The chronicle=news., 1913-04-08
OREHER AUTO PARTY
LOST EIGHT HOURS IN
HUERFAN0 WIlDS

II the time ever comes when the
Chamber OF Commerce or the Good
Roads .\ssScia don sets busy rad
.rccts u sign post or marker to guide
automobile tourists to the right road
between Pueblo and Wai,cnburE. ".
r. Drchcr. manager OF the Drchci
Business COLLEGE. will seek ont that
sign post or marker aud bless IL with
J,is tears. n. on Sunday night. MIR.
Drchcr had been inclined To profaL-
ity the absence OF markers where
they should have been. would hay.
been blessed with considerable en-
phasis. For six members OF the
Drchcr automobile party. including
himself. were marooncd ON the dcs-
crt for eight hours sunday nislA aud
before they got back on the main
road to wni-cnburs the machine had
tnycrscd about forty miles of coun-
/ try. and almost as many gallons of
perfectly good gasoline had been uscd
up, not 10 mention the patience OF
Mrs. Drchcr aud four stud.nis-~Fur-
ri. Crcsio. Orin Scoficld. Edna SEQ
bee and her sister.
Just how Nr. Drchrr got his ma
chine out OF the iiurrfano river In
the dark u til. neon l. n mootcd
question. The conccn.,i. OF opinion
| II that he became suddenly endowed
with tho strength of Samson and
carried IL up the embankmcnt on his
shoulders while the five other MEM
bcrs of the party took turn In carry
Ing the lap robe lie admits that
there was Just about two tablespoons
Of gasOliu, In the tank AT the time.
Maybe he addressed the machine In
q foreign langua ;c ana y miracle was
performed. Al any rate he got the
machine out OF the Hucrfano river
and started out to discover hitherto
untiaycr-cd continents while looking
for the white lights OF Walscnburg.
| II was n sad ending of u most de-
! li;htful week end automobile trip.
On Friday afternoon Mr.. aud Mrs.
Drchcr aud the students left Trini-
dad for Colorado springs. The par
| ty reached the springs at nine o.
clock sharp without n mishap. Sat
urday wns spent In motoring over the
magnificent scenic roads about the
Pike Peaks city and In u trip to Can
on City and over the skyline drive.
At eleven o'clock Sunday morning
the party started for Trinidad.
Between Colorado Springs and
Pueblo the only mishaps we're blow
outs. Each tire in turn cXplod ID
and after each explosion there was
a delay of half an hour or more. It
was jus, about dusk when the party
reached Pueblo. 1t was lust after
the party had passed the Rye cross
Ing that the machiac struck off on
the wrong road. TIL. darkness had
settled down and Dreher had gone
some ten miles before he realized
that he was seeing landmarks h had
never seen bcfotc. lie swung around
u hin along about ten o'clock. At
midnight he found lie was still
swinging around the hill aud had.
In sooth. circlcd that hill several
times. A sheep herdcr. the only hui
man being that the party cncoun-
itcrcd since leaving Pueblo. advised
them that they were still in the
United States but Il long way from
Wnlsenburg and were getting farth-
er away all the time. and that If they
persisted in circling the hill that the
machine would ultimately get dizzy.
er back-trackcd hundred miles,
more or less. and explored the depths
of the Hucrfano river.
For forty7five minutes 8 the" ma :
chine was stuck fast In the mud OF
the creek. The combined strength
Of the six was as fruitless as the cf-
forts of the freak who tried to soak
I'm the ocean with "A sponge. II was
about one o'clock yesterday morning
that Drehcr succeeded by superhum-
an effort, in getting the machine up
the steep embankment. After that
the members of the party spent two
hours in knocking at doors OF lone
ly ranch houses and inauiring II they
were In Oklahoma or New Mexico
Shortly before two o'clock in the
fmUrning the party reached Walscn-
burg. There the machine was taken
to u garage, and given drink OF
sSspltifa The ft,stAtp dawn was
just beginning to illumiur the horiz-
on OF the east, ~ 10 speak, when tho
lpnrty reached Trinidad