Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-02-07

life like practical, unselfsh hero, every
day in two mile tramp through drifts four
or FIVE feet deep to get food for them
THE STAGE OF DEATH.
The stage left Madelia for ST. James, /
having eight passengers and driver. On /
"Wednesday morning, not having arrived,
search was made for it. Ii was found on /
the road. the horses frozen to death. the (
driver grinning corpse on the seat, with /
the rens still in his hands, and eight /
bundles of robes and clothes in the bottom
of the sleigh. each of which contained a /
soulless lump of icy flesh.
Mr.. \. X jenkins ofthe Cleveland, Ohio, !
Bridge company, who was experimenting
the building of an iron bridge at Rock
Rapids, Iowa, was travelling by stage thence
to Sibley. Arrived at the latter place the
other passengers disembarked. lie did not
stir. They called him, they touched him,
and 10 Death had ridden with them for
some time, and the body was already rigid.
At Oshaw, about hundred yards from
the railroad station, were found two horses
harnessed to a cutter, in which, sitting bolt
upright, were two men dressed in warm
buffalo coats They were frozen stiff and
dead. John Hagameyer of Elizabeth,
started to 90 from his house to his black
smiths shop, $50 yards away. He was
found two miles distant, frozen to death.
At Herman, on the St. Paul a Pacific
road, man was frozen to death going from
the station to the tank-house
At Nicollet, within twenty yards Of the
railroad station, man was found frozen to
death in his sleigh.
In the same village, another man lost his
life while trying to close his barn door,
blocked by snow drift.
Mr.. Charles Deming, mail carrier be-
tween Vermillion and Swan Lake, hung u
buffalo robe over the wheel Of his buggy
and spent twenty-siX hours in this poor
shelter, freezing one foot and one hand.
When the storm ceased, he found himself
within forty yards Of house
At Fort Ridgeley. three brothers were
hauling grain when the storm came on them.
They sought shelter in their grain cribs il
an open field. All three We're found there
dead.
Mr.. Lee and his son, aged thirteen, left
their house, near Sioux City, on Tuesday,
for load of wood On Friday they were
found about eighty yards apart. Evil
IDENTIFY. they had freed their cattle and then
gone on, installing their way. Both We're
thinly clad. The boys arms were crossed,
as if he had tried TO keep his buttonless
oyercoat closed. The faithful dog was
found beside his dead master. A widow is
left destitute with four children, the eldest
only seven years old.
Near Madelia, man unhitched his team
and went 10 search for a house, leaving his
wife in the sleigh. She became anxious,
and followed him. Both were frozen to
death.
\ Mr. Tremis. his son and his sons wife,
started from Fergus Falls for Elizabeth.
Becoming Locked in drift, the men took
the mules and went for assistance, leaving
the woman in the sleigh. Father and son
were frozen To death. and the woman can
not recover.
\ couple Just married were on their way
home. to LemarS, when the storm overlook
them They turned the horse, loose and
overSet the sleigh. then crawled under 1t
and wrapped themselves in the robes. Ii
was strange bridal rsom, the box Of
sleigh in a drift out on the prairie, but they
passed two days and two nights there, and
were finally rescued alive, though badly
frozen.
Near Correctionyile John Sparks and
Joseph Sanders went out 10 get some wood
at a distance Of four miles. The storm
caught them, but they pushed on. When
mile and a half from home they threw out
their load 10 20 on more quickly, but Just
beyond the road made a curve; they passed
this curve without turning, and So every
step afterwards was a step away from home.
At night they camped under the sleigh,
about three miles from home. \ trapper
heard their shouts, but thought them but
the hooting of owls All day Wednesday,
Wednesday night and Thursday the men
were alive and wandering up and down, be-
wildered by the terrible storm. The trapper
followed them all DAY "Wednesday, but
could not find them. On Thursday night
their horse came home and following back
his tracks they found the two men seven
miles away. about two feet apart, frozen
stark and stiff The dog which had accom-
panied them remained with the bodies, and
had kept them from being covered by the
snow Eachman left widow and children,
the latter all Young. Sander, family Is
destitute The aged mother and sister of
Sparks have gone mad. and will probably
die
Such are few OF the -,ore4 Of instances
reported.
TnE EVENING SrARs.-Ihe TWO largest
and brightc-; of the planet- are now per
forming the Office of the evening stars,
Venus reigning supreme in the west for
three hours after sunset, and Jupiter beam
ing with imperial light iron,his appearance
in the east in the early evening till he pales
in the rudy glow of morning. They are
the only planets now visible to the naked
eye in the evening. and are easily diStin-
gui,hel from the lesser stars by their bright
ness and superior size The astronomer of
the Boston Journa' gives Us the following
information concerning the planet Jupiter,
which, being fourteen hundred times a large
as the earth. is an orb Of soma account
The giant member of the planetary broth
erhood presents three distinct branches of
astronomical study in the telescope, pho
tOmetrlc, and ~pecIro~cOpic departments of
science The telescope reveals exquisitely
beautiful bands or belts. covering its disc
immense riffs of openings in these bands, |
and gigantic disturbances around its huge |
circumference, on scaleof which terrestrial |
movements give Us little idea. and also a |
sight of the four moons which reyolye |
around it, The photometer measures its |
light. and proves that it gives far more light |
thar the other planets would under the same |
conditions. calculating the proportion as
three times that of Mars and four times that |
of the moon 1t also shows the comparative |
brilliancy OF the planet from the apparent |
blackneSs of the satellites a they transit |
its disc The Spectroscope yields its evidence |
with much more difficulty, for As the planet |
shines principally by reflected light, its spec
trum is not 50 bright As that of a star of the |
second magnitude, and the iaintneSs of the
lines in the Jovian spectrum makes them
difficult to interpret. Aqueous yapor is
plainly detected, and the best physicists,
Higgins, Secchi, Jansen and many others,
are patiently working to decipher the mean
ing of the above imperceptible lines which
are of such importance in the Interpretation
of the starry alphabet. All observations
strengthen the theory that the Joyian
planet gives out heat and some light from
its own mass; that it has not yet cooled
down to anything like the consistency of
our globe and that it acts as a subordinate
sun II the four satellites that revolve around
it, and form with it a solar system in