Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-24
BABE In THE WOODS.
IT WAS LOST NINE DAYS AND WAS
GIVEN UP FOR DEAD
Restored to Its Parents. 1t is Expected 70
Live--A Remarkable story i'o"
a Minnesota Camp.
tst paul GloSe.1

and conditions which inc cVuHAJ
ever heard OF probably is that when came
to very fortunate termination last sun
day afternoon. About fifteen days ago
there appeared in these columns an &C
count OF the loss OF fve-year-oid cniio'
the son OF Helena Mont parents VINO
we're visiting Sin st. Cloud. The story
recounted how the parents OF the mite
fellow came down to 81 Clouu
from their home in Helena, &C
companied by their baby. When they
had been CHARTERED with relatives III Of
Cloud about week the Helena people
and their baby became participants ID d
picnic which was held in the groves near
Foley, Mimi. station and snouro dis-
tsnt about twelve miles north OF OF.
Cloud. During the course OF the
davis festivities tho little one, mani
Testing desire TO sleep, was tucked
away behind n shielding oak tree
where his mother left him TO the
slumber which soon wrapped HIM IN
baby dreams. Confident that DaDy
would be entirely safe in his cosy re-
treat-which was not more than 2OO ieet
from the picnic party-the fond mother
returned to her friends. After the lapse
OF half an hour, search was made ior
| baby under the great oak tree by winch
he had been placed but no trace OF the
boy could be found. The pic-nickers
were at once apprised Of the circum-
stances and soon all hands we're beating
the bush for the missing child.
SERIOUS hPPBEHESsIoNs.
A railroad track divided the woods
about a hundred wards from where the
child had lain, and serious apprehension
seized the searching party lest the child
had met with an accident on the road
bed or trestle-bridge which spanned n
swamp nearby. The country was secured
for mile every way from a common
centre, but TO no avail, and when night
settled upon the scene the parties came
to town empty-handed, bearing the wal
of the two frantic parents.
The groves Immediately about Foley
merge into dense and impenetrable for
ests Just beyond the small confines OF
tho village, which is nothing more than
the necessary habitation for the en-
ployees engaged in the saw-mill of Foley
Brothers. When the pic-nickers returned
to st. Cloud there was little hope preva-
lent that the lost boy would be ever
recovered. The news spread about St
| Cloud, and On the morrow band OK
men made up searching squad and left
for the Foley woods. After spending
the entire Monday whipping every twig
for four miles around Foley station the
men returned weary and baiiled. On
hearing Of this failure the parents of the
little boy resigned themselves TO tho
fate they felt certain had forever dis
posed OF their child. Those familiar
with the district concluded that the child
had been killed and eaten by the beasts
which more or less infest the forests and
| tamarack swsmps, or that he had strayed
off into the marshes to he enguifed in
the Quagmire. At any rate, the entire
population of st. Cloud gave the child
up for dead and gone when Wednesday
had come and gone without recovering
! the lost.
THEY PACKED UP AND LEFT.
Friday the bereaved parents packed
ND and left for Helena. The lost boys
mother was in sad state of mind at
! her misfortune, and much fear was en-
tertained that she would succumb to the
ordeal. On the following Sunday, how
ever. October 9Th, word from Foley was
received III ST Cloud that a party of
lumbermen had found the child that
morning. The parents were telegraphed
for at Miles City while they were yet
on route TO their home in Helena.
The sudden news that her boy had
been found alive after an exposure IN
the woods of nine days threw the mother
of the lost boy into Mysteries, from
which she did not recover for some
hours. Both parents found their way
back to st. Cloud on the next train 60
ing east which left Miles City. When
they reached st. Cloud their Joy was be-
yond expression and tears spoke palmer
than words of the happiness which this
marvellous restoration had brought to
the parental heart.
| SITTING on Loo CRYING.
The story Of the lumbermen who
found the boy is indeed interesting.
They stated TO a Glo6e representative
who met some of their party in st. Paul
on Thursday that when they came upon
the boy he was sitting on a log and cry
ing piteously.
The distance from where the lad was
put to sleep to where he was found il
five and a half miles. When approached
by the men he tried to raise himself
from the log, only TO fall to the ground a
weak, helpless bundle of baby-bones and
skin. He was emaciated from head to
foot, and his clothes were torn to shreds,
only a few OF which chung to his bleed
ing, lacerated person. His eyes were
contracted and drawn into his little head
and his Jaw was set almost rigidly. His
legs from his feet TO his knees were
warped and resembled rhubarb stems
The color of his skin was blue, black
and dull red, and his hair was matted
INTO his bleeding and clotted scalp
The men carried the child into
Foloy Brothers camp and sem
to st. Cloud for doctors. Two
physicians drove to the scene, and q
once set to work with restoratiyes j.
j. Hill was advised Of the find, and oul
generous magnate provided the citizens
of st. Cloud with a special train, whicf
conveyed thousand curious persons ''
the Foley camp, where the child wa
being revived. The region marvels q
the affair. The Child is doing we'll anC
gaining strength each day, and word ha
been received that its parents will lesum'
their tourney home ward to-day. bearln,
in their nursing arms the little ielio'
whose life was despaired of by every
body. Much gratitude is expressed u
Mr.. Hill for his prompt and genero,u
act in providing a special train for tn
citizens OF St. Cloud.