{"id":2507,"date":"2011-08-10T07:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=2507"},"modified":"2011-08-10T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T13:27:58","slug":"morb081011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=2507","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 10, 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Horrible, Seething Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1871, the first recorded severe thermal injury occurred at Yellowstone National Park when Macon Josey and photographer H.B. Calfee entered the hot springs area.  In attempting to help a deer out of a similar predicament, Josey fell almost completely into a &#8220;horrible seething pool&#8221; in Upper Geyser Basin near Old Faithful.  His partner Calfee noted: &#8220;I assisted my companion as quickly as possible but in one half minute he was badly scalded from his waist down.  He was so badly scalded that when I pulled his boots and socks off the fleshed rolled off with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Calfee pulled Josey out and constructed a travois to carry him on, dabbing their remaining flour onto &#8220;his raw and bleeding burns.&#8221;  The travois proved unsatisfactory for &#8220;this pathless country,&#8221; so Calfee rigged an arrangement in which Josey could sit with his legs crossed over the horse&#8217;s neck to prevent pain to his burns.  They traveled west in that manner to an old settler&#8217;s place on the Madison River and then north to the Gallatin Valley and Bozeman, Montana.  Unfortunately, Josey&#8217;s fate went unrecorded and remains a mystery but it is likely that he died from his wounds.  If so, he would represent the first recorded human death from hot spring misadventure in Yellowstone. <\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1570980217\/theasylumeclecti\">Death In Yellowstone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Horrible, Seething Yet Truly Morbid Fact! In 1871, the first recorded severe thermal injury occurred at Yellowstone National Park when Macon Josey and photographer H.B. Calfee entered the hot springs area. In attempting to help a deer out of a similar predicament, Josey fell almost completely into a &#8220;horrible seething pool&#8221; in Upper Geyser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}