Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — DESERT AUTO IS NO CAMEL [ARTICLE]

DESERT AUTO IS NO CAMEL

These Men Forget to Provide Water for Their Desert Ride and Ones Dies. Failure to think about evaporation in an automobile radiator brought death to one man and frightful tortures to two others, who arrived in Los Angeles from the desert and told of their sufferings. The trio —James S. Roche and John H. Welsh, attorneys, and James G. Clarke, a real estate dealer —left here Sunday in an automobile for El Centro, in the imperial valley. Monday morning the car stopped in the sand. The radiator was empty and they had no water. Roche and Welsh started after a mirage which they believed was the Salton sea. Clarke waited a day, and then, believing them dead, made his way to Mineral Springs, where he was resuscitated after falling himself in a faint and organized a rescue party. They found Roche unconscious and Welsh dead. Roche said they drank lubricating oiL —Philadelphia Record.