Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1879 — A Man Amputates His Own Leg. [ARTICLE]

A Man Amputates His Own Leg.

A short time ago a young Chippewa hunter was shooting squirrels in the woods that border Lake Huron, near Penetanguishine, when, by some chance, a large blighted pine fell upon him, knocking him down and crushing his leg, which was fractured in two places. He could not rise—he could not remove the tree which was lying across his broken leg. He was far from the probability of passing aid, and to lie there and starve to death in agony seemed all that was left to him. In this dilemma, with all the fortitude and promptitude of romance, he took out his knife, cut off his own leg, bound it up with his sash, dragged himself along the ground to his canoe and paddled himself home to his wigwam on a distant island. There the cure of his wound was completed, and the man is still alive. Strange as this may seem, t is strictly true.— ldaho World.