Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-11-05 | Page 16 | Farmer Drags Self Half Mile on Prairie to Aid after Bolting Team Causes Injury

Farmer Drags Self Half Mile on Prairie j To Aid After Bolting Team Causes Injury, and groin. Rundahl laitTDe-feeliicd "if I" didn't get help I would bleed to death." "There were a lot of snakes (around. I couldn't actually crawl "becauseTny leg waa uaeleaa and hurting terribly. I had to drag myielf along the ground with my hands. I fainted aeveral timea before I got to the highway," the farmer related. i DENVER. Nov. 5 (jfi Colorado Colo-rado GeneraniopTtaTTitlen3anis said today O. N. Rundahl. who chose to crawl half a mile through a snake infested prairie, dragging a broken right leg. rather than lie atlll and bleed to death, had a "fair" chance to recover. The 67-year-old farmer waa found yesterday lying acroas a highway 43 miles northeast of Denver by a rabbit hunter. Rushed to a hospital by tne hunter, Rundahl rallied sufficiently suffi-ciently to explain his team had shied at a snake, toppling III mi from the wagon and causing a wheel to roll across his right leg