Iditarod pioneer., 1917-01-27
SUFFERINGS OF MCDONNELL
 ARE RELIEVED BY DEATH

Duncan McDonnel or "Cinnabar" Nc Donnell, as he was better known, who was so frightfully frozen while on trip to Ophir creek, in the kuskokwim, on January and the following days, died last Tuesday night. The news was brought by Dr. Moore, who arrived from Kolmakoff last night
 Dr. Moore left here just a week ago. and was taken to Kolmakoff by relays of dog teams in thirty hours, to give medical aid to give medical aid to the unfortunate to the unfortunate prospector.
 The news came as something of sur prise, because of the fact that during the week news was brought here that McDon- nell was not so severely frozen as was at first believed. Charles Gay, who arrived here last Monday, brought word of the sufferers condition before the arrival at Kolmakoff of Dr. Moore, and another trav- terday, also brought word that there was good chance of saving the patients life, and that he would not be as badly mamed as first reports would indicate Dr. Moore says, however, that the first reports were even short of the truth ss to the terrible manner in which he was frozen.
 According to Arthur Willis, who reached Flat last Friday evening from kolmakoff, on the Kuskokwim, making the trip through without rest or sleep in order to procure medical assistance for the unfortunate man, it seems that Mcdonnell started for Ophlr creek from his cabin on Bear on January z, | and was overtaken by the storm. He was l snowshoeinr and got into an overflow. his snowshoes becoming so clogged with ice 1 that he was compelled to abandon them. His eyes became affected, and he wandered around all that day and night all the fol | lowing day and night and on the third day , he finally managed to crawl to the cabin of his partner on Ophir creek, where the latter and man named Castleman, known as the l Cotton picker" worked over him fer many l hours, extracting the frost from bis limbs. l They started to take him to where assist ance could be rerdered, and were pEertakcn | by another storm and were compe led to make camp without fire, and suffered many 1 hardships before they reached kolmakOh, on the ninth day after the mishap to Me Donnell. By this time 1t was seen that the patient could be taken no farther, and Mir. | Willis started on his trip for ldltarod. McDonnelPs legs were frozen to his knees, i his hands and arms not being badly frozen, however His tongue was frozen, his lips, gums and cheeks also, and when Willis left the sufferer had only occasional spells of | consciousness.
 Wills arranged for five relays of dogs for 1 the transportation of the physician to kol- makoff
 But little is known as to McDonnell's
 antecedents He was born at Gait, Ontario,
 IS years ago, and leaves g sister and a brother, the latter said to be colonel fighting with the Canadian troops in the great war Duncan Mcdonnell saw service in the Spanish-American war with the famous Rough Riders organized by Colonel Roosevelt, enl!sting from Montana He was we'll known around Nome, having worked there four or five years ago at his trade of printer on one of the newspapers. For a time he was United States commls- sioner in the kuskokwim region.