The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-01-26
BRADSHAW cRANf.
MILES WITH BROKEN LEG.
COURAGE THAT IS suBlIh
Spends Night on bleak Prairie
With Feet Frozen Reaches
Relief.

For genuine grit and vigor OF 6
stitution William Bradshaw, at pa
ent an inmate Of ST. Vincent's hes
tai. is certainly entitled to distincti
above the majority of men. TO ~
characteristics is he indebted Tor
ing alive today and in fair way q
covering without marked cor
auences from the results OF an en-
rience he had last week that Is
few would care to undergo.
Bradshaw has been employed
camp tender by Stocker 4 Hall,
sheepmen, who have q ranch abs
35 miles north Of Terry, small
tion in Custer county. Last Thu
day he left the firms sheep camp
the purpose of going to the ranch
supplies. He was driving tee
hitched to two-wheeled conveyan
When within about six miles q
ranch the clevis that held one q
singletrees to the doubletree Dec&
loosened, causing the singletree
fall to the ground. It struck the no
on the heels, frightening the amin
which began to plunge and rear.
remaining horse also became frighu
ed and started to run. Inc wy
given ITO the cart threw Bradshaw
and before he could get out OF the
one of the wheels passed over
left leg. When he attempted TO a1
ha found that the member had ~
broken and he was unable to wall
Begins to Crawl.
| Most men i'm his position WQ
have given up and prepared "a
selves for the death that seemed
possible of escape, as the day
intensely cold and the distance
where relief was to be had too g
to give warrant to the hope tina
could be reached alive. But the ne
he had displayed on many former
casions did not desert Bradshaw
he proceeded to make his way 10
ranch, for he knew 1T was useless
look for succor, as his coming
ont expected at the ranch and
place at which he found himself
not expected at the ranch and
Painfully he began to crawl tow
the ranch and inch by inch he sig
left the scene of his mishap.
agon% ne endured ac times seemed
great for human to bear, but he
tinued what often seemed q hope
task.
At last darkness overlook him,
: the ranch still many weary m
away. Exhausted nature could
stand the awful strain no longer,
he fell over onto his side and graft
sleep came to him and Tor hours
was unconscious and dead to his
fering. Daylight finally began
show and Bradshaw awoke. The
that had been biting his feet had
ed and over both a feeling OF ny
ness had come, the meaning OF u
his long life on the prairie had eaA
him. He knew they were frozen.
His Courage Rewarded.
Once more he proceeded 20
: himself over the rough, frozen gnc
that cut into the flesh on his e
? and added further to his misery.
after hour ne crawled and at
when it seemed outraged nature
: no longer survive, the welcome
:. of the ranch house greeted MS
Q len and feverish eyes. Stia TOO
: awav ito make himself heard,
crawled on, driven to greater ane
newed exertions by the thougnt
only a little more and ne wouls
( where he could receive the care
8 attention for the lack OF wh1e1
was all but dead.
At last he reached the cree
helow THE house and was observer
MR. stocker and some others VINO
naned to be out of doors. UnaDil
make out what the black object
that was slowly advancing TOY
4 them. they went to where 4 was
9 found Bradshaw, more dead
o, alive.
8 Tenderly they picked him up