MRS YELVERTON LOST NEAR YO SEMITE.
• The Marioposo Gazette, of November 11, says: — "We learn that the Hon. Mrs Yelverton met with a serious misfortune on Sunday last, in attempting to leave Yo Semite Valley.unattended. Mrs Yelverton had been spending several months at the Valley, and on Sunday morning started alone on horseback from Hutching's hotel to come out to Clarke and More's expecting to overtake on the trail an English party which left an hour or so before. Nothing more was known of her journey until Monday morning whenFrederick Leidig and Hugh Devanay toook the trail to come to Mariposo. About a quarter of a mile below the " Hermitage " they noticed a woman's track in the snow on the lower side of the trail, and wandering away from it, and knowing that Mrs Yelverton had attempted to pass out the day before, were satisfied the tracks were hers, and immediately began a search for her. The tracks led round among the trees, bushes, and rocks, a circle of more than a mile, and Mrs Yelverton was finally found wet, chilled, bewildered and exhausted, about a quarter of a mile from where she had left the trail. She had been out through the storm of Suuday night, and would probably soon have perished but for a fortunate chauce. As it was snowing again when she was found, the track in the snow, which attracted the notice of the gentleman named, might not have visible an hour later. Nothing was to be seen of her horse. When the gentleman had brought Mrs Yelverton back to the trail. Mr Hutchings came along, also on his way to Mariposo, and she was placed upon Hutchings' horse and taken to Leidig's hotel, while Mi; Hutchinge went to search for her horse, wluch found a mile or more this side of the Hermitage. At Leidig's, Mrs Yelverton was at times unconscious ; but with proper restoratives and the kind, care of Mrs Leidig, was sufficiently recovered to be removed towards evening to Hutchings', where she had been boarding. It is supposed Mrs Yelverton became so bewildered in the snow-storm of Sunday afternoon that' she could no longer manage her horse, and dismcunted and tried to walk back, but lost her way, and wandered exhausted. Considering that she was five miles from any house, and the other circumstances detailed, it is very fortunate that the mishap did not prove worse in its consequences.
MRS YELVERTON LOST NEAR YO SEMITE.
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3108, 27 January 1871, Page 3
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