LONELY TRAPPER'S ORDEAL

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 124, 28 May 1928, Page 11

LONELY TRAPPER'S ORDEAL

After lying alone for more than a month in his cabiu in the wilds of ; Alaska with one leg burned off nearly to the knee arid the other.foot badly injured, Nick Baworth, a Canadian war veteran, was taken., to Kennecott Hospital, and has a chaneo to live (wrote the Montrpal correspondent of tho "Daily Mail" recently). When operating a trap line 150 miles north of Cordovo'r, on the Culkana River, ho was attaclced by a bear. The trapper's dog fought nobly to save his master's life, but lost his own in tho battle. The bear them turned on Raworth, knocking him- unconscious,. . Raworth said- he could remember nothing from that moment until ho regained consciousness, to find one leg nearly burned off and tho foot of the other leg badly .burned. Evidently ho had previously regained consciousness and built a. fire, but passed into a coma again from shock and' loss of blood. Suffering agony from his burned limbs, Raworth crawled more than 15 miles.to his cabin, whero ho lay for wcoks scarcely able to secure food and water. Ho was found by an Indian: trapper and "travelled 15 miles by dog sled to the railway, where ho was placed aboard a train and taken to Kennecott Hospi- ■ tal.