COEUR d'ALENE - When the cab driver and newspaper editor found Damon Rowe's unconscious body around 3 a.m. Thursday, it was nearly frozen and bleeding in the snow.

Emergency responders would tell Eugene Adkison, the Scott's Taxi driver who spotted Rowe on Lakeside Avenue near Ninth Street, that Rowe couldn't have survived much longer had it not been for the cab driver's action.

"I about (soiled) myself," Adkison said Thursday, on when he first touched Rowe's slumped body, on which the clothes were soaking wet except the parts that were beginning to crystallize. "I thought he was dead."

Rowe, 27, is recovering. Read more. Tom Hasslinger, Cda Press

Thoughts?

---

---