A TRAGIC STORY
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"GOD'S WILL BE DONE!"
ALONE IN THE ICY NORTH-LAND
(Received March 31, 8.5 a.m.)
OTTAWA, March 30.
A report from Saskatchewan ,in North-west Canada, gives details of a tragedy that tin*, occurred in the icy north-land.
' Two trappers, with a companion named Cuinmings, went Northward of Dore Lake early in the winter on a fur-catching expedition. They built a hut, and found that .their provisions were dwindling down, rmil Curnmuis decided to watch'the traps/while, the others returned south until spring." A week ago the two trappers returned to the lonely hut, only to find Cummings frozen to death. A diary left !y Cinoniiogs reload, the fact that tho provisions had given out, and he had journeyed, with two dogs, to a cache where food had been' concealed, and that,"returning, his feet became frozen and) lie lost the t, ail. Tb>; ,iog- : ''guided him h iiiio «in the way he was obliged to abandon the food taken from the cache, and now was face to face with starvation.
He ate the dogs, burned everything in the hut, and then died. The last entry in the diary read: — "God bless you, boys. I am not in pain now. The orbvisions are gone. Cod's will be done!"
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 5
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216A TRAGIC STORY Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10202, 1 April 1911, Page 5
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