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Show I Orphan Tots Tramp 14 Days Over Snow FORT WILLIAM. eni . Jan 27. Six little Indian children who left tho frozen bodies of their father and mother in the northern trapping wilderness, today reached Watcomb on the Canadian government railway after a fortnight of tramping over snow-covered ground The five younger children ranging upward from a baby of n few J months, were brought back by their 14-year-old brother and a neighbor Their father. Atchlmo TV. Tucbces, trapper, and their mother both lied of influenza in the family s woodland hut on Friday, January 13 That day the father called Atchlmo. the oldest boy. to his bedside, told him the end was near, gave him SI 200, the lrults of his trapping, and bade him caro for his brothers and sisters. There was little food in tho home. Unable to bury the bodies Atchiino left them In the shack with the I five other children while he Bet out on snowshoes to fetch tho nearest neighbor, 30 miles away. Two days later the youth came bae k with John Ulngoosh, the neighbor. The five hungry tots were chewing raw mooseflesh for nourishment. Thev had burned mos of the furniture to keep from freezing. The bodle.s oi their parents were frozen stiff The younger children wero packed on the dogsled by Ulngoosh and Atchimo, who then began tho long mush to Watcomb, where the were fed and given medical aid It is feared the baby will die. |