Lost for Days in the Grays Harbor Wilderness

John Lauterbach, a well-known farmer, and his brother, over 60 years old, who lately came to South Bend from the east, went hunting early Saturday morning in the hills north of Riverside. Before noon they were separated, agreeing to meet later at a certain spot. John did not see his brother again that day, nor the next, though he sought him diligently, at first alone, and then with the aid of a large party mustered from the Willapa neighborhood. Monday the hunters numbered forty, but by nightfall, the quest having proved unavailing, they returned to their own homes. Henry Stevens, an expert woodsman, said that before he turned back he would find the missing man or his remains. Stevens prepared to camp for the night, and was building a fire, when he heard a faint hallooing a little way off. Proceeding in the direction of the sound, he presently came upon the lost hunter, who was in a pitiable plight from starvation and exposure to the rain, which had prevailed all the time of his wandering. The hardship and fright had the old man demented and he told his rescuer that he was waiting for the steamer to take him up the river. Later, he explained that he had gone to sleep with his gun leaning against a spruce tree, and when he awoke the gun and tree had been taken away, and the place was all changed. He was rescued about a mile from the locality where the brothers had parted, and within two miles of the river. Mr. Lauterbach has been brought to a doctor. His physical frame is not entirely recovered, but it is hoped he will be in mental and bodily health in a few days.