White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-02-04
EAST ELY WHITE PINE COUNTY NEVADA SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1928

s.oU 1ieSddy night MIS-. Dugan Tell
in her tracks from utter exhaustion
She could stand no longor Her
strength had escaped her. Time and
again her husband had carried her
during the preceding day and night
His strength was all but gone, also,
and the best he could do was to leave
her in the little comfort that he could
improvise ard go on and appeal for
help
They were not three miles from
the heart of Ely. They were on the
Midland highway, up Murry canyon,
half n mile above Pilot rcek, that
giant monument nature in prehis-
toric days planted by what is now
roadside.
Mr. Dugan laid down his oyercoat
and holding her dog. which had
stayed at their heels throughout,
placed it and the woman on the coat.
Then he folded it over them. the
idea being for the dogs body to fur
nish heat to prevent her freezing to
death If she fell asleep. He told her
he would be back in an hour.
Mrs Dugan slept. At midnight
she awoke and looked at her watch.
Almost three hours had passed and
no rescuers or husband had come.
She said to herself that he was lost
and that she must arise and press on.
She raised herself to her then partly
frozen feet. Between their being
I. 4
ished she fell in the snow All she
could do was TO creep back upon the
overcoat and wrap herself and the
dog as best a chilled person, wet and
saturated with snow, could do. Thus
she remained until long after day
light. and whether she slept or suf-
fered or how she Jared only her con-
dition as she was found could ses-
tify.
Meanwhile Mr. Dugan had pro-
ceeded through the mighty banks,
with hope of seeing his wife alive
again growing DINNER. His object
i've was the ice plant. at the head of
Murry street. There he used to
work and he knew the ins and outs
of the place and how far 1t was. The
latter and the snow were the bar
riers. Ii took him eleven hours. lie
reached the ice plant at sac We'd
nesday morning.
He was too exhausted to more
than stand and tell in broken SEN
tences about his wife probably being
dead in the snow only a little above
Pilot rock, but measured In time the
distance. not much over mile. had
consumed eleven hours.
Fred Farnsworth responded in
stantly to the fainting mans appeal
He quickly mounted q saddle horse
and was of to the rescue
The telephone was used and Mayor
Gallagher called up He sent Will
liam Curto with strong team and
sled. Farnsworth and Curto picked
up the young woman and soon re-
turned her to shelter.
The Dugans were taken to the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. T. c. McCally,
on upper Murry street.-the house
where they lived after they were
married three years ago. They are
resting there now and are in bed
under the care OF friends.
DR.. NJ. j. Rand wished to remove
them to tho White Pine Genersl hos
pital, soon determining that ampu-
tation of Mrs. Dugan's toes from
both feet was imperative But she
has demurred and insists on await
ing the arrival of her mother and
father.
A telephone message to Preston
caused a horseback messenger to go
out to the Mendes home They were
expected Friday night but did not
arrive
Yesterday telephone message
came in from Preston saying that
the messenger failed 10 get through
and a second one had been dispatch
ed for Duckwater. Last night at 8
o'clock MIR. and Mrs. Mendes had
not reached Preston. A four-horse
team Is waiting for them there and
they will be hurried to Ely upon
their arrival at the former place.
Mr.. Dugan sent night letter to
his mother at Tonopah. Her reply
showed great agitation, so he wired
her again to be calm and not to come
TO Ely.
Both the afflicted pair are natives
of the desert country. Mr. Dugan of
Hot Greek. Nye coun!y-the western
Hot Greek OF the two by that name.
He is better known as Tommy Du-
gan. his nickname. He spent his boy
hood and young manhood at Tono-
pah. Mrs. Dngan was born and
reared at Duckwater.
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