DRAMATIC RESCUE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 52, Issue 3750, 1 May 1936, Page 8

DRAMATIC RESCUE

DASH ACROSS FROZEN’ WASTES. After travelling across frozen wastes a woman doctor and an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have arrived ar Edmonton, Alberta. With the black frost fiend stalking them, they brought a party of twelve to safety. The woman doctor was Dr. Margaret Owen, and with the officer she made the journey to Notikein, 400 miles north of Edmonton in comparative comfort. The return journey, however, tried all their resources. While driving their sleigh through, the rough, snow-bound tundra country It broke down and they had to walk seven miles to a cabin, a tramp that took seven hours in the bitter cold. Here the doctor found her patient. The party, however, learned that a 15-year-old boy In the trapper’s family had gone out the day before to look at some traps and had not returned. ■ They started the search and came across the boy’s body lying frozen beside one of his traps. The father’had to accompany the body to civilisation, and that meant he feould not leave his wife and the other children alone in the merciless wild until he returned. The entire family were taken out-. In addition to the dead boy were the officer and a man he had arrested at Keg River, a mail freighter and his party, in ail 12 people to be fed.Fire on Sleigh. Women and children were loaded into a sleigh, on which a tent was pitched, where a stove was kept burning. In this tent the 40-year-old woman physician cooked five meals, a day for the weaker members of the party. The last 40 miles were the hardest for the struggling party. The horses became tired and stiff, and one weakened and had to be shot. It was sure death in the bitter weather to stop. All that night and day they travelled, making the 40 miles in 36 hours.