A TERRIBLE PATE.

Evening Star, Issue 10746, 5 October 1898, Page 2

A TERRIBLE PATE.

Colonel Phillips, the West Australian Commissioner of Police, has received two tapoits from Mount Mortimer Station, Roehttrne district, containing the melancholy intelligence that ths bodies of two prospectors, named Anderson and Power, bad recently been discovered in the bush in that locality, and that they had evidently perished from thirst. From the reports it appears that a few w eks ag’> the Mount Mortimer police were informed by letter by Charles O’Gitdy, a stockman, camped at the Twenty-mile Pool, that when riding round the fence of Coolite paddock he came across the remains of the deceased lying on bis left 'side, with his head resting on a pack-saddle. There were also lying near him a water - bag, an enamelled pannikin, and a belt with a watch pouch attached. There were no papers or articles that would lead to the identity of the deceased, who appeared to be dead six or nine months. He was a man between fifty and sixty years of age, and has been identified as John Anderson, who worked at Dead Finish two years ago. The second discovery was made by Constable Riddle, who came across the dead body of the other man Power lying at the Cooline station boundary fence. His clothing and blanket had been partially eaten away by insects. In one of his pockets was discovered a receipt in the joint names of Power &nd Anderson. Thebe men bad evidently been mates. Rower had remained in oamp While the other weiit to look for water. They were both on the same link of fence, bat about four miles apart, and both appear to have been dead some, time, and perished from want of water.