VESSEL BLOWN UP
CASTAWAYS’ HARDSHIPS MASTER’S PLUCKY STRUGGLE LONDON, Nov. 14. A thrilling tale of adventure and hardship, with still a chapter to come, is told by wireless from the snow-clad and ice-bound wastes of North-Western Canada. With snow and furious gules, winter made* an early spread over Western Canada. Captain Victor Ingraham, the intrepid master of a motor-ship carrying mining machinery on 'Great Bear Lake, found himself, last-, weekend,'caught in a terrific north-easter which cut his vessel adrift. While they were trying to get the engines Avorking an explosion occurred and two of the crew were killed. The vessel blew up. Ingraham led his six passengers over the ice and through snowdrifts to safety, but ho was suffering from burns and severe frostbite. No doctor being available, he tried to diagnose his own case and described his condition over the radio to a surgeon stationed at Aklavik, a famous Mounted Police station close to the month of the Mackenzie River.
“Get on bottrd an aeroplane and come here quickly. We will amputate your leg and save your life," replied Dr. Urquhart.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18255, 25 November 1933, Page 8
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