TRAPPER'S ORDEAL

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2145, 17 April 1928, Page 8

TRAPPER'S ORDEAL

After lying alone for more" than a month in his cabin, in the wilds of Alaska with one leg burned off nearly to the knee and the other foot badly injured, Nick Raworth, a Canadian war veteran, was taken to Kennecptt Hospital, and. has a chance to live (wrote the Montreal correspondent of the London Daily Mail recently). 'When operating a trap,line "330 miles north of Cordova, on the Culkana River, he was attacked by a bear. The trapper's dog fought nobly to save its master's life, but lost its own in the battle. The bear then turned on Raworth, knocking him unconscious.

Raworth said that he could remember nothing from that moment until he regained consciousness, to find one leg nearly burned off and the foot of the other leg badly burned. Evidently he had previously regained consciousness and built a fire, but passed into a coma again from shock and loss of blood. Suffering agony from his burns, Raworth crawled more than 15 miles to his cabin, where he lay for weeks scarcely able to secure food and water. • He was found by an Indian trapper, and travelled lfcmiles. by dog sled to the railway, where he was placed aboard a train and taken to Kennecott Hospital.