Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-02-03
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The Horrors of the Cold.

Enc st. Lotus and Chicago papers Of tn.
70 week in january, are filed with detail.
he intense Geld weather in the West, anl
suffering and death incident thereto.
AT Chicago the effects of the storm were
rful in the extreme. On Friday the Their
@neter fell as low as % degrees, and or Sat
lay at one O'Clock, to IS degrees below re.
Many people were frozen to death. The
bible snow storm, accompanied with high
IDS, which piled it in huge drifts, obstruct,
he regular passage Of trains, and much
nsc suffering, aud in solneaslssnces, death
the consequence. The Times says:
he fierce tornado sweeping over the prai-
i filled the air with moving clouds Of snow,
piled up hugo drifts between the fences,
1g the railroads, until the tracks almost
%rywhero we're impossible by trains.
he train on the Michigan Central RAILROAD,
s ch was due at CHICAGO at half past 10
Xock on Thursday evening, proceeded with
sat difficulty until within about four hun
h yards Of the Michigan Southern crossing,
de sevcnNmiies out. There at six o'clock
Friday morning, almost eight hours be-
ia time, the train plunged into an immense
It, which lay directly across its way, and
lily stopped.
he scene, when the passengers realized
Il perils of the;rsituation, was so terribly
as to battle ali description There were
. hundred passengers on board, many Of
I'm being women and children, with but .
t supply of food.
.nc by one, out into the binding storm
at these WHO were able, and, digging. down
hugh the ~snowdrifts which were piled over
pa, they tore up the fences near the road,
s brought them as fuel to the cars. Soon
New peril broke out among the passengers.
3 roof Of the car. took fire from the heated
5, and as the wind caught the flames they
Fred and cracked and curled downward
Sard the passengers as if in mockery o
misery. The snow was banked almost
&he bottom Of the car, and to separate it
ID the others by land was al utter impos-
Billy.
Elm this moment of peril the wonen wed
kh the men in their efforts for the common
zety. At first it. seemed as if all hope to
kinguishlthe flames were vain, but energies
Ire not siackened or hearts unnerved. The
attest was brief but desperate, resulting
the flames being qus!lcd. The wind and
snow came rushing in at, the great aper-
Re in the ROOF, aud the car was no longer
liable. All the passengers then withdrew
1.-The next one. Proper precautions We're
ken againt a similar disaster there. Bat
4 ashes had unfortunately been entirelyre
$red from. the stove iii this car, ana, when
&cipating no danger, tie foor'of the car
d ire from the bottom OF the stove. 1t
/ ..aca easier cX:irgaisded ;han the other.
! net w;tho0S considerable saboc, or until
krce portion OF tL.c door mad been cut
h., and tk2s &C. thus rendered uatenab.c
jyhe passengers of the entire train were
~ huddled together in tie only remaining
=. Ii was now nearly two o'clock in. the
.;ernoon, and thcre were no signs of the
or.n aba:iug, or of any delivcrance reaching
en-.
Suddenly, however, tAcy were started into
,y hope BIZ the arrival Of u train on the
,chissn Southern Railroad. 1t stopped At
e c~rossing of TWO roads, only some four
sndred yards distant, aad.its conductor sig
fed his readiness to take passengers oftne
iclrigsn Central train into the city. The
crk Of transferring them vas Immediately
,mmeacel, the engine in the meantime NOV,
q the train slowly backwards aud Onward
proven. the nov fiom drifting around and
der it. The distance Between the two
aims, nearly four hundred yards, was filled
i'm a DRIFT nearly ten feet in depth, and 10
axe the passage from one 20 the ether was
work Of great labor and difficulty. The
osc, was at i;s hight, and the cold SO ILL
nsc that the faces Of the women and chill
,yere frozen almost as soou as they came
contact wifi the Withdrawing white as
stantly as if they had been plunged in boil
g water. Scarcely any one made the pas
ge from one train tothe other without being
IDLY frostbitten, many quite seriously.
The women and children lad to be carried
,er to the other train, ard not a few men
ho essaycd it had to demand assistance.
lis was cheerfully rendered by volunteers
ON among the Michigan Southern passea-
&c.
The rescued passengers, Immediately upon
.eir arrival Mt the Michigan Southern train,
ere made as comartable % pssibie. Those
no were frozen were promptly attended &c,
d es tearing up their Landkerehieis and
arts to rub the frozen feet, face aud hands
their unfortunate fellow-travclcrs.
The Michigan Southern train was likewise
by tie spo.r The %coaahot"- was
''s'1 " ''- ~ car in . snowdrift, and
0 on to Chicago to acquaint the people with
lie condition Of affairs. II vas soon known
lat two hundred men, women and children
ere freezing to death within four miles OF
Slcighs, blankets. buffalo robes,
royisions, &C., were Immediately procured,
nd @ party started fer the train. Fha details
f their adventures, although very interest
,g, would occupy too much Of our space.
utilce it to state, that they Were all gotten
, the city, though much frost bitten.
The following terrible incident is given in
he Chicago Tribune of Jan. 4tA:
About thirty miles from the boundary line
etween Michigan and Indiana, in the latter
tate, about midway between Centerville and
rown Point, lived q German, with his wife
nd five children. named Krulzor. The old
was q boy Of seven years Of age, the next
boy OF five, and three gi!ls-ail OF less age
nan the hoys-the youngest but al infant.
The country whsre the family resided is very
and rhe snoW had Griiicd into tho hOl-