Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-26
A Night under the Snow.
A THRILLING STORY.

THRILLtNo RTOHts
Most readers have heard Of the dangers
which often attend the crossing ofthe Alps
In the winter. Travellers are sometimes
overwhelmed by uvalOnches of snow from
the precipices which overhang the road, and
left to perish. A writer in T'dirs Magazine
tells the following story of party thus over
taken. We find it in Littell's Living .qge;
The party consisted of five in oll--the
husband and wife, English people,) the
nurse and baby, and an Itaiali--Atfom Aosta,
familiar with the dangers of the journey
| They set out early in the morning, and ar
rived little before nightfall at part Of the
pass, which, owing to the driving of the
winds, is easily clioked up. The snow had
| begun TO fall about an hour and half pre-
viousy, and was now pouring down the
ravine before the blast, binding both horses
and positions, and bringing along with it
premature night. They had hoped to reach
the summit before darkness set in; bht the
horses were weak, and the snow, for the
last hour at least, had greatly retarded their
progress. All the solicitude of the husband
seemed to be concentrated in the wife, while
all hers was in the baby Self seemed
equally absent from the minds of both. The
nurse, for her part, displayed the utmost
stoicism, except that, as the cold increased,
and the snow-driits beat more aud more tit
riollsly against the carriage windows, she
! pressed the child more closely to her breast,
and protected it from the influence of the
air with greater allowance of sliaws. The
Italian, who understood thoroughly the
peris of the position, went on talking with
| the husband, who, while his eve was fixed
upon his wife and child, appeared calm and
collected, though, from certain laundering
noises above, it appeared probable that tue
uvalarches were III motion. At every ten
yards, the carriage was stopped by the uccu-
mulated snow. "Jane," said the husband
at length 10 his wife, Site up your tliroai
carefully; we may have TO walk presently
and you, nurse, make the baby comfortable,
and give him to me-"
The nurse obeyed, and the mother, look
ing anxlously at her child, inquired, will
suppressed eapestness, William, is there
any danger ?"-" Yes, n little, love, just
enough to impart an air of romance TO ouI
adventure."-" llark!" exclaimed the wife
"whats that ?"-" My God cried the
nurse, "the mountain has fallen Oh us."-
Just at that Instant loud shout was heard
from the men outside, followed by sup.
pressed struggle and a groan, aud then the
most complete silence. All motion was al
the same time arrested in the carriage, and
on applying the lamp 10 the windows, il WA
perceived that they were embedded in thicl
) snow. ~
"What is to be done?" exclaimed the En-
4 glishman, addressing himself to the Italian
J, "Can your experience suggest any means o
s extricating ourselves from this position?
F. we force our way out, do you think it posi-
!, BILE we could reach some place OF shelter
: No." answered he, "tllat is impossible
: All we can do is TO remain where we are
G they will dig us out in the morning." Ano
Z the drivers" observed the Englisbman,
S sudden thought flashing across his mind
T. "what is TO become OF them? they will die
of cold."-" They are dead already" answer
ed the Italian the first stroke of the ava
! lanche eXtinguished life in them-what yol
!. heard was their deatll-groan." "Impossi
= ble," cried the Englishman I" ] must force
: my way out, and endeavor TO drag then
a hther.
: The confined space into which they haC
:. to breathe would have rendered it necessary
!. TO let down the windows, at the risk of adj
y hitting quantity of snow but all egres:
D was impracticable. They were entombed
as it were, in the avalanche, which, fortu
. ndtcly lOT tlleIn, was sOit ana EpOnEy, per-
\ nitting air to pass through its pores ye
: the heat soon became almost insufferable
r aud once during the night the lady tainted
= Travelling carriages in the Alps ure always
3 well supplied with provisions and restora.
n lives, and as the Englishman never once
n lost his presence of mind, every thing prac,
n ticable was done for wife, nurse and child
:. What their language aud feelings were INA,
: possibly be imagined. All the Italian could
Il say, as he ,elated the story, was, that il was
G very terrible, which he uttered in tone
d more significant than his words.
" Well, morning came at last, as they knew
5 by consulting their watches; but it brought
5 no light with il, and for some time nc
d sound. AT length confused rllmbling was
: heard through the snow, which died away
i and came again by fits, ill at length it be.
came evident that it was the voices of men
: After protracted interval, CLEAN OF day.
: light entered the carriage, the snow was
!. cleared partially away, and the weIcomc
: face of a rustic was beheld peering down
g upon them. Their deliverance was now
G speedy, and they were conveyed half dead
6 10 chalet, The whole party escaped with.
Q out injury.
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