TERRIFIC BLIZZARD

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 155, 29 December 1938, Page 10

TERRIFIC BLIZZARD

ARCTIC WASTES

BRITISH EXPLORER

DROWNED

(Received December 29, 2 p.ih.)

OTTAWA, December 28. 1 Out of the Arctic wastes a Government radio station reported a terrific blizzard, as a result of which Mr. R. J. Bray, a British explorer and ornithologist) was drowned when a boat was crushed by ice- in the Fox- Channel. Mr. Patrick Baird, his companion on a British Museum expedition, was rescued by an Eskimo.

Mr. Bray had already achieved fame through his collection "in London of rare Arctic birds.

Ben Matthews, a trader, and four Indians^ including two women.. r«n short of food after they left Weensusk for a Hudson Bay post 75 miles distant, and v^ere trapped by a blizzard. Matthews''went-- ahead, secured supplies, and returned. He foundvthe four others frozen to death almost within sight of the post. D. Turner, a trapper, formerly -a member of the Canadian North-West * Mounted Police, slipped on the ice and , stunned himself. When he had, recovered, his mitts had. blown away and his hands were frozen. . Half delirious with pain, he dug himself into a snowdrift and remained- buried for three days. The sjorrri subsided and he grimly battled for 18 miles to his companions' cabin. He was taken' to hospital. He will lose both his • hands and perhaps. both feet.