Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1917 — No Food In Seventy Hours. [ARTICLE]

No Food In Seventy Hours.

Not a bite of food for 70 hours was the terrible experience of a native who was admitted-to the Krugersdorp hospital (South Africa). The man had been severely burned about the legs in a fire in an outlying village, and with the other injured persons had been placed on a passing freight train to be taken to the nearest hospital. The man pulled a tarpaulin over himself, and so, when' the others were removed, he was overlooked. The train arrived at Krugersdorp during a Saturday evening, and the truck was shunted into rhe station yard. The whole of Sunday and Monday the native remained without food or water, under the tarpaulin, apd he was only discovered on Tuesday afternoon when a checker went his rounds. Railway men were on the point of placing mealies on the truck when they noticed a z movement under the sail, and the native, semiconscious and partially demented, was found unable to move much. On close examination it was found that his lower limbs were in a terrible state, and he was removed to the hospital.