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Show LOST IN WILDS Terrible Experience of a Hunter Who Made a Thrilling Journey. A thrilling hunting season adventure is reported from Albernl, where, with shoes almost dropping Horn his bleeding feet clothing that was merely a maze of rags and tatters, and the general appearance of a wild man, Antonio Delpoute of Cumberland Cum-berland succeeded In dragging himself up to a farmhouse at the head of the Albernl valley Between woltlsh bites at food placed befoie him he explained that he had spent live days and nights lot In the bush Meanwhile, several parties had lieeu searching for him. Delponte'S adventure was curious. He i.n Cumberland for a hunt, making for the mountains east of Ash lake In the thick bush Of that neighborhood he un-c un-c ms. loiisb sod the ell i-lde anrl wandered wan-dered over to the Great Central lake side of the range, and there became utterly confused by the countless small streams and dense underbrush Day followed day and. losing all sense of locality or direction direc-tion relponic, famished and frantic, pushed deeper and ib e-pi r Into the wilderness. wilder-ness. The fortunale discovery of a few rotten potatoes in :in abandoned prospec-lor's prospec-lor's i abln cam. in time lo save him from sinking Shortly afterward a grouse fell to his gun. and was eaten raw. and with better strength Delponte turned couth. On the evening of Iho Hflh day out the distant ?o ind of a shot came to the ears of the lost hunter, the first evidence of human habitation It wan heard In time-to time-to cause thi hapless man to desist In a Second swim across Stamp rlyer. which, if continued, would have taken him again Into the wilds of the Great Central lake or Elk river, and lo almost certain death. The fact that deceived by the crossing of the mountains, DelpbntO traversed all the unexplored country between Cumberland Cumber-land and Albernl in live days and nights Is a matter of maivel to biehmen, who CUP explain the possibility of such a performance per-formance only by the strength of seml-madneas. seml-madneas. Drlpontc's accomplishment, however, contradicts the accept. -d theory as to rhe Inaccessibility eif the Great Central Cen-tral lake country, and prospecting In that loacllty promises to be considerably stimulated Another Vancouver Island man to experience ex-perience the unpleasant sensation of being be-ing lost n the woods is w Lowder of the Tyee smelter. Me went hunting on Sun-das Sun-das 1 ' i with a friend, striking Into the bush in ar Haslnm creek The arrangement arrange-ment wns that the two w re to meet at th'li starting point four hours later, 1 owder did not show up. and after waiting wait-ing for hours a search was organized, it was late at night when the lost man was located, exceedingly fired and hungry, but uninjured Victoria (B. C.) Correspondence Corre-spondence St. Paul Pioneer-Press. |
