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Show HIS FIGHT FOR LIFE. Straggle of a Man Who Met with an Ac-' cldent in the Adirondack. From the heart of the Adirondack wilderness comes the following pathetic pathet-ic story of a woodsman's heroic struggle strug-gle for life, after meeting with a terrible terri-ble accident. The accident occurred on the shores of Lake Massawepie, in the town of Piercefieid. A lumberman by the name of Jerry Dudy had contracted to furnish logs for the mill at Piercefieid. Pierce-fieid. He occupied with his wife and week old baby, a solitary cabin on th shores of the lake. Dudy was at work some three miles in the forest felling spruce timber. One day last week h had cut through a tree about two and a half feet in diameter, and in felling it it had become lodged in some nearbj trees. This is a common occurrence, but the work of disengaging the tret involves great danger, and is the caus of many serious accidents. Dudy proceeded pro-ceeded to "butt off" the tree. Tin crash came at an unguarded moment and he was knocked down, his right le pinned to the earth under the greal weight: He was unconscious for som time, but after regaining his senses hi was not slow to realize the exceeding peril of the situation in which he wai placed. He knew that if he remained inactive for any length of time h would freeze to death.' He could jus! reach the ax, which had fallen neai him, and with his knife he cut ofl a portion of the helve that he might use the blade to better advantage in his reclining position. , The night advanced, ad-vanced, the stars appeared one by on in the heavens, and still the brave maq toiled on. Ofttimes he dropped his aJ in despair. But the thought of wif and baby at home always caused him to take up his task with renewed vigor, At last the tree was cut through, and with all his remaining strength lu rolled the short butt from off his limb. He was free. He tried to rise, but hia strength was fast failing, and he sank to the ground. On examining his leg he found it to be broken in two places and frozen stiff. Late the next day he reached the door of his cabin, almost dead from exposure and loss of blood. He had crawled three miles over the broken and almost undefined wood trail dragging behind him his crushed and broken limb. The thought of loved ones at home had given him strength to accomplish the almost herculean task. His wife rendered such aid as was in her power, and then tramped through the deep snow a distance ot over a mile to the nearest neighbor. Everything was done to relieve the man until a physirijn could arrive from the village of Vfereefield, 13 miles away. Pneumonia set in. He suffered more than human strength could endure, and with the wife and child beside be-side him, for the love of whom he had suffered so much, he passed away. Utica Herald-Dispatch. |