A TRAGIC STORY
• FROM NORTHERN CANADA. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. ■";, r( Ottiiwa, March 30. Reports from Saskatchewan give an account of a tragedy .-in, the icy northland. Two trappers, with a companion named Cummings, wont Hbrthward to Dorc Lake early in the winter, furcatching. They built a hut, but found provisions dwindling. Cummings decided to watcii the traps, and the others; returned south until the spring. Returning a week ago, the two found Cummings frozen to death in the hut. His diary related that provisions had given out and that he had journeyed with two dogs to the cache where food was concealed. In returning, his feet got frozen, and he lost the trail, but the dogs guided him home. Cummings was obliged to abandon the food, and, faced with starvation, ate the dogs. Hp burned everything in the hut for firing, and then died. The last entry in his diary read: "God bless you, boys. I am not in pain now. The provisions are gone. God's will be done."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 1 April 1911, Page 5
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169A TRAGIC STORY Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 267, 1 April 1911, Page 5
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