DOG'S VAIN SACRIFICE

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 105, 7 May 1907, Page 3

DOG'S VAIN SACRIFICE

Tragic details have just reached Ottawa of the death in a great snowstorm of Surgeon Flood, of the Northwest Mounted Police near Fort Churchill, and of a dog's pathetic, Tout vain sacrifice of its life in an attempt to save its master's. Dr. Flood, Major Moodie and an engineer yarned Thibadeau, who had been on a surveying expedition for the Federal Government at Fort Churchill, left for the purpose of exploring for timber. They had prepared a camp up country, and when they set out for it the weather looked favourable. "When they arrived they found that they had dropped their provision box on the way, and were without food. Dr. Flood, laughingly refusing assistance, set out with the dog train to recover it. He disappeared over the snow, and that was the last that was seeu of him until his body was found by a search party three days later. , A great snowstorm came on, and lie lost the trail. Miles away from any chance of succour, he wandered in the bleak, snow-covered wilderness until he must have dropped from exhaustion. Dr. Flood lay in the snow with the faithful leader of the dog train frozen stiff over him. The animal had made a vain endeavour to save Dr. Flood's life by keeping his body warm. . . When Dr. Flood dropped m his tracks the other dogs bit themselves free of the harness and each other, and sought safety. They reached Fort Churchill seven days after they left camp.