| Show endured much hardship valdez alaska april 2 the mail steamship dora arrived from yesterday bringing charles burns the last member of the boat crew that left the camp of the castaways casta ways of the steamship Fa rallon at illanna bay cook cool inlet after the Fa rallon had bad gone on the rocks january 5 burns refused to accompany the remainder of the crew when they left bay to cross strait to kodiak island easing saling that ho he would try to reach cold bay on the aleutian peninsula and catch the dora when she made her regular call there burns set out alone in a little open dory with a small quantity of dried salmon valmon for food and headed southwesterly skirting the coast his supply of salmon became exhausted and he rowed his craft a whole day without food the shore offering him no inducement to land finally burns sighted a prospectors cabin and made a landing in the cabin was a shotgun and ammunition burns shot a number of wild ducks cooked them and feasted and rested shooting more ducks the gun waa was accidentally discharged tearing off a finger and ot otherwise berwise mutilating his hand the wound bled profusely and burns could not stop the bleeding he ile pulled off in ins his dory and rowed twenty miles the blood continuing to flow burns landed and camped while he lie slept ci hausted bausted from loss of blood the tide earned carried away his boat alid the cooked ducks that were in it weak and hungry burns started on foot through the snow for kalmal he ile arrived within sight of the town but could not drag himself further 6 and went nent into camp the next day he lie staggered to balmai where he lie found the census enumerator had just departed for cold bay with a dog sled indian runners went nent after the enumerator and induced him to return to kat mai he ile took burns on ou ins his sleigh and earned carried him to cold bay where they arrived just in time to catch the dora at a physician treated bams hand and the dora dom landed him at kodiak his home burns bums will recover casays wife was nas at the hospital where she had bad undergone a very nery serious operation a few days before mrs kelley called to inquire as to mrs casays condition Is she quitt quietly ly mra mrs kelley asked no but I 1 am said casey national monthly county attorney arthur of washington was a city visitor on official business tuesday opt |
