Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-12

FEARFUL ADvENTURE.-The Missouri Re-
publican, in letter from a Kanzas correspond
ent, has the following;
cat st. Josephs 1 saw Mr.. A. I. German
Of New York, who had just come in from the
mountains in such state of prostration and
atfliction as could only have been occasioned
by such exposure, hardship and suffering as,
perhaps, no other man ever survived. In
company with a Canadian Frenchman and
two Kentuckians he left the country of the
Blackteet Indians, last fall to join Culverson
and party. They arrived at Fort Pierre two
days after Culverson's departure, and hasten.
ed on after, IN the hopes of overtaking him.
On the third day one of those snow-sto
known only in those bleak and elevated re-
gions opened upon them. 1t came down in
solid masses to the depth of four feet, and was
blown about by drifting winds, leveling un-
even places, penetrating and filling their wag-
ons and clothes and obstructing their progress
Evening was approaching and they resolved
to make one effort to reach more protected
place before the night set in. They urged
their horses forward, but had NOT proceeded
more than few hundred yards-Gorman
being mounted on one of the team horses, and
his companion in the wagoR-when suddenly
he felt himself precipitated, he knew not how
far, into an abyss ofsnow. He struggled on,
however, making a slow and tedious way,
until he came to the surface-he supposes
hundred yards from where he sank. He
looked around for his companions, but Meth
er they nor the wagon could be seen. The
place where they had fallen into the chasln,
was smoothed over and presented plain of
of snow. He cried aloud for them, but was
only answered by wild and wailing winds.
A feeling of dread and desolation and de-
spair came over him, and he was about to
yield himself to that death which seemed in
eyitable. Already had the cold penetrated
his frame; darkness was covering the skies
the increasing winds whirled the still falling
snow more iurously he was alone in a vast,
inhospitable, unknown country, without pro-
visions, without shelter, without arms or
ammunition, and he was fearful to take a step
IN any direction, lest he should again be bu-
rled in some deep abyss. His manhood was
subdued he wept like child the memo
rles of his happy home, and of his mother
came fresh upon him he knew the many
anxious hours, the miserable years, that his
unknown fate would cause her; if he could
only send her one word of afectionate adieu,
he could die in peace but that could not be,
and he must rouse himself, He offered his
first prayer for heavenly aid; he arose and
moved forward through the darkness and the
drifts. lie sometimes fell from exhaustion
and felt inclined to reposo; but he knew that
one moments pause was fatal, and he strug
gled OH. The next day he saw some bushes,
which gave him hope Of rest and warmth, but
WHEN he reached them, he found 10 his dis.
may, that the matches in his pocket were wet
and spoiled, aud could not be ignited. His
iedt has become so sore and swollen from con.
itCut walking as to burst the solos from his
shoes, and he was compelled to crawl and
tumble himself along.
Thus he worked his way slowly but uncea.
singy through the next night and the next
day, becoming more faint each hour, and
suffering thousand deaths from hunger,
thirst frosted limbs, sore feet, WEAKNESS and
drowsnoss, when he deserted hut a short
way off. Suddenly revived, like candle
nickering in the socket, he spreng and ran