The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1868-01-30
a saa AsoFy Lost In fhe snow
ESisiressing Occurrence In
Kansas.

A correspondent 10 Salipa, Kansas,
send. Us an account Of a distressing
occurrence bear that place 90 tho 2Sth
0f last Month Oh tba, day a lad OF
twtlse years, sou Of our old cores.
poudcuI, coloncl w. A. Phillips. had
gpae out shooting in company With hia
saasia, David addison About noon,
al the adsics Of his conspanisn. who
saw storm coming on, he turned 10 70
home lie Immediately started toward
town At rapid galIop. and was never
spSkeh 20 again About one clock i
torriac SNOW storm set IN. Aitar 10 had
set 10, aud before it bad got 20 bewil.
dcrins as TO be completely bIiudiug, a
bog like him wa. seen riding with great
rapid1sy along Mulberry Greek. The
terrible SNOW storm of 1'hankseiv.
ing day seemed 70 iEavel from the north.
wess 10 shc south IL WAS i've O'Clock
before Mr. Addison, with whom the boy
was eth supposed % be, returned home
from ths wood Sach i Heafci a shc
storm permitted was ~ oncc made, but
all 10 vain Tcn days passed away
A hundred people had been searching
for the lost boy, but no tence Of him
war found The horse he rode was
found 10 thc hills 20 miles TO the south
wcst, four days after be was lost Oh
Menday, the 9th inst, kaw fndtsu
visited white settler o0 the Smok y
iiilI River, alta point thirty six miles
from Ssiina, southwest, and told hint
that dead white man was 10 the riy.
err lie was petty chief aud with a
number OF his people accompanied tho
white settlers 10 the spot. II was ouly
halfa mile distaut from the house =
ReArfal of bciag inspected, as these
poor people always are, the cautious In.
dian made his people s;aud on the bank
AVID with the white flag examined Il
there sas any trail Of man near the spot
None was lonnds Then the body was
carefully examined % see if Il had any
wounds il bad nasel IL was the body
Of the boy, With light golden hair aud
road forehead. lie lay ou his face,
his coat and oyercoat still carefully but.
toned up, and bis gloves still on HE
hands. A revolver was buckled .shm,
his little person, which the Indians bad
not molestcd, and two packages d
matches carefully deposited il separate
pockets, The child had ridden thirty.
five 70 forty miles through the noun.
laips that horrible night, bis fiery horse,
q thin.skinned blood, flying before the
horrible storm. From All The evidence,
ho had reached the spot where found
about 10 or 4 | o'clock at night, before
I the snow ceased. He rode into q bend
between Two farms, aud could have seen
them had the snow, which ceased bofore
miluight, Dot filled The air with blus.
tefing drifts, In that one night the
cold was so intense as to freeze the ris-
er thick enough to bear up a man ~
Crossing the last high ridge from the
head Of Spring Greek he must have
been exhausted aud chilled Ills feet
and hands had not been frozen, but OK.
haasted nature fell before the terrible
4cshauAtian and exposure. The coun-
try through which be must have passed
was the toughest and widest in that
section, AT times ihc saex wssl 80
dense that il was 'impossahts 10 SEQ
through 10 lbut few feet 1o have re-
'turnsa home he had lpfepably to face
The ltorin several miles, and M horse
would hold head ieseach Storm Il Is