Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1898-02-11
SUFFERED 50 HOURS.
Herman Lund Lies by the Roadside
Three Nights and Two Days
Crippled and Helpless.
Falls Beneath a Heavily Loaded
Freight Wagon and Suffers a
Broken Leg.
Unable to Help Himself He Endures
Sixty Hours of Awful Suffering
and Exposure.
A Distressing Accident.

oCAuotA 10 eUcIc encountered u more
distressing account of accident, expos
ure and suffering than is reported in the
case of Herman Lund, a young Norwe-
gian, who was brought to the hospital
late yesterday afternoon with a broken
leg, a MANNED hand n both hands and
feet frozen, he having lain out from
Saturday night until Tuesday morn.
ing, unable to help himself, and too
badly injured to reach a shelter. In a
helpless condition and suffering acute
~ from a broken leg and other injuries,
he lay out in the road, the intense cold
adding to his other sutferings, for three
nights and two days before he was
found.
Lnnd lives on a ranch twenty miles
northeast of Coal Harbor, with two
brothers, and had been frelghting be-
tween Velva, the nearest railroad point
and Coal Harbor. He was returning
home Saturday night with a heavy load,
there being 5000 pounds of freight on
the wagon. At about 8 o'clock, when
he was still about three miles from
home, he got off the wagon and started
to walk alongside and drive the team,
being somewhat chilled. When passing
a little hollow in the road, the horses
lunged a little, and the consequent pull
on the reins caused him to slip and fall
on the frozen ground, sliding under the
wheels of the wagon. The heavily loaded
vehicle passed over his leg, breaking it
above the knee and crushing his hand.
The horses walked on a few feet and
stopped, and Lund lay there unable to
help himself. All through three long
nights and two days he lay there, suf-
fering and no n passed along the road.
His sutferings during that period must
have been intense and he says that he
was conscious the entire time, never
once sleeping or relapsing into uncon-
seriousness, and praying that SOM one
would come to succor him or that death
might come to relieve his su%tferings.
The team remained in the road and had
they walked on a few feet further they
would have reached an elevation from
which they could have been seen from
the ranch. But he was not found until
lOo'clock Tuesday morning, when his
brothers became alarmed at his long alb
sence and went out to look for him,
finding him lying on the road where the
accident had occurred. He was at once
brought to the city.
In addition to the broken leg, both of
the unfortunate young mans legs are
badly frozen, and one of them will prob
ably have to be amputated, as we'll as
part OF his hands, both of which are
frozen. Lund is a young man only %
years of age, and unmarried. He is a
bright, pleasant appearing young man,
and the sad accident is one to be greatly
regretted.
One of Custer's Men Dies a Pauper.
Minneapolis Times: Thomas Steven
son, a survivor of the famous Custer
raid, died at the city hospital Saturday.
His remains lie at the undertaking
rooms of George DeMeules, Sixth and
Lyndale avenues N. No money can be
procured to defray expenses of inter-
ment, and nov it looks as though the
body would have to be buried in the
potter's field.
Stevenson was born in F%ermanough,
Ireland, and was At years of age. He
enlisted in the regular army in 1870; re-
enlisted in rs, 80, '85, and was dis
charged for disability in 1887. He has
since been drawing a small pension.
He was a member of Custer's band,
and started with the others upon the
charge which meant death. Stevenson's
horse was shot under him. AS the ami
NAL fell it caught the rider and crushed
him, breaking several ribs. He was
shot also in the ankle and hip.
Stevenson has been living for some
time at zoos Emerson avenue N. A
wife and three children survive him, al
though his widow is near deaths door.
a victim to pulmonary consumption.
stevenson's death vas due to lung trou-
BILE.
Some friends Of the deceased have
been about the city soliciting funds
with which to give him a decent burial
but so far have met with small success
They have been unable to secure any
assistance from the state secretary of
the q. A. r., the latter urging the rea-
son that Stevenson wa not a member
of that organization.
If the Baby is Cutting Teeth.
Be sure and use'that old and well-tried
remedy, Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup