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The sled had teen packed with our dunnage and a group of 3 of our party- 
had started on the trail down river. A second group of 3 (including 
myself) started a few minutes later, leaving the ghird group of 3 to 
follow immediately. This third group was made up of our guides and driver, 
with the pack sled and horse frhich had been left^at the foot of the 
mountain^, 1 had tramped perhaps a quarter of a mile down the trail when 
I heard faintly what 1 thought was three whistles back of me. I stopped 
and listened. The signal was repeated-unmistakably three whistles. 
I immediately replied with 3 whistles and tried to relay the signal to 
the group ahead but failed to get any response. We all dropped our 
packs beside the trail and the two men with me (Dodge and Mackenzie) -it 
hurried back while I rushed ahead to get the signal to the 3 ahead before 
they had gone too far. After hurrying down the trail for,* half mile ear- 
-ee I finally got the signal to them and when 1 was certain of their reply 
I turned back to find out what was the trouble. 
It seems that as the feorse started across a low narrow corduroy 
bridge over a quagmire one of the runners on the sled bumped against a 
projecting log so hard that the horse was thrown sidewise off the narrow 
bridge into the quagmire. When I ferst saw the horse she was on her side, 
two feet on tap of the bridge and two underneath it and most of her body 
submerged in the watery mud, but her head held above it. She was kicking 
in a fashion that would have do.e credit to an old-fashioned threshing 
machine ap'd the mud was landing on everything and everybody within 
ten feet of her. Before I got back to the scene of the accident the men 
had succeeded in removing the harness and unhitching the sled, w r hich 
fortunately eemained on the bridge. It took us more than a half hour 
to get that horse out of the mudhole. We got ropes around her legs 
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and tried to pull her ©way from the bridge ©stf we all feared shewould 
