Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-02-12
SNOW STALLS AUTO
PARTY ON DESERT
HENRY BARTLETT AND FAMILY
RESCUED BY JAMES
TRAVERS.

The Round Mountain Nugget fiyer
and the automobile of DRY Wash
Thomas Wilson are stalled at Span
ish Wells, between here and Man
haitian. Both machines left Man
haitian before dark on Monday night
and as neither showed up at mid
night, rescue party went out after
them In the flyer were Henry Bart
lett, Mrs. Bartlett and their little
child. They were expected at the
Bartlett home, and as time wore on,
and nothing was heard from the
travellers, Mrs. George Bartlett and
her mother, Mrs. Gates, became very
much worried. Henry Bartlett had
telephoned from Manhattan just be-
fore the start was made.
! On Sunday night there was biz
card on the desert, and the snow was
drifted and packed The flyer had
to be hauled out of Manhattan to the
summit by a stout team, but Mr..
Bartlett reckoned that from that
point everything would be lovely
James Travers was looking for Mr.
Bartlett, and kept in touch with the
Bartlett house. When the flyer had
not put in an appearance at midnight
Mr.. Travers began to get busy The
reports which had been received
from the Manhattan road were not
reassuring, and at / o'clock in the
morning, Jim started out to get an
automobile. The only man he could
run down at that time was Shorty
kutchnau, and the latter willingly
consented to make the trip in Nal
colin Macdonald's new Simplex. A
better selection could not have been
made.
A few days ago the Round Noun
tain Nugget flyer came into town
with a bar of bullion, and there was
a rumor on Monday night that the
machine was coming in with another
shipment of gold. This rumor reach
ed police headquarters, and Detective
Budd Carberry met Travers as the
latter was about TO start. He told
him of the rumor and offered ia
make one of the party in case there
had been holdup on the desert. The
three men got away from here about
O'Clock in the morning.
The machine had not got over the
summit before it was plunged into
the snow, but the machine is vel
equipped for all kinds of weather
on the desert, and managed to ge,
through without mishap, to the water
station at Rye Patch. Nothing ha5
been heard of the Bartlett party anG
the machine continued on to Spanish
Wells. This was the worst part Of
the trip, and it was case of shovel
ing snow for good bit of the road
but the rescuers stuck to the worl
until they got within three miles O.
the Wells. They could get no furth
er, and Shorty volunteered to wall
to the Wells to get water and to in
form the party If they were stalled
there, that aid was at hand. Thi
was at o'clock in the morning, anC
! 1t took Shorty nearly three hours
S to make the trip through the snow
: He met the party at the Wells anC
i also found Tom Wilson there. H,
a informed them of the impossibilit.
/ of their getting any further.
It He went back to the Simplex on
t wagon, taking with him Mrs. Bartlett
@ and her baby, and it was not Ions
/ before the start was made for Tono
pah. The trip in was made in jus
one hour and half one of the mos
remarkable rides ever made acros
" the desert
e Mr.. Bartlett had passed Spanisl
" Wells on the night before. but go
Y only five miles when it was discov
n cred that the batteries We're weak
+ and the machine just managed t,
If crawl back to the Wells. A mes
+ senger was dispatched on horsebacl
l. to Manhattan to telephone of TIL
mishap into Tonopah this morning
A four-horse sleigh was to leave Man
haitian last evening and pick up tn
wayfarers at the Wells. The sleigi
II was due here at an early hour thi
is morning
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