Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-01-23
Cold Eriday--ISEG.

The 10Th of January, 1910, was day
the intense GOODNESS of which will long be
remembered by those who experienced its
rigor. Those who were not out Of doors,
but had reached an age rendering them ca
pable of retaining impressions then re-
ceived, have, doubtless, a recollection Of oc-
currences taking place around them. The
evening previous was as mild as those we
have been favored with in such numbers
this winter; but in the night the wind
changed, the air suddenly became cold, and
the mercury in less time than l6 hours de-
scended TO / 8 degrees below zero. A bois
ferrous wind prevailed, by which trees and
in some cases, houses were blown down,
and the day became memorable in New
England as The Cold Friday" Here in
Concord, so near as our recollection serves,
there was very little going from place to
place. Farmers piled on the wood and at
4 tended to their cattle, and that was about
all for the day. In this village, such as
went to the neighbors or to store, upor
errands which could not be deferred sped
over the ground like squirrels, and were
fortunate if they returned with no fesl
c frozen by the intensity of the frost.
!, From Vol. v. of the New Hampshr,
/, Historical Society's Collections, the follow
ing account is taken OF an occurrence Of
that day in the town of Sanbornton:
1 eOn Friday morning, the 10th Of Jan
e uary, Mr.. Jeremiah Ellsworth of Sanborn
: ton, finding the cold very severe, rose abou
an hour before sunrise. 1t was but shor
e time before some part Of bis house wa
burst in by the wind. Being apprehensiv
% that the whole house would soon be demo
Of ished, aud that the lives of the family wer
m in great jeopardy, Mrs. Ellsworth, with be
IF youngest child, W HON she had dressed, wei
Re into the cellar, leaving the other two chi
Or dren in bed. Her husband undertook 10 {
ne to the nearest neighbor, which was in
n was so strong against him that he found
of Impracticable. lie then set OUT for NJ
he David Browns, the nearest house in ano;
si- err direction at the distance of quarter
mile. He reached there about sunri.
lat his feet being considerably frozen, and
ty so overcome by the cold that both he a
m Mr. Brown, thought it too hazardous
him TO return. But Mr.. Brown went vi
.he his horse and sleigh with all possible spe
vas to save the woman and her children FRI
OF impending destruction.
err When he arrived at the house he fou
uld Mrs. Ellsworth and one child in the cell
and the other children in bed, their clotl
not having been blown away by the wind,
ich that they could not be dressed. Mr. Bro
rn- put a bed into the sleigh, and placed
un, three children upon it, and covered III
De- with the bed clothes. Mrs. f. also got
who to the sleigh. They had proceeded o
ator six or eight rods before the sleigh !
my. blown over, and the children, bed I'D {
ing ering were scattered by the wind. \
of Ellsworth held the horse, while Mr. Bro
rn- collected the children and bed and pla
It's them in the sleigh again. She then I
this cluded to walk, but before she reached
the Browns house, she was so benumbed by
ying cold, that she sunk down to the gro,
was finding it impossible TO walk any FUR
sion At first she concluded she must perish,
ions Stimulated bya hope of escape, she n