FROZEN TO DEATH.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13340, 31 March 1911, Page 5

FROZEN TO DEATH.

SAD TRAGEDY OF THE ICY NORTH

Press Association,—Telegraph.—Copyright Received March 31, 8.5 a.m. OTTAWA. March 30.

There’is a report from Saskatchewan of a tragedy in the icy northlands. Two trappers with a companion named Cummings wont northward to Dore Lake early in winter fur catching, and built a hut. They found their provisions dwindling, ,and Cummings decided to watch the traps while the others returned south until the spring. Returning a week ago the two found Cummings frozen to death in the hut. A diary related that the provisions having given out Cummings had journeyed with two clogs to a cache, where food was concealed. Returning, his feet became frozen and ho lost the'trail. The dogs guided him home. Cummings was obliged to abandon the food, and faced starvation. He ate the dogs and burned everything in the hut, then died. His last entry in the diary road, “God bless you, boys. Not in pain now; provisions gone; God’s will be done.”