New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-29

DAVID W. Poe one Of the Oldest residents Of ti,is
county born IN thelState, aud nearly sixty years Of
age left bis iste residence Ct Brooklyn Center, some
Poe, resides. He was accompanied 81 his yoancest
son, jackson, lad Of some sixteen years. Tkev
arrived at Nebraska the last Of November The
in letter to Mr.. Belts Of Brooklyn parts Of Tlich
we extract. TPlafndeaier.
NEsRAsrA CRY, Dec. Is, 1855.
Mr.. A. A. BErrs-Dear Sir: The cir.
cumstances are these They started the 1s OF The
and on the second we. had . heaxy NOV storm, a.
companied by heavy wind, which drifted the snow
into the rayines that it almost impossible for
person e travel On Mondaynight they built cabin
thirtyfye miles. They stayed in the cabin all that
day Tuesday and Tuesday night, and It turned very
cold, and on Wednesday they started for home, and
estimate they came some ten miles and built fire :;
but the wind was so c1angsble they could not stay
by it, and they laid all night in the snow and frosted
e snea was 50 backed h
they would break through, and were obliged to crawl
on their hands and knees more than half the time,
and on Thursday, in this way, they came to vacated
found mattress, sheet, buffdo robe and stove. Du-
ring the day, in crossing stream Of water, father
fell in and got their matches wet and they could not
make fire, and in the cabin the snow Was about q
foot deep, which blowed in at the roof Bat they
shook the snow of the bed and got H. and stad all
night and through the day and night they roze their
feet and hands very bad.
In the morning they commenced cutting their boots
off, and it took them four hours to get them off, and
in the operation they froze their hands, they Mid
like sticks, and their feet at that time were frozen
through They cut up blanket and wrapped around
their feet Then their provisions short, and what
they had was freze 50 hard they eouid not eat it,
They staid in this cabin all day Friday and Friday
night, and that night was the coldek we have had
here. The thermometer stood ct ten degrees below
Zero and they got chilled through. On Friday night,
when they laid down, they expected to die before
morning. In the morning, still finding themselves
alive they concluded to make another start and they
crawled about half a mile gave out and went back,
laid down to die, and about O'Clock N. Saturday
man ont hunting, in going BY. heard NOISE, vent
in and found them in this horrid situation. he went
home, some two and half miles, made stone boat
pletely helpless They kept their feet and hands in
cold water for FIVE hours, and then dressed them with
elm bark poultices, and Sunday brought them some
five miles, and on Monday brought them here. em-
ployed two doctors to attend them and on Thursday
employed the third as anurse but all f6r no good
to poor jackson. On that night, the 18th inst he
breathed his last he had got over it be would have
lost both feet and hands, but it was impossible for ra
to recover, for be was chilled through Fathers fin
gers have all dropped of, and his thumbs to the frst
joint from the end On bis left foot al bis toes, and
On Monday last we had itN1sput9ted two inches
above the ancle joint, *s *gas'
It may make your blood run cold to read these lines
but you cannot guess how much father has suffered
When the doctor cnt his leg of he laid and looked
on without saying word or moving muscle. They
sawed the bones of with carpenters saw. Did you
ever hear of the like Yours, truly,