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DEATH IN 4 SNQW STORM.
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nteresting Account of a Winter
Spent in the Wilds of Idaho.
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. Noten people, said the old miner,
the € ty caught a live coal from
Wood fire, around which we had
$e thered after our day's hunt in the
g Bie woods, and thrust it in the
Owl Of his pipe, have but little idea
ol the heavy snow falls of the
Rockies and the Sierras, or what
dam Is often caused from the ac
¢ ated weight,
member well, he added, hearing
ther tell how in York State
Lack in the thirties, that the fall was
IN ¢ 50 great that the men were com-
eled to organize relief parties to dig
Vay the big drifts from many of
© houses, and that when driving
ng 1 Streets one could almost
the level, into the second
ndow. But as I passed the
Wwenty years of my life in that
ind witnessed nothing more
ble than drifts over the top
OK, fre
fences and the temporary
of the scarcely-traveled
ids, T conclude those stories
lave gained somewhat from the
years.
* Smoked rapidly and quietly for
perhaps to gather his
little and resumed, ‘Why
all was so excessive and contin-
once in Idaho Territory upon the
b roof of our mill, that the large
"of 12x14 below which the en-
1d been built, was bent almost
ng. We feared our extra
would surely break it, ~ but
ely the weather changed, the
mith w
SNOW low the eaves of the
settled
ge mass and by night
d a minature snow slide and
ie strain. I believe, how-
imber never regained its |
sition. ut in the mining
* Sierras where 1 wintered
"sixties, our first snow fell
ber and in the morning lay
n the level. The storm
forty-eight hours and we
autfiful weather for sev-
When tne snow had par-
the frame of a ten-|
from which the wagon
removed, was found to
0 splinters, even the
wheels being torn and
all recognition. Irom
pember until May, se-|
of very frequent oc
actual measure-
v nearly thirty feet
travel any distance |
course impossible, |
and ‘every man,
me more or less
yl the Norwegian
ith them the
cleven feet
blew up the canyon |
1 so that we could dig |
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About ten minutes later the boy
glided up to the window, opened it
and called out, “Pap says all of you
come over quick, bring lots of snow
shovels and a couple of blankets,
Let some of the women get one of the |
bed rooms warm and make some hot
soup and coffee.” It don’t take
much time for us old fellows whose
lives are full of tragedies and start-
ling episodes, to get ready for almost
any kind of centingency; and before
the boy had stopped talking, more
than two dozen strong and willing
men and several of the other sex, not
always the weaker sex in a mining
camp, were gliding over the interven-
ing half mile. It was a beautiful
morning after the storm and in the
light, crisp air of that great altitude
every object stood out as clear and
distinet as if all natifre rejoiced, and
no thought of death was possible. The
green branches of the many pines
were heavily weighted with the late-
ly fallen snow, and the level expanse
of Meadow Lake with its white cov-
ering glistened in the bright sunlight
like an immense mirror.
Not a word was spoken nor a sound
heard in the still air, except the
swish of our snow shoes, as we
glided rapidly toward Carlton’s cabin.
[ais was built, as I have said, a lit-
tle distance from the more thickly
| settled part of the town (although
now very many of the smaller cabins
were buried out of sight and upon
| our arrival, nothing could be seen to
| distinguish its position, except a huge
{ mound of snow and the ends of two
{ snow shoes; presumably where the
{chimney was. Two dozen willing
| hands were soon hard at work, clear-
ing away the huge drifts, and as soon
as the chimney was uncovered we
found, as we feared and expected,
{that the space around it had been
[permitted to lie and harden. It was | :
{but too plain that what had fallen | gestive » “Gibson girl,” but in a AN INEXPENSIVE
| during this previous storm had ape | Sesiive of the on Jae - GIFT, COSTING ONLY
ly filled the small space below the |
chimney cap, and the cabin been her- | slightest forward bend at the waist, extra heavy
| metically sealed. As soon as the |
opening was made, a couple of us|
| climbed down. Poor Carlton stood, {rect poise is not attained all at once—
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{ were no matches in the cabin or up-
on his person. He had evidently slept
long and soundly and realized from
his sensations when he awoke and be-
! came partially conscious that he was
| being smothered. That he had become
| bewildered and had wandered aimless-
{ly around the cabin was evident by
the articles strewn upon the floor, and
when he finally found the chimney,
| had been too weak to make the
{ascent and had gradually fallen into
his last sleep.
We judged he had been dead for
forty-eight hours or more, and as the
| storm was raging so flercely at that
| time, it is by no means certain that
| he could have been rescued, had his
ssure,
urned
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der does
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t long
is the
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en be-
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mile a min-
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leep snows the
» miner would
ire is always |
s far as pos-
3 that come
When there
nd shovelling
ow is per-
Is and in-
hin is made |
| condition been known.
The body was wrapped in blankets
and tenderly carried to the hotel,
and prepared at once for burial. The
grave was dug near an old pine tree
through twenty-four feet of snow,
and steps had to be cut to lead down
to the ground. There was no minister
in the camp, but one of the women
brought out a prayer book and the
burial service was read and probably
each one of us sent up some sort of
a prayer, that he might make a hap-
py landing on the other shore.
Over a hundred men and women on
snow shoes accompanied the body
from the hotel to the grave, the wind
singing a soft requiem as we laid the
body away in that great white sepul-
cher and commented upon the-singu-
lar fatality that had carred him safe-
ly through years of bloody strife, to
at last meet his death in that strange
manner 8500 feet above his home of
| early days on the rock-bound shores
of the Atlantic.
rr eet ——
Briefs from Everywhere.
No intoxicants were allowed Rus-
sian prisoners in Japan.
80 fires for |
¢ a breath
“and none
kan be kept
hung in
The chim-
v by means
cor its top,
Jo 08.
A carved war god supposed to be
| over a thousand years old has been
{ found in a cave in Colorado.
One ounce of radium contains pow-
| er enough, if it could be utilized, to
lift ten thousand tons one mile high.
The Arabs claim that Eve's grave
is in a cemetery at Jeddah which was
closed for interments over a thou-
yr | sand years ago.
1 and
0 him-
forty
The Denver and Rio Grande Rail-
road is employing Navajo Indians as
etion hands, finding them better
| workmen than South Europe laborers.
The herring is one of the most mig-
ratory of fish. They are only caught
as a rule during the spawning season.
Where they go to after that is not
nown,
aw postage stamps which Ja-
ting for Korea show a chry-
smblem of Japan, a plum
'm of Korea, and two
vic of the postal ser-
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ished a work about giants,
ith Adam, who he asserted
t 9 inches tall, Eve being
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