Out of desperation, some of the pioneers at Truckee Lake attempted to escape, which led to the first natural deaths. Antonio, the animal handler, was the first to die, with Franklin Graves being the next casualty. And as the blizzard progressed, one of the pioneers, Patrick Dolan, went cuckoo, insane, took off all his clothes, ran naked in the woods, and died a few hours later. Not long after that, some of the group began to eat the flesh from Dolan's body. And early the next morning, for breakfast, the group stripped the muscles and organs from the bodies of Antonio, Dolan, and Graves. Of the 87 people of the Donner-Reed party who gambled on the shortcut, like I mentioned, 48 survived. The truth is nobody knows the truth of what happened during those four months of horror, nor the accurate numbers of the people that were eaten.