ORDEAL IN OPEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22449, 19 June 1936, Page 6

ORDEAL IN OPEN

THROWN FROM HORSE HELPLESS FOR 22 HOURS DOGS KEEP OFF DINGOES [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, June 13 While dingoes howled all round, and his horse and dogs stood by, refusing to leave him, P. L. Comiskey, a stockman 011 a Queensland station, lay help, less with a broken hip for 22 hourg before he was found. Coiniskey wag thrown from his horse while mustering cattle and was found by B. Vickers, another stockman, who had been searching for him. Comiskey said that after being thrown from his horse he tried to lj 6 down, but owing to the broken leg was unable to do so. Ho managed to sit upright and started to coo-ee for help. When it got dark he got hold of a long stick and, raking in pieces of wood, lit a fire. He was without food and water, but his horse (lid not leave him. Dingoes howled in the vicinity in the night, but they did not come near. His kelpie dogs kept them away. They also snuggled in on both sides of him, and the warmth of their bodies did a lot to keep his courage up. He had burned almost ail of the wood and was hoarse from calling out when he heard a horse cantering. Ho called out again and attracted the attention of Yickers. A stretcher was made with bags and saplings, and he was carried for a mila over a rough gorge to a car.

"Always be kind to dogs and they repay you," ho said later.