WOMAN'S FIGHT WITH WOLVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13811, 26 January 1907, Page 3

WOMAN'S FIGHT WITH WOLVES

LONELY DEATH IN THE WILDERNESS. From Vancouver comes news of a daring woniiin explorer's adventures and death in tlio land of ice ajid gold in t-li« grim North-west. Professor Hewitt, of Wisconsin University, after three years' devoted search in the frozen waste ot tho Yukon, lias readied Dn-wcoii City witli a handful of bones tuul bits of clothing—

few. but sufficient to establish the fate of his sister, the once celebrated lady doctor, lira Emily Chambers. Five years ago, wearying of the practice of her profession in a humdrum provincial city, Sirs Chambers, who, besides being a brilliant scientist and writer, wims :ui athlete and a sportswoman, went on an adventurous trip in the Yukon region, much as a British professional lady might go on a climbing expedition in the Alps. She had made previous trips over difficult' and hazardous trails, enduring great hardships, but always being successful. This time, however, she resolved to explore au untrodden route tlu'ousfh a. wild section of the country, which from time to time male explorers had failed to penetrate. Her friends vainly endeavoured to dissuade her, but in July, 1901, she set out. and she was never seen again. Some articles belonging to her were found by the mounted police in the snow of the trackless hills two years after, and they pave a chlC which her brother has devotedly followed since. What he found at (he end of his long search is only too sure proof of his sister's terrible fate. She had been torn to pieces by wolves, and that she had made u, hard fight for life the remains of _ skeletons of dead wolves lyiiig in flio neighbourhood proved. She- was a. good shot, and had kept oft' (he prowling brutes rs long J-β her strength lasted, but it is , supposed that she was finally overcome by sleep, and the ravenous pack swept, down upon her and tore her limb from limb.