Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1894 — Saved from an Awful Death. [ARTICLE]

Saved from an Awful Death.

A party of cattlemen out on the Mojave Desert recently came across the trail of two men and two burros. The aimless, zigzag course of the trail showed that those who had made it were lost, and the cattlemen at once set out to find them. Late in the evening the cattlemen came upon a young man lying under a mesquite bush, beside a hole dug six feet deep in the sand, murmuring in delirium and at the point of death. He had been without water more than three days and had lain down to die. A mile further on they overtook an old man, who, delirious, was crawling on hands and knees toward a pool of brackish water, beside which stood the two burros. The two men were miners, who had lost their way a week before. Both men recovered after a few days of care at the ranch.