Atthe ranch of the Union Sheep Co. some^live miles aouth of the gap. one of their^bands' of sheep (ewes) drifted by the bliz^^zard. Mr. Hopkins,!the manager, went out^to the herder as soon aa he noticed tbe^sudden changing of tbe weather, also^another hand at the ranch started but tbe^latter, not being clothed sufficiently to re^^main out in the severe atorm, stepped back^to get more clothing, and Mr. Hopkins^went on and helped tbe herder. These two^succeeded in bringing the sheep some dis^^tance towarJ tbe sbod, but seeing they^ould not proceed further Mr. Hopkins^went to the barn and hitched a team to a^sleigh having a rack with hay on it and^went with all speed back to the herder and^sheep. The sheep bad then drifted some^distance and the wind was ao strong that^it overturned the bay rack, and ail that^seamed advisable was to take the harness^off the team and try and hold the sheep^compactly. Meanwhile the third party^bad not found tho obeep and these two^men. Mr. Hopkins and tbe herder, whose^name was Kugene Watts, stayed with the^heep, holding them in a compact bunch ae^tbey were all the time ^milling^ and mov-^ng with the wind. After several hours o'^extraordinary effort the herder found he^could endure the hardship no longer and he^and Mr. Hopkins both concluded their only^hope was to go with the wind about a^quarter of a mile to a cabin ae thev^thought it impossible to facothe storm aud^get back to the ranch, although they were^not more than three-fourths ot a mile^away. So Mr. Hopkins told Watts to go to^tbe cabin and he would stay with the sheep^while longer, which ho did for about half^an hour, but when he reached the cabin^Watts was not there.
