The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1909-11-15
HANCOCK
"OICK" ROURKE Is FOUND
SUNDAY SAFE and SOUND
Spent Saturday Night at Homestead
ers Cottage and Was on Way to Wi
mona Yesterday When He Was Met
by Large Party of searchers-spent
a Night Alone in the Woods,

"Dck" Rourke is found. After be-
ing lost in the woods in the vicinity OF
Elm River since Friday afternoon he
was met at about 10 o'clock Sunday
morning couple of miles out from
the Winona location by big party of
searchers that left on the Copper
Range sunday morning. He had spent
saturday night at the camp OF Matt
Fredd, who was bringing him i'm to
Winona when the searching party en-
nountered them Mutual greetings
were exchanged and Mr.. Rourke re-
turned to his home in Hancock with
the party, arriving about noon.
Mr.. Rourke was little the worse for
his experience, although he had been
without food or shelter for nearly 26
hours. He expressed the greatest
gratitude for the exertions that had
been made in his behalf and the meet
ing on the Winona road yesterday
morning was an inspiring sight Mr.
Rourke was overwhelmed by the So
llcltude shown regarding his welfare
and was besieged with inquiries re-
garding the incidents Of his being lost
in the woods.
Mr.. Rourke's story of his experience
is as follows
I'VE arrived in our camp near Elm
River shortly after noon Friday and
left the boys telling them that l was
going to take a look at the beaver dam,
,,thf a frnf
camp. l must have gone farther than
! intended, and darkness coming on
quickly | was unable to get my bear
ngs. / gathered up some brushwood
and small limbs of trees and made a
fire. alongside of which / spent the
lIs..,, expecting to be able TO find my
way back to camp i'm the morning by
means of the sun or by noting the moss
on the sides of the trees. Saturday IL
rained all day, and the sun was invis-
ible, and ! found that the moss grew
in equal quantities on all sides of the
bark, so that it was useless to try and
make my bearings from this. l had
no compass with me. We had two i'm
the party. but we had planned to travel
in pairs, so that we thought ii unnec
essary for all four of us to take a
compass | had but three cartridges
with me. and two of these | fired to at
tract attention, but received no re-
case | should come across a wolf, and
need it to protect myself. / listened
carefully to detect the sound of loco
motive or mine whistles by which l
might obtain an idea of where | was. |
but heard none. After roaming about |
in the woods, and being at times with
in a few hundred feet, as | afterwards |
learned, of the main trail through the |
woods, ! came across trail which L
followed, il being the only sign of the |
presence of human beings that / en-
since leaving camp. In about /
half an hour or so / reached n cabin |
in a small clearing, and found myself |
mt the homestead OF Matt Fredd of |
who was there with two of
his sons. They had just got back from
the woods and were themselves soaked |
otherwise / would have asked |
them to take word to camp of my safe
ty / was given some hot coffee and
food and went to bed, leaving my sat
urated garments to dry. At @ o'clock
on Sunday morning Mr. Fredd hitched
up and the two boys started with me
to Winona. on the way in on round
ing q bend in the road we were met
by the party of about fifty who had
come in to look for me. The Fredd
boys went over to Elm river to tell