DOG’S VAIN SACRIFICE

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2072, 6 May 1907, Page 4

DOG’S VAIN SACRIFICE

Tragic details have just reached Ottawa of the death in a great snowstorm of Surgeon Flood, of tho NorthWest Mounted Police, near Fort Churchill, and of a dog’s pathetic, but vain sacrifice of it's life in an attempt to save its master’s. .Dr. Flood, Major Moodie, and an engineer named Thibadeau, who had been on a surveying expedition for the Federal Government of Fort Churchill, left for the purpose of exploring for timber. They had prepared a camp up country, and when they set out for it the weather looked favorable. When they arrived they found that they had dropped their provision box on the way, anil were without food. Dr. Flood, laughingly refusing assistance, set out with the dog train to recover it. Ho disappeared over tho snow, and that was the last that was seen of him until his body was found by a search party three days later. A great snowstorm came on, and he lost the trail. Miles away from any

i olianco of succour,ho wandered in tho ! bleak, snow-covered wilderness until ! ho must have dropped from exhaustion.

Dr. Flood lay in tho snow, with the faithful loader of the dog train frozen stiff over him. The animal had made a vain endeavor to save Dr. Flood’s life by keeping his body

warm. When Dr. Flood dropped in his tracks the other dogs bit thoinsolves fleo of the harness and each other, and sought safety. They reached Fort Churchill seven days after they loft camp.