People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1893 — ON THE YUMA DESERT. [ARTICLE]

ON THE YUMA DESERT.

Rescue of Prospectors Who Had Nearly Died of Thirst. San Diego, Cal., Oct. 26.—-John P'ulzer, a young miner, and Conrad Limerick, an old German, were rescued on the desert between here and Yuma, on October 10, by Joseph A. Allison and T. H. Silsby, of this city, after they had endured a most frightful experience in which they nearly died of thirst. Neither of the men was used to desert traveling and they took few of the precautions customary with old prospectors. When found Pulzer had been without water three days. He had dug a well 6 feet deep for water, but without success, and crazed with delirium he had lain down to die. His companion, whose strength failed some miles back, had crawled under a mesquite bush and recovered strength sufficient so that he had next day gone back over the trail to Brackish pool where he had remained in reach of water. The men are now at Allison’s ranch, on the border of the desert, where they are fast recovering.