The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1884-01-25

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permitted your cerfEst Isfehtt u inlpoct
IL. The entries for January tS7y.
showed that heavy snow and intanac
cold was experienced. Both Brown and
the Chinaman got much better until the
latter part of the month, when Browne
leg began to swell badly and i,e was con.
fined TO his bed. In February there
were very heavy falls Of snow.
On March 0Captain Thompson's entry
slyst "rhis month brings sickness and
misery into this honse.
march ST was compel ed to lie
down, with my legs swollen and turn.
ing black which pnt down to scurvy.
March 2O-One o, the Chi ,amen on
his back with the same disease. Brown
still getting worse and complaining that
NC cannot live.
March 30-This month ends with
the sickness Of our other Chinaman,
who is Just able TO walk. My God. when
will this end?
April 5-This month brings the great.
est misery 1 have ever experienced.
Brown is nat able to turn on his blanket
AID mono Of us are abe to give him a
helping hand. The poor Chinaman is
only able to give hih, cup of tea once
in Il while.
"April S-poor old Brown died .antl
not one Of us able to close his eyes.
april l0-One ofthe Cinnamon gone.
We had an awful time getting the body
into the snow.
April i2-This night feel more like q
dying man than ever
April l6-ihele is absolute misery in
the ranch, Ono Chinaman died during
the night. THIS morning tried to get
up, but tainted. We tri d TO get the dead
Chinaman outside, but all Efforts failed.
l feel that We are all doomed"
The next and last entry has no date
md 10 written in u very feeble, shaky
hand. 1t reads:
"How long have laid here don't
know. All is blank am alone. I'm.
Oh, what agony "a am in: feel eel il .e cat:
ing at my vitais. This must be death y
Here the logabrubtly ended. A grave
was dug by the party and the remains
were laid In as best they could be. Tho
door of the cabin was strongly fastened
to keep out the bears. Two years after
Basco,n visited the same spot. He says:
The cabin still stood above tue com.
mon grave and could not look upon il
| without a shudder passing over me to
think of the terrible tragic months
these men had passed, dying one by
one of that slow, certain dis.
case, fur from home, he. n
and civilization. The shores of this
wild, desolate country are the silent
castodiaus Of many tragedy. The
counterpart of this and lonely graves
and CHASTITY skeletons give evidence
to the hundreds who have lost their
lives in search cfgain or adventure in
this frozen land of the north. No clue
to the friends of my comrades were
found. 80 far as know, and they had
unfortunately left nothing OF their his
tory. They were men without ex
perience in cold latitudes, for they
had made none Of the ordinary precau
tons to ward off sickness"
Rascom has been cruising around The
unciyiliz"d parts Of the world eve
since these thrilling experiences unit
last Saturday, when he arrived in New
York and Immediately started for hi
home here. He wants no more Of ad
venture and, being man of good ed
ucation and much experience, will prob
ably settle down to the hum.lrum life o
Waterbury tradesman.