Entire
District.
FOOTPRINTS FOLLOWED
UNTIL TRAIL IS LOST
1T is BELIEVED SHE HAS PER-
ISHED UNLESS SHE HAS
FOUND SHELTER.

The fate of the demented girl who
is wandering in the vicinity of Gran
tie is attracting deep interest among
the residents of the district. Scores
of men, spurred on by the women who
are alarmed over the plight of the I'M
fortunate girl because of the storms of
yesterday and Wednesday, have Joined
in the hunt Although the young wO-
man has not been located, tracks left
by the strange wanderer have been
found which proved that she was alive
as late as ? o'clock yesterday morn
Ing.
A party of young men from Granite
who had taken up the search at night
fall on Wednesday. when Deputy Sher-
if Joe Sharp abandoned the hunt and
returned to Salt Lake for the night,
found footprints in the snow which had
been made by the girl. This was at
9 O'Clock on Wednesday night. They
followed the tracks until 2 o'clock yes
terday morning. Then the tracks sud
denly disappeared and the searcheTs
were compelled to abandon their quest.
Believed to Have Perished.
Many people now believe that the
girl will not be found alive. They do
not think that she could have survived
last nights storm, even though she
lived through yesterday. Some express
the opinion that if the searchers fail
to find the body today, it will be be
cause it is covered by snow. If the
hunt is abandoned during the next few
days without the discovery of the body,
these people believe that the remains
will remain where the hapless wan
derer persisted until summer, when
they will be found by some one ram
bling among the hills east of Gran
ite
The conviction that the girls eondi-
ton called for the utmost exertion of
those who would be her rescuers caused
about twenty young men. under the
leadership of S. A. Graham, son of
j A. Graham, to start out in the snow
on Wednesday night, after Deputy
Sheriff Sharp and his assistants had
abandoned the search for the night.
Another Search Party.
Yesterday another search party was
in the field. Every nook and corner
of the Walker Judge, Green, Hill and
Moses farms was searched. This en-
braced an area of more than two
square miles.
As the girl was not found, the search
will again be taken up today. So far
as could be learned, no party went out
last night.
1t was these young men who found
the footprints of the girl and followed
them until 2 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. They started from the Graham
home at Eighteenth South and Elev-
enth East streets and did not return
to their home until. worn out with
their long tramp and convinced that
they could do no more until daylight
they were forced to reluctantly give up
the search.
/ In following the footprints through
the snow. they were led to an old house
on the Moses farm. AS they drew near
the house their hopes rose high, as
| they believed that the girl must have
taken shelter here and that the hunt
was nearing an end. They were deep
| ly disappointed on finding that the
tracks led past the house and into a
thicket to the east. The girl had ap-
| parently not stopped at the house. Per-
haps, not being able to understand that
inside the house she would be shell
tered from the snow and the chill of
the night, she fled past it, thinking
only of some phantom danger back Of
Lap Robe Found.
Deputy Sheriff Sharp did not go
to Granite yesterday. being detained
/ in Salt Lake on other business of i'm
portance at the sheriff's office. He
/ said last night that he would join the
hunt today
The searchers yesterday examined
/ the territory along Big Cottonwood
] creek from KnudsOn's mill to BeDzon
/ bridge a distance of three miles below
the mouth of Big Cottonwood canyon.
Strips torn from a wOman's skirt were
| found. These fragments caused the
| belief that the girls garments must
have been torn to tatters by this time
/ in her mad rush through the sage
| brush and thickets along the creek
/ They also caused greater apprehension
| concerning her. If her clothing has
| been partly torn from her. it is feared
/ that she has even less chance Of sur
viving the stormy weather of yester-
| Hnn+inued an Pare