Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-30
Lost IN THE ADraoHDAcxs.
Many Mem Fail to Find Camp, and
Some Wander Days and Months.


Gloversvilie On ~ Cor. New York Tribune
The most remarkable feature of the
years mishaps in the Adirondack region
mas been the number Of men who were
lost In the wilderness. Few people realize
that the Adirondack mountains, in spite
OF trails. streams and clearlngs, contain
stretches OF forest miles in extent in which
one may travel for days without discover
ing any sign of mankind save old ak
marked stumps. Even experienced woods
men become confused on cloudy days and
are unable to find camp for hours, some
times Tor day and a night. The tender
rect or greenhorns. have proved several
ufnes this year that the forest Is no place
bearing
The most remarkable experience record
ed or a lost man in the Adrondacks in re-
cent years was that of Guidas Beurgauit.
ol ran River. Mass. Beurgault was hired
iast spring to watch the grounds of the
ADIRONDACK Fish and Gun Club and guard
II from poachers. In July. before he had
become acquainted with the territory he
look day off fishing He did not return
that night, and two days later a search
was organized to find him. The search was
e con a,' Tor more than five weeks guides
aha clubmen going out daily. Hope of
nndlng him alive was given up. but on
aug ust ~ searchers saw the missing man
staggering aimlessly through the WOODS.
10 the clubhouse and there cared for, He
nad managed to exc out his sustenanca
rom berries, roots and birch bark His
stout constitution and the fact that tta
season was warm allowed him to preserve
his life for so long time
An experience as severe, though of short
e e., duration was that of George Fletch of
Syracuse near Cranberry lake in the mid
Gle or October. Fletch and party of other
sportsmen were hunting in the territory be-
tween Gull creek and Inlet river. Fetch
m n tad fro, hic
circled. When night came all directions
see ned alike, and he was obliged to s.eep
beside little fire he built. Toward morn
Ing rain came down. and when day broke
three days storm was on. Fletch man.
aged to shoot a grouse with his last car
fridge. and he ate II. Thinly clad he wan
dered about all that day and the next try
ing in vain to find somebody Sleet fell
and froze to his coat; game, including a
moose eyed him from a little distance ap-
parentiy realizing that he was no longer a
being dangerous to wild life. At last.
after three frightful nights and days in the
sleety forest, he came to Inlet river. He
did not recognize it, but while wandering
along the bank. almost exhausted he was
found by party of sportsmen, who took
him to Oswegatch;e settlement, and thence
sent him home to Syracuse.
On October II a party of Utica sportsnen
from Camp Hunter. on Beaver river, start
ed out for the usual days hunt. They were
following the camp trail when one of them
discovered man lying under some brush
d lew IeeI from the tra1t. 1t was supposed
he was merely sleeping. but the place SEEM
ed so inappropriate that they tried to awak-
Ell hlnf Ihe man was unconsc, Gus, and
only liberal doses of hunters stimulants re-
vlVed him. He was Charles Casln of Bos-
ton. He had been wandering for more days
than he could tell. and finally fell where he
was found. Had he happened to fall a rod
further from the trail he would undoubted
ly have persisted.
So far as known the only fatal termination
or a lost mans search for camp this year
was when Burton Van Orman of Lake Placid
lost his life. While hunting deer with sew
eral others near Indian Pass, late in the
afternoon of October "a, moose was sight
ed and Van Orman went in chase He lost
has way in the darkness that soon came
Being woods youth he feared the eribes
of his friends II he stayed out all night. so
he Travelled down grade till he came to a
stream or water He followed 1t almost on
ne run, Knowing that it would take him
70 the road. He stumbled and tripped over
cots and fallen branches until he came
% a ten-foot fall over which the brook
fustIed. Van Orman could not see 1t in the
nlght, and at the side of the brink he
ripped and went headlong over the tiny
precipice. He landed on his face in the
shallow water. The fall stunned him and
ne was drowned. His body was found
several days later, and his tracks down
The brook gully told the story of his night
hunt for camp.
On November I, in a severe snowstorm.
Albert Fuller, Utica sportsman and
up North lake. the Erie canal reservoir i'm
Herkimer county. They lost their bearings
IN the binding gale and ran their rowboat
up on stump and upset. Although they
were only few feet from the bank they
could not see it, and while trying to swim
ashore. went in the wrong direction and
lost their lives. Their boat on the stump
tar out of their course indicated their fate
very plainly. They could have waded
ashore If they had known where they were.
In June the skeleton of a man was found
On mountain near Morehousevlle In
Hamilton county. 1t was remembered then
That a year before an old man named
Vrech, living near the settlement, had dis
appeared, and from certain patches on the
aecaying clothes the body was identified
by relatives. 1t Is supposed he lost his
way from a woods trail and died Of starya-
lion and exposure.
Woodsmen say that more men were lost
this year than ever before. They say that
nearly five hundred men ran around
trees" one night each because they couldn't
find camp in the fall hunting season Ordi-
narily man who gets lost is subjected to
the 5eers of his companions, but so many
accidents have happened from falls, shoot
lngs and far wanderings that a compan-
IONS failure to return at night is now a
cause or extreme worry for his friends and
many hundred cartridges are fired nightly
In the hunting season in the wilderness for
the purpose of guiding the wanderers in