St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-12
A BABE in THE WOODS
The Remarkable Preservation
Of a Baby Boy in st. Cloud
Woods.
Nine Days in the Woods With
Only Berries for SUBJ &
SiStence. Z
A Story That Grows More In
teresting in the Retelling
Of 1t. &
Though but Five Years Old,
the Child Main tanned His i
Life. +

child preservation under fatal exposure
and conditions which the country has
ever heard of probably. is that which
came to very fortunate termination
last Sunday afternoon. About fifteen
days ago. there appeared in these col
umns an account of the loss Of five
year-old child. the son of Helena, Mont,
parents, who were visiting in ST. Cloud.
The story recounted how the parents of
the little fellow came down to st. Cloud
from their home in Helena, accompanied
by their b ably. When they had been
Quartered with relatives in st. Cloud
about a week. the Helena people and
their baby became participants in
picnic which was held in the groves
near Foley, Mimi, station and suburb
distant about twelve miles north of
st. Cloud. During the course of the
days festivities, the little one. mani
Testing desire to sleep, was tucked
away behind shielding oak tree. where
his mother left him to the Sumter
which soon wrapped him in baby
dreams. Confident that baby would be
entirely safe in his coy retreat-which
was not more than 200 feet from the pic
mic party-the fond mother returned to
her friends. After the lapse of half an
hour, search was made for baby under
the great oak tree by which he had been
placed; but no trace of the boy could be
found. The picnickerS were at once
apprlSed of the circumstances, and soon
all hands were beating the bush for
The Missing Child.
A railroad track divided the woods
about hundred yards from where the
child had lain, and serious apprehen-
sion seized the searching party lest the
child had met with an accident on the
rOadbed or treStle bridge which Spanned
swamp near by. The country was
secured for a mile every way from a
common center, but to no avail, and
when night settled upon the scene the
parties came to town empty-handed
bearing the wall of the two frantic par
entS. The groves Immediately about
Foley merge into dense and impenetra-
BILE forests just beyond the small con-
fines of the village, which is nothing
more tnan the necessary habitation
for the employees engaged in the saw
mill of Foley Bros. When the picnick-
ers returned to st. Cloud there was
little hope prevalent that the lost boy
would be ever recovered. The news
| spread about st. Cloud, and on the NOR
row band of men made up searching
| squad and left for the Foley woods
| After spending the entire Monday whip
ping every twig for four miles around
Foley station, the men returned weary
and baffied. On hearing of this failure,
the parents OF the little boy resigned
themselves to the fate they felt certain
had forever disposed of their child.
| Those familiar with the district con-
| cluded that the child had been killed
and eaten by the beasts which more or
less infeSt the forests and tanarack
| swamps. or that he had strayed off into
| the marshes to be engulfed in the quag-
mire. AT any rate. the eutire p0pula-
| ton of st. Cloud gave the child up for
dead and gone Wien Wednesday had
come and gone without recovering the
| lost. Friday the bereaved parents packed
up and left for Helena. The lost boys
mother was III sad state of mind at
| her misfortune, and much fear was en-
| tertained that she would Succumb to the
| ordeal.
On the following Sunday, however,
| Oct. 5, word from Foley was received
| in ST. Cloud that party of lumbermen
| had found the child that morning. The
parents were telegraphed for at Miles
| City while they were yet en- 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
| hySteric, from which she did not re-
cover for some hours. Both parents
found their way back to st. Cloud on
the next train going East. which left
Miles City. When they reached St.Cloud,
their joy was beyond expression and
tears spoke palmer than words of the
happiness which this marvellous restor-
alton of kind, had born in the parental
| heat.
The story of the lumbermen who
found the boy is indeed Interesting.
They stated to GLOBE representa-
| tive who met some of their party
in st. Paul on Thursday. that when
they came upon the boy he was
sitting on log. and crying piteously.
The distance from where the lad was
put to sleep to where be was found is
| five and 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 few of which chung to his
bleeding, lacerated person. His eyes
were contracted and drawn into his
| little head fully an inch, and his jaw
was set almost rlgidly. His legs, from
his feet TO his knees, were warped. and
| resembled rhubarh stems. The color OF
his skin was blue, black and dull red,
and his hair was matted into his bleed
ing and clotted scalp. The men carried
the child into Foley Bros camp and
sent to st. Cloud for doctors. Two
| physicians drove to the scene. and al
once set to work with restOratives. j.
j, Hill was advised of the find, and our
generous magnate provided the citizens
of st. Cloud with special train, which
conveyed thousand curious persons to
the Foley camp, where the child was
being revived. The region marvels al
the affair. The child is doing well, and
! galnging strength each day. and word
has been received that its parents will
resume their journey homeward to-day
bearing in their nursing arms the little
fellsw whose life was despaired of by
everybody. Much gratitude is expressed
to Mr.. Hill for his prompt and generous
hand in providing special train for the
citizens of St Cloud.