William Durrant's survival of a broken leg in the mountains

“A young man named Wm. Durrant, of American Fork, about 17 years i age, recently: had a terrible experience. He had hired as a sheep herder, and started to walk to American Fork Canyon, to where the sheep camp was located. After traveling several miles over the mountains, he fell and broke his leg just above the ankle. He lay upon the hillside in the midst of a drenching rain for thirty-six hours, suffering the utmost agony from: his broken limb, At the end of that time, and becoming desperate at the thought of passing another night under such circumstances, he crawled toa clamp of brush near by and cut wo sticks which he used as and made his way four miles to some uninhabited cabins. He dragged himself into one of them and laid down to die) but was rescued by u chance party of campers who were driven to the. aholtéc of the cabins by a heavy rain storm. He was taken home, and it nursing will restore him — Millennial Star 48:40”