American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-09-19
Lost for Six Days in the Woods.

GETTING lost in the woods is becoming
a circumstance of such common occur
renee that the mere mentioning OF the
fact in condensed form is all that is
deemed necessary. The incident that we
are about to record, although unattended
by disastrous results, shows the fearful
situation of being lost in the almost i'm
penetrable wilds of our Michigan forests.
We give the story as related to our re-
porter by the two men who were the
actors in what very nearly had proven Il
tragedy.
John Capsul, a man who follows lum-
bering for a living, and George WASH
ington, IA barber tcolored), both of sag
NAV City, started on Tuesday morning,
the 25th ult, from Otsego Lake for the
purpose OF looking at some land situated
about four and half miles from the
lake in Il southeast direction. 1t seems
the colorcd man has a farm in that part
of the country on which he has made
some improvements, and from his repre-
sensations the man Capsul was induced
to accompany him with the purpose of
also locating homestead in the same
neighborhood. They started, expecting
to be absent only the one day and were
to return the same night, and both being
good woodsmen they took nothing with
them in the way of provisions save four
w
sausages After travelling over what
they considered was sufficient territory
to bring them to their destination they
saw from the strange features OF the
woods that they were a little astray.
Laughing at the idea of being lost in
the woods to which they were both
accustomed, they made preparations to
pass the night in the woods, and having
an AK with which to build Il booth and
l,,tt, oil he hal n
ers and sausagcs they went to sleep. In
the morning they again started and trav-
elcd till noon, when they began to realize
that they were actually lost, and not hav-
ing a compass with them they had no
idea where they were, save from the nat
ural indications with which all woods
men are acquainted. They Travelled all
that day, Wednesday and Thursday,
without being at all aware where they
were, and still heading in what they sup
posed to be the right direction.
By Thursday night they found they
were becoming exhausted for want of
food, having had nothing to eat save the
roots and twigs which they found. The
ground Travelled over was one dense Will
derness and totally devoid of all matter
fit for human sustenance, though with an
abundance of water.
Friday and Saturday were passed by
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of release from the labyrinth in which
they were entangled. AT last, late on
Saturday night, they came upon lone
clearing in the woods, and were just able
to crawl inside the door of the log cabin
when, utterly exhausted, Capsul fell
senseless upon the floor. They were
kindly cared for by the inmates, and
found they were thirty-three miles north
of Alpcna. After rest of three days
they took the boat for Saginaw. The men
looked much cmaciatcd and the feet OF
the colorcd man were very badly swollen.
They describe their suffering from hunger
rs not being SO severe, and only an in
crcasing weakness felt. They could not
have stood it much longer, and are salts
fed with seeing considerable land in the
course of the walk they had of nearly
one hundred miles.-East Saginato (Ktch.)
Courier.
A novel lawsuit is pending in kcr
houkSon n " before Justice Stevens.