The Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn. Territory) 1849-1855, 1851-05-08

A REMARKABLE SroRY.-The Presbyte-
rian, religious paper, published in Phia-
delphia, tells the following extraordinary
story :
young man IN the township Of War
saw, Genesee county, y. Y, was engaged
in cutting wood; and 10 telling a tree it be-
came entang!ed in the branches of other
trees. While andeavoring TO disentangle
the tree and brig it 10 The ground, il sud-
denly fell and splitting at the butt he was
caught lay the iunr, and thus suspended with
his head downward. liz this condition he
cried for help, until his voice was gone and
his strength well nigh exhausted. His axe
had fallen, and he could scarcely touch The
end OF the helve with his finger He labor
Ell TO reach il, but it was all in vain. Could
he but get that, he could extricate himself.
But, alas it was beyond his relch. What
was he to do? He had cried for help until
he could no longer speak. He was in the
woods, three quarters of mile from any
human being. The weather was extremely
cold and he was hanging with his head
downward, suffering extreme PAIN, not only
III the foot which was caught ~ the cleft of
the tree, but also in the head, caused nv his
unnatural position and the grca, exertion he
had put Forth 10 he heard. Dea!h pow
seemed inevitable, unless he could be hume
.iate;y ex,ricatc,l. There was no alterna-
tive. SuinmonIng all his courage, there
fore, he came ~ the determination to make
the attempt TO cut off his leg; and should he
succeed IN doing this, there was bat a faint
hope that he would thereby save his life,
for there was no surgeon at hand to take up
the arrerics-no kind friend near TO bind up
the rnange! limb. 1t seemed more than
probable, therefore, that he would bleed to
death. But what will a man not do to save
his life: He had in his pocked an old dull
knife. With this he cut off the legs of his
beet AMI stocking, aud then unjo:ated his
own ankle.
This being done, he crawled to his dinner
basket, and binding up the stump with u
napkin which had covered his dinner, he
started upon hands and knees through the
snow for home. When he arrived within
few rods CT his house he was Il scovered
by some friends, who fastened to his relief.
His strength was now exhausted. Help
has come aud he tainted. He was borne to
the house and resuscted. Noe came the
curious facts; and will here say that the
gentleman who related the facts TO me was
present and Went to the surgeon. Co."
said the wounded man, ego Immediately TO
the woods and cut out my foot, for i, is suf-
fering most excruciatiug pain" They did
SO, AMI brought the foot to the house. He
then said it was cold, and wished it put in
to warm water. This request was also
granted. Ii was not i'm the room in which
the unfortunate man lay, yet as soon as the
foot touched the water he cried out, saying:
alt burns me; the water is too hot" Up
Oh putting the hand into the water il was
found even SO. The water was then made
cooler, and he was satisfied. | will also
add that surgeon was obtained from Bata-
via, distance Of fifteen or eighteen miles,
the limb again amputated; the man recov-
cred an! became q preacher Of the gospel
In Tho Baptist Church