DOG'S VAIN SACRIFICE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8804, 4 May 1907, Page 4

DOG'S VAIN SACRIFICE.

™ Tragic details Jiavo just reached Ottawa of the death iu a great snowstorm of Surgeon Flood, of the Northwest Mounted Police near Port Churchill, and of a dog's pathetic, but vain sacrifice of its life in an attempt to sivo its master's. Dr. Mood, Major Moodio and an engineer named Thibadeau, who had boen on a surveying expedition for the Federal Government at Fort Churchill, loft for the purpose of ex* ploriug for timber. They had prepared a camp up country, and when they sot out for it the weather looked favourable. When they arrived they found that they had dropped their provision box on the way, and were without food. Dr. Flood, laughingly refusing assistance, set out with the dog train to recover it. He disappeared i over the 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 lie lost the trail. Miles away from any chance of succour, he wandered in the bleak, snow-covered wilderness until lie must have dropped from exhaustion.

Dr. Flood lay in the snow with the faithful leader of the dog train frozen stiff over him. The animal had made a vain endeavour to save Dr. Flood's life by keeping his body •wann.

jji When Dr. Flood dropped in his tracks the other dogs bit themselves free of the harness and each other, and sought safety. They reached Fort Churchill seven days after they left camp.