Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-01-04
Fearful Fate of Two Men in the Wis
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STEVENS POINT, Wis, Dec. 18.-One,
year ago they left their native land be-
Yond the sea to seek a home in the new
world. About a fortnight ago they
left this city to locate that l~ong-looked-
for home somewhere in the vast wilder
ness to the north OF us, and in the.
springtime they were to take their
families and settle down to spend the
balance of their days. But, alasi hui
man calculations are full of errors.
Al. that is left of X. Kakoli, aged 40.
and S. Boercke, aged 35, is lying to-
day beneath the, sod. ~. -
From the best information l can
gather, it seems that the two men, after
going about sixty miles up the Central
r. R., left the track early in the morn
ing with the intention of looking
Paround through the day and returning
to Medfords or some other station before
night. But, instead, they got lost, and
about a week after this occurrence two
land hunters named respectively John
Gross and Nicholas Gravity being out
on a hunt, came to a spot where some
zone had stayed over night some
time before. A fire had been built, and
some pine branches had been laid down
for a bed, and some placed against a
half-fallen tree to make q shelter from
the wind. What attracted The atten-
ton of the hunters was the absence of
any marks of an axe. Every thing had
the appearance of being broken OF, u
with a small knife. They stopped a
few moments to make a closer inspec-
ton Of the place with the intention of
finding out, if possible, who had been
there. They were about to go away,
when Gross picked up a large tin to-
~bacco-box, which, on opening, they
found contained a leaf torn out of a
memorandum-book, with the following,
with pencil, written upon it in the Pol
ish language:
DEC. J, 1876.
My God, we are lost and almost frozen to
death, with nothingto eat. Try and save
us. IL. hAkOLI,
S. BOERCKE.
1t is evident that they LETT this with
the hope that some one would pick it
up. In case this would not be found
they had pinned a paper to a tree near
by with the same as the above written
upon it, which Gross and Gravity dis
covered before they left the spot. So
many days had elapsed since the two
unfortunate men had stayed there that
the two hunters had but little hopes of
finding them alive, if at all, for the note
was written just the day before the
Observation-Disclosures cold Friday of
the Sth instant. They started imme-
diately upon the trail, but did not get
far before night set in. Early the next
morning they started out again, and
before noon, from the marks in the snow.
they came to the conclusion that they
would soon find out the tate OF the two
men. Now they would find where they
had fallen, and staggered and stumbled
along, q short distance, and then, as
if they had gathered new strength,
wandered along in q half-unconscious
state, with no knowledge of the direc-
ton they were taking or Of the wretch
ed state they were in, through brush
and against trees, until finally they
came to a large fallen tree, over which,
it seems, they had strength enough to
get. But just on the other side the
body of Kakoli was found, lying fiat on
his face, and, about eight rods
further on, that of BOercke
was found lying on his side. The two
hunters tied some poles together, fast
ened the bodies upon them, and started
for the track, dragging the heavy loads.
after them. They were obliged, how
ever, to leave them after the first day..
and go and get help to bring them out.
This should be another lesson to those
who do not understand the woods to
keep out of them; for who can ever
imagine, much less know, the terrible
suffering Of those two men as they wan
dered Through that wilderness to a sure
and terrible death.-OshkOSh N0rthWeSt-
eT,s