Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-04-10
Death on NJ. Washington.
NINA 7. BuHKE

ier When a year ago, a winters sojouI
upon Mt. Washington was proposed. the
oil were many misgiyings in the public min
g about the safety Of the enterprise, an
ed whether those who so literally burie
De themselves in an artic winter would ev,
nd come out alive. Their daily reports wei
he read with eagerness, and the story Of the
adventures thrilled many hearts. But a
a sooner was the possibility made certain
at than the government determined to esial
ID lish a permanent meteorological observe
IN tory upon the mountain, so that for NOR
than a year there has been no interruptio
OF this life amid the clouds. 1t is the onl
station government has in the upper cur
rent Of the atmosphere, and is found to b
about the most valuable of them all in tn,
S daily prediction Of the weather for III,
benefit Of sailors and ship owners; from
the simple fact, that changes in the wealth
err, the approach of a storm, or the return
Of fair weather are earlier indicated in the
upper than in the lower strata, by cores.
pOnding changes in the barometer and
thermometer.
The names Of the two men who have
been passing the present winter upon the
mountain, are Martin l.. Hearne, SER
geant, and William Stevens, private, of
the signal corps OF the US army.
Unlike their predecessors of last winter
whose company consisted of several per-
sons, who several times we're favored
with visitors, and who were continually
receiving the congratulations of the pub
lie, their stay has been one Of almost en-.
tire secIusion. About the only visits of.
any Importance have been by Is. Kilburn,
the wel!-known photographer, in search of
frost views upon the summit.
For several days Stevens had been i'll,
unfit for duty, and a man had been detail.
ed and was enroute from Washington to
take his place. On Monday, February
2lst, a telegraph came that Stevens was
suddenly very sick. A doctor was i'm.
mediately called who took his place in the
telegraph Office at Littleton, and by tele.
graph inquired infinitely in regard to his
symptoms, and soon pronounced his dis.
ease paralysis. The same physician, with
kilburn, soon started with the intent to
carry medical aid. They were to have
assembled Tuesday morning, but the
weather would not permit, with the mer.
at t%wenty.four degrees below zero. {
and the wind at eighty miles an hour. {
And if they had gone it would have 7
been without avail, for the paralysis rapid. a
y extended over his body, soon rendered s
lin speechless and insensible. He died v
'arly Tuesday morning. He was thirty 0
Wo years OF age, a native Of France, had o
10 relatives in this country, and On coming Z
0 the United States a few years ago. had h
.ropred his French name for one of pure IL
He is reported as one faithful tt
duty, loved and trsted by friends AMI al
lperiors. His comrade was there alone h
18th his body full thirty-sixhours. 1t does al
OF appear that his disease was in apy m
ay ocasioned by the pcrils of The service, at
it is not improbable that it might th
ave been induced by their necessarily tn
'nfined and sedentafy life. ar
Wednesday, the wind having lullcd, a re
lrty of six, including the new assistant to
server, Robert j. Bill, prepared to as he
nd the mountain to bring down the on
dy. They were under the lead of Kill :"
I'm, almost as well known in the region be
a mountain climber, as for his unrivall.
pictures. Their ascent is described as col
AsB>' W.
two of the party being obliged mig
draw on the strength of the others for TO
. last part of the way. They returned rea
same day. lnclosiDg the body in a we
ong box, with runners under the fore. rer
and with strong handles nailed upon Cir
OF the four corners to be crashed hv tina
If men, and with a rope to be tightly and
d IN the rear, it was easily and safely bac
! down the mountain all the way upon !
railroad track. except around .,Ja. moi
IS Ladder" The body was brought UNI
Littleton, Thursday and on Friday his the
eral was attended in the Congregation. COW
A large company o f people as. bcrl
1bled to let fall a tear of sorrow over to S
bier of one, who having died above the of I
Ids, was gently laid in his lowly bed wat
the hand of entire strangers Rep. e. ally
Ma9iken, IN Congratulated. dan
. han
The district attorney has finished his und
mination Of the voluminous bill Of ex- his
tlons, covering nearly 1000 papes ofl are