The San Francisco call., 1910-06-22

out it. How he did it 1 can't
lima gine-
1t doesn't look like hard trip
only five or six miles-but any
body who has gone through or
deals Of the desert knows what
those few miles meant to US. In
our frequent rests we conserved
what strength we had. although
just TO rest in this cauldron of
heat was hardship great enough
to upset anybody.
Other details of the awful jaunt carr
the narrative to this point:
We hit upon the device of light
ing a huge fire from refuse wood
among the Shacks. and by this guild
ance Baudin climbed out of the sink
and reached us at o'clock. Two
hours later. when we were begin
ming to give them up. Badger, who
had left the body of Davidson, and
Bunker, who had become separated
from Stines, craWled up the hill and
Joined us. AS each man arrived we
fed him carefully with water and
then washed his feet and made him
go to bed in eXtenporized hunks.
which we made from abandoned
blankets which we had found.
MATCHES GUIDE WANDERER
About midnight, when we We're
trying TO sleep. we heard yell.
which we recognized as coming
from Stines. We answered, and as
the bonfire had gone out we lit
ma atches and thus guided him into
camp. He had made the trip slowly
and was not as exhausted as we
had feared heswou1d be-
The next morning our little party
started back-not over the lake,
but around il. Once we found our
road turning into the treacherous
mud, which had caused our disaster
of the day before, and we promptly
turned back into the hilly country,
making a long ietour. which event
ually brought us to a lone shack.
where after much search we found
q drum full of good water
This was after we had travelled
seven or eight miles on empty stom-
achS in another day of binding
heat. We found a stove, and by
picking UP coffee grains out OF the
dust In the cabin, unearthing lone
potato and a few beans, we made
as frugal a meal as I ever ate.
AUTO HELPS STRAGGLERS
Stines was not with u.s. He had
Jagged behind again, begging to be
allowed TO strike his own pace. He
had canteen with him, and the
under a sage brush. resting.
strange party in an automobiie
picked him up, and after we had
discerned the machine and had
waved frantically to its driver we
were also picked up.
After we had been taken back to
our original destination on the
western shore of the lake, we set out
the next day TO recover Davidson's
body. A machine was sent out, fol-
lowing the course he took. The
sticky mud begged it after it had
gone two miles, and it was neces-
sary TO send a second machine out
to rescue it. In the meantime
party had trudged on. found the
body, picked it up and started to
carry it back to the shore.
BURIAL IN DESERT SAND
The task was a terribly difficult
one. and it was soon found impos-
sibIe. The rescuers, Bray and
Graves, were able to get the body
only on dry ground, a mile and a
half from shore. Then, with Shovels
and picks, a grave was dug, SIM
pie pine coffin, cloth lined in a
rough way, was sent to them. and
there, out in the dazzling glare of
that desert, they buried our friend
and read simple burial service
over him. The grave is marked and
the family will be able to recover
the body whenever it desires to
remove it.
Aside from great physical ex-
haustion and the strain of the
whole ordeal, the other men in the
party are in good shape. little the
worse for their awful experience.
All are now at Mofave, awaiting
final orders in regard to their next
movements.
Norman c. Stines, in whose machir
the party travelled, is expected by n
wife to arrive here tomorrow. He
one of the best known of the younge
graduates of the university. He is
member of the class Of 1905 and ,
Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.