Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-29
A REMARKABLE STORY.
About Man Who Was Thawed


A strange procession dashed into
Valeyille at full gallop from the tim
Der out in Putnie township
First there was a four-horse team
hitched to bobsled on which was
what appeared to be very small but
quite long saw log with the branches
only partially cut of, and following
this were half a dozen teams driven
by the farmers who live out in the
neighborhood of the old Bremsine
place, and whose business in the pro-
cession seemed to be that of provid-
ing continual enthusiasm for keeping
up speed.
With great haste and noise they
made their way directly to the Vale
vile public hospital, and in very few
minutes later, all the men being
quickly admitted, disappeared within
the hospital front doors, carrying the
heavy log with them.
It seems that Erringe brave, hired
man, who has been working for Mr..
Bremsine, had ben sent by his en-
ployer the day before to collect some
money-seyeral hundred dollars-that
was due from man who lived several
miles distant, and that when morning
came brave still had not returned to
the Bremsine place with the money,
nor without it, for that matter
Mr.. Bremsine, fearing that his en-
ployee had decamped with the funds,
started out to make search and in.
quiry, and about noon accidentally
discovered the missing man halfway
up a small tree out in the deep
woods, and seeming unconscious,
while all about the tree were discover
ed footprints of wolves, showing that
the man must have been attacked by
a large pack of these dangerous an
imals, and, having climbed the tree
for safety, had been imprisoned there
by his assailants till he was overcome
by the cold and was unable to get
down when the morning light drove
the animals away
The unfortunate man was in a
strange position. In order to hold
himself securely in place, he had
been compelled to wrap his arms and
legs around the trunk of the tree, he
being seated on a small branch at
the time when he was found by those
in search of him. He was so badly
frozen that, even after ladders had
been obtained and they had climbed
up to where he was, he could not be
unwrapped from the tree about which
he was frozen.
The neighborhood is thickly settled,
and in very short time large parsy
of strong, vigorous, willing fuen had
gathered, and steps were Immediately
taken to rescue the dying man if pos
sible. Several loads of straw were
brought and heaped upon the ground
on the side of the tree toward which
it would fall when severed, and then
it was cut down, although every blow
struck on the trunk hurt the snpris-
oned man by means of the vibration
so that he moaned. Then as much
of the tree as was absolutely neces-
sary was cut off, and the remainder
loaded onto a sleigh, to which four
horse team was hitched, and the
whole procession set off for town and
the hospital on a gallop, which was
not slackened till the goal was reach
ed.
At the hospital the very best atten-
tion was paid to the frozen man, with
the result that in a few hours he had
been scientifically thawed out, and
will not lose so much as toe or a
finger by reason of his terrible expo
sure.
He had lost the money, however, in
fleeing from the wolves, and they
had probably eaten it, for it could not
be fcund.-St. Louis Republic.