TRAPPER’S ORDEAL.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 234, 26 April 1928, Page 4

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 Kennecott Hospital, and has a chance to live (wrote the Montreal correspondent of the London Daily Mail recently). When operating a trap line 150 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 uneonsci-

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 15 miles by dog sled to the railway, where he was placed aboard a train and taken to Kennecott Hospital.