Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-02-24
MINERS LONG Walk
Walked Nearly 200 Miles Sin Deep
Snow Through Bleak Region !.

Win 1an9rene GnaWln0 one OF his
Hands, After Having Fingers
Frozen, Finds Friends When
Almost crazed.
Whitehorse, Yukon River Territory.
After undergoing almost unparal-
leled hardships and being the victim
of a combination of vicissitudes that
would have caused most men to give
up in despair, Michael McMurray,
'sourdough" prospector and trapper,
widely-known in the Yukon, reached
this town and is now confined in the
general hospital, where he is being
treated for gangrene. ~
With one hand half eaten away by
gangrene, with mo food save a frozen
chunk of raw moose meat, and with
out matches to light fires and thus
protect him from the bitter cold, Nc.
Murray walked nearly two hundred
miles from the head waters of the
Dease river to Teslin, arriving there
in a semi-delirious condition. Nc
Murray was given care at Teslin by
the men there in charge of Taylor &
Drury's station and by them sent to
Atlin and on to the hospital at White
horse
Up to three weeks ago McMurray
was in the heart of vast unexplored
territory about one hundred and sew
enty-five miles north of Teslin. He
h0on
an occasional trip to Teslin for. sup
plies, which he packed back to his
headquarters, near the head waters of
the Dease river. McMurray, besides
prospecting. was trapping and depend
ing largely upon wild game for food
His last trip to Teslin was made early
last spring, when he had the, ,misfor-
tune to freeze the two first fingers
of his right hand IL" '|''''' ~
AS result of the freezing the two
injured fingers commenced to decay
about the middle of the summer, and
for a time McMurray feared that he
might lose his hand. To remove the
dead bone, which panied him intense
ly, he tied stout cord about the
bones of his two affected fingers, tied
the other end Of the cord to a tree
and actually had the hardihood to pull
off both bones at the first joint. This
somewhat allayed the symptoms of
gangrene and McMurray, instead of
returning to: civilization for medical
treatment, remained in the wilds, trap.
ping and prospecting.
Three weeks ago he strayed several
miles from his cabin visiting his traps
and when he returned he found his
cabin blazing heap of ruins, it hay
ing caught fire in some way in his
absence. Every possession that Nc
Murray had in the world, except the
clothes he had on, his rifle and about
tWentyIrodnds. of ammunition and a
chunk of raw frozen moose meat that
wasi hangingsi aftree near his cabin,
had gone up in smoke. McMurray did
not even have, q match on his person.
Realizing that he was in a perilous
predicament, McMurray at cnce
struck2 OUT for sTeslin, ,; packing his
fr1zens piece, of meat ON his back. aIt
was terrible trip. The weather at
times as was Is or even 30 degrees be-
low zero and sas assMcMurrayshad mo
:! matches ma .,: he was compelled to, keep
travelling through the cold nights to
Keep from, Freezing. Near the moon
time in thes day. when the sun, was
high, he would, burrough il the snow
banks and snatch a.few hours . Of rs rok
eni rest: ii Even then he suffered bitter,
qy from the cold Land both feet were
frost bitten and heiwas, comp I'd
'Nraplhis) drawers about his feet.N
4 Only his fndomitable Irish pluck kept
fMcMurray 3 going and att the aepd9of
sixty daYsstrayeli4g be staggered into
iWlhiitkeFhlotrse, half deHrious and almost
! wholly 1Zh1 AL sexhausted, There portions OF
the bone were removed from the. i palm
Of McMurray's right hand and; it VIII
be- several weeks before he WIFI have
recovered from, his trip sufficiently to
leaves the hospital!0iM su.a!f3aviSn i.
McMurray says he willsreturn to
lhiRdsolated' retreat early next spring.
1Hessays shey has, llleeated ;no, less, than
ts lx zpgro0m4dislng quart eledges,, FIVE OF
y which ;4 carry free milling gold and. the
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and lts Arrival At 400 Causes
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rived atfthe Bronx zoos the fother day.
Its presence was theocause6of excite
mqent not eonlys lf among 70 Visitors and
keepars, bpt amP4opg The ft.e,, Rocky, Noun.
tain. goats, next to whose cage the
CIV WIFI arfiVal' Was was 81 plaead. 7es7
TITS musk6f,, witch ii said Is Sc
thee only ohe inh captivity Ia a1ehe
United States, aawasl . brought sYfronl
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