AN ICE TRAGEDY.
TRAPPER’S LONELY DEATH.
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(Received 31, 8.5 a.m.) Ottawa, Mar. 30.
A report comes from Saskatchewan of a tragedy in the icy northland. Two trappers, with a companion named Cummings, went northward to Dore Lake for the early winter fur-catching. They built a hut< and finding provisions were dwindling, Cummings decided to watch the traps while the others returned south until spring. Returning a week ago the two trappers found Cummings frozen to death in the hut.
j His diary related that provisions j had given out, and that he (Cum- ! mings) had journeyed with two ■ dogs to a cache where food was’conI cealed. Whilst returning his feet got frozen, and he lost the trail. He was obliged to abandon the search for food and face starvation. He ate the dogs and burned everyI thing available in the hut, but at ■ length he died. The last entry in the diary read I 'as follows:—“ God bless you, boys; lam not in pain now. The proviI sions are gone. God’s will be done.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 92, 31 March 1911, Page 1
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