The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-09-10
E.G8'T IN THE WOODS.
"A Lost Child Hives sevesatF-sTx Hours
in the Woods Without NonrEsfa enf.
from the Louisville courier-JournaI1

TFrou the Louisville Courier-JournaIi
For the last two mornings oar Jeffer-
sonyiIle reporter has furnished US in his
report an account of a child being lost in
! the woods, and last night he sent US the
following particulars Of the strange and
interesting story:
The little son Of Mr. VIM Prigley. who
was lost In the woods near Crethersvile
was found last Tuesday afternoon. The
| circumstances attending this case are
| most remark able
On last Saturday morning. Mrs. Prig-
leg started for corn-feld near her house,
leaviog her itele son, child but three
years Of age, at the house, telling him 80
| re main in the yard and play until she re-
turned. She had been gone but few
| minutes before the appearance Of a storm
coming up caused her to return. What
was her surprise and alarm when she ar
rived at home, TO ind that her child was
now here to be seen.
She searched the entire premises. but
could not find a single trace OF the bo5
Becoming by this time seriously alarmed,
she few over to a neighboring house and
gave the alarm
LII 1858 LildU oil Dbui- btS StltiiC
borhood, headed by the frantic father.
was out searching for the missing boy.
Il thorough search was made all that day
and late in the night, but il proved
fruitless. At early dawn the next day
the search was resumed, and night found
the boy still missing. The parents by
this time were frantic with grief, and
| THE MOTHER ATTEMPTED TO DROWN HER
SELF In the river known as the Muscat
satack, at Bakers Mills, but the attempt
was frustrated, and the grief-stricke2
woman carried to.her home.
The third day the search was still con-
tinued. By this time over two hundred
people had gathered and Joined in the
search.
The excitement In and around the en-
tire locality was intense men coming for
fifty miles on their horses to assist in
searching for the lost child. At about
4 clock Tuesday afternoon. lad nam
ed Isac Warner, while hauling stave
blocks through a lonely part Of the dense
woods, and at point four miles distant
and across the river from Mr.. Priglcy'
house, beard a peculiar moaning sound
Fl stopped his team and listened. The
moaning was reapetea. He got of
his wagon and commenced searching
around He had been searching but a few
moments when he
DISCOVERED A CHILD LYING PROS
TRATE upon its back. It's face was turn
ed UP and presented pale and CHASTITY
Appearance Warner went up to the
poor little thing and took it IN his arms
1t moanad piteously, and was nearly dead
from fatigue, hunger, and exposure. The
child proved to be the lost one, little Ed
die Pligiey, and had been wandering
avornd in the woods for seventy six hours
and had eaten nothing in all that time.
It vas dressed only In th calico frock,
and as the nights have been cold OF late
his sufferiugs must have been intense.
The child was Immediately taken nome
and restoredto it overioyed parents, Med
ical attention was called, and everything
has been done to save the life of the lit
tie wanGerer.
HOW THE CHILD CROSSED THE RIVER
is explained. On Saturday the Muscat- |
tatack River was very low, and Mr. Prlg- !
ley, owning a field across the steam. had |
8 log raft constructed for passing to and |
from his field The child bad frequent
ly crossed this log bridge, and must have |
done SO that day. Saturday night the |
river raised four feet, completely cover
ing the bridge, and after the little fellow
got over he was unable to find his way |
back. The rain also covered the bottoms |
ard lowlands lying along the river, max
ing it impossible for child of that age
to find its way out Itappears, also that
the search for the child was made on the
side of the river On which Mr. Prigley's
house is located, no one dreaming that
the boy had crossedover in the bottom on
the other side of the river. The timely
finding of the boy under the accidental
circumstance seems truly provideutlal,
and its escape from death was miraculous,