DESERT TRAGEDY.
IV, is ♦ cn MOTORISTS DIE OF THIRST. (Unft* v t Press Association—By .aiectrl* Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 26. A San Francisco message states that a tragedy of thirst was revealed as searchers followed a zig-zag trail of t y footprints in the California desert, j id near Niland, until they came upon I 10 the bodies of six people, sprawled face a - downwards in the sand. These had been passengers in a motor-car, which had been found by the search party. Under the car itself was the body of | a seventh passenger. He had crawled ! under the vehicle, to seek relief from I the burning temperature of 105 deg.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18329, 29 July 1929, Page 13
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111DESERT TRAGEDY. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18329, 29 July 1929, Page 13
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