Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Rescued From Starvation. [ARTICLE]

Rescued From Starvation.

Yesterday there arrived into the city Lafayette Pierce, the guide who was employed to conduct the party outfitted to repair to the rescue of the Denver and Rio Grande surveying corps, who were brought to a sudden halt by the surging waters of the Roaring Forks river. The water had not subsided, and for 300 yards nothing was visible except the turbulence ofthe waters that came tearing and roaring out of the canon’s mouth, sweeping everything before them. Huge boulders, weighing thousands ■of’tons, relented to tne sweeping efforts of the waters, and catching upon •ome tree trunk, settled down into the watery abode. The surveyors were looking wan and tired, and tneir sunken cheeks prated very emphatically of their sufferings. It was on Sunday morning following their departure from this place that the outfit bund the Mathias party where Pierce had left them, and they were still separated from, them by the overflowed waters. Upon reaching the almost starved men they found them in the deepest They had been living there upon nothing but deer meat for two weeks, and having no salt there stomachs soon revolted and refused to hold the meat. Forcing the deer Seat upon the protesting organs it would remain but. a moment, when they were visited by an attack of. vomiting. As soon as the rescuing party arrived they commenced the construction of a boat, and Superintendent Cook says that he expects to see the surveyors in the dty to-day. Completing the boat the men can cross, and ' the mules * will have to swim the river, which is considered extremely' dangerous. They saw Indians but were not molested, and the anticipated attack never came. The boys who were sent out bad a very' hard time reaching the Mathias patty, traveling almost day and night, ana they deserve the greatest credit.— LeadviHe Democrat.