HEROIC PRIEST
115-MILE TRIP IN SNOW-
DRAGGING INDIAN ON SLEIGH.
DOGS COULD NOT GET THROUGH.
(United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 1.30 p.m.) TORONTO, January 24.
The newspapers relate the epic of a Catholic priest’s 115-mile trip, dragging a sleigh with a critically ill Indian from the Arctic.
A fortnight before an Indian staggered into Albany Mission, where he announced that George Mechat had severed his foot with an axe and was lying 115 miles away in the direction of the Arctic. Father Lavoie and three Indians started with dog sleds, but the snow was too soft, and Father Lavoie went alone on snowshoes. In places he sank four feet. After eight days he reached the wigwam, and found Mechat comatose and that gangrene had set in. For 14 days liis only food had been flour and rabbit.
Father Lavoie fought his way back over the trails, dragging Mechat on a sleigh. On arrival at the mission Meehat’s leg was amputated by Sister Marie, “The White Angel of the North.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 89, 25 January 1938, Page 5
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