Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-28
LOST IN WOODS.
Mrs. Emhorff Found After
Terrible Experience.
Followed Deer, Last Monday
discovered, "Wednesday,
So Weak She Had TO Be Carried TO
Camp.-Many Searchars. IA


Camp.-Many searchars. IA
Patten, Me, Aug. 27..-After a search
which has lasted since last Monday
afternoon. Mrs. LEROY Enhorf. the
wife df an expressman in Providence,
K. l., was found in the woods near
Scraggly lake. 30 miles from here At
o'clock Wednesday morning by Two
men from the Godfrey Falls Dam co.
at Scbois. MIS-. Emh2rf Was found
within three miles of the little camp
on the shores Of the LAKE where she
had been STAYING with her husband
and with Mr.. and Mrs. L. W. Gh1rnley
of Providence. Her clothing was torn
and her hands and face scratched by
berry bushes. She WAS SO weak that she
had To be carried 10 camp BY ltr res
cuers. Mrs. Emhorff believes that mad
ness would have come within few
hours. As il is. her mind tettered on
the verge of insanity because of her
terrible experience.
The quartet from Providence came
to Patten, Aug. T. and registered at
the hotel here. They met a number of
the village people and made most ia
voiable impression Mrs Emhern was
a pleasant spoken, middle-aged woman
and the party seemed an especially
eongenial one. They left for Scraggly
lake the cay after their arrival oecu-
pying camp ON the shores of that
body of water, which is 80 miles from
here
Last Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs.
Chronley and Mr.. Emhorff started
from camp to cut some wood. leaving
Mrs. EmhorG in Il hammock. They
were gone some time and, when they
returned. she had disappeared as COM
Iletely- as though the ground had swal
lowed her. At first nothing WAS thought
Of the circumstances. but when the
time slipped by and she did not return,
her husband and Mr.. and Mrs. Ghorn-
ley became thoroughly alarmed.
Lumber Crews Search.
There are number of lumber camps
III the vicinity and the news of Mrs.
Emhorffs disappearance was taken to
the men. The crews knocked off work
and commenced securing woods for
miles around. All day, Tuesday, the
,nen searched, without finding even a
trace Of the missing woman. Although
there was 10 direct evidence To show
that Mrs. Emhorff had fallen into the
lake, ii began TO be feared that this
v'as what mad happened and the mes
sage was sent to Patten for graphing
irons.
Mr. Emhcrfl and Mr.. and Mrs. Chorn-
ley were utterly at loss to account
for her mysterious disappearance.
When the news of Mrs. Emhorffs
disappearance reached Patten. Tues
day night. the liyeliest concern was
manifested. posse of 20 Woodsmen
left here, Wednesday morning, deter
mined to search every square yard of
the country about Scraggly lake and
to drag that body of water with Crap
ping irons. 1t was fa.t, however, that
there was still a chance that Mrs. En-
horff might be living and that efforts
should first be directed toward search
ing the woods.
1t was about O'Clock. in the morn
ing, when two men from the Godfrey
Falls Dam co. at Sebois came acros
Mrs Emhorff within three miles OF
the camp she had disappeared from.
Her plight was a sorry one, Her face
and hands were torn and bleeding
from contact with raspberry bushes
and underbrush and her clothing was
badly torn. She was weak from ex-
haustion and lack of food and her
reason was all but gone.
*Thank God, Thank Cod" she
sobbed as the two stalwart woodsmen
picked her up tenderly and started
back toward the camp.
Her husbands JOY knew no bounds
when the rescuers arrived there with
her Mrs. Emhorn's condition contin-
ued to improve during the day and it
is believed she will fully recover with
out experimenting any permanent i'll
effects.
Followed 4 Deer.
Mrs. Emhorff was able to give a
fairly connected account of her cXpe-
rience. Soon after her husband and
the Cherneys had left her lying in the
hammock at the camp, Monday after
noon, she said she saw a deer which
approached to within short distance
of where she was resting. The ami
NAL appeared quite unconscious of
her proximity. When the deer began
to move off slowly through the woods,
Mrs. Emhorff got out of the hammock
and followed the animal. She was
intent upon keeping as close as posi-
bic and in making her way quietly.
to avoid frightening the deer. She had
followed along for considerable dis
tance-she doesn't know exactly ho@'
far-when she suddenly became aware
of the fact that the woods looked UNI
familiar. Then the dreadful knowledge
that she was lost overwhelmed her.