A TRAGEDY OF THE NORTH.
Ottawa, March 30. A report from Saskatchewan, Canada, tells of a tragedy in the icy Northland. Two trappers, with a companion named Cummings, went northward of Dore Eake early in the winter for the purpose of gathering fur skins. The men built a hut, but found that their provisions were dwindling. Cummings decided to watch the traps whilst the others returned south uutil spring. Returning a week ago, the two men found Cummings frozen to death in the hut. In his diary he related that, after his provisions had given out, he had journeyed with two dogs to the cache where food was concealed. When returning his feet became frozen, and he lost the trail. The dogs guided him home. Cummings was then obliged to abandon the search for food, and was faced with starvation. Later he ate the dogs, and burned everything but the hut. The last entry in his diary reads ; “God bless you boys. I am not iu pain now. Provisions have all gone. God’s will be done.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 974, 1 April 1911, Page 2
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176A TRAGEDY OF THE NORTH. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 974, 1 April 1911, Page 2
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