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Show oo WOUNDED HUNTER HAS HEROIC COURAGE FORT WILLIAM. Ont., Nov 1. Th I .engineer of a slow freight train Tues- H 'day saw a man standing on the trucks H 'leaning on a canoe paddlo and feebly H I waving a red bandana. H He stopped. Th.i man collapsed. H The Stranger, suffering from a high H fever, was taken to a hospital. This ' I WM his story, gleaned from his ra - I H lngs; l! He wiuH William Anderson and ho H Hived In Amy. H tut hunting on Birch lake, he ac- H cldentaliy shot himself in the log two H days ago. The bone was shattered. i. on paddle io- mado a splint, il. . shirt he used as a bandage. His H neck tie served ;is a tourniquet. ' 1 Patohlng himself up, ho took hi? H lother paddlo for a crutch and began 1 Idi iuglng and pushing himself along through two miles of brush to the railroad tracks, it rai slow work and H bitter cold. He moved only a few I yarda an hour but he kept on. He reached the tracks Monday. For H 24 hours he waited, without food or water, for a train. Ho may recover. |