The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-02-07

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Among the losses OF life reported
in consequence of the late terrific
storm are the following: Hon. H.
r. Wells, OF Preston, reports the loss
OF minister and family from Lims
Springs, Iowa, visiting in Fillmore
county. The minister, with his wife
and two children, undertook to reach
home, and when near home the
horses gave out, and he took one
child and made his way to the house,
but in returning TO the cutter, where
he had left his wife and remaining
child, he was lost, and was found the
next day frozen to death. His wife
and child left in the cutter were also
found dead, but the one taken to the
house was found alive. A man had
been seen hanging around a grove in
Fillmore county some days before
the storm. He was out during the
fearful storm of Tuesday night, but
was found and taken to the country
poor-farm, where both hands and feet
were amputated. He gives his name
as Lee, is delirious, and begs of
Sheriff Martin not to kill him. He
is supposed to be a criminal wanted
by Sheriff Martin, OF Winons county.
E. e. Payne, of Rochester, got
caugh. in the recent terrible storm
while riding in Dodge county, within
few miles of Kasson, and lay out
one whole day and two nights before
he could find q house. He says he
passed Mr.. Gaskill's before dark, ex-
pectiDg to make Mr.. fuckers about
a mile further south, but when about
half way was so blinded by the storm
that turned to take my back track
to Mr.. G's, which had just passed.
My only guide was the wind, and
that changed to west northwest,
without my knowledge or consent,
and after Wandering. perhaps or
hour, / put up Tor the night by turn.
ing my ponies loose and my cutter
up, and set me down to rest, within
twenty rods of Andrew ,Iohnson's
house. There / was all night, sing
ing, praying and working to keep
alive. At one time / struck my
hands three hundred times, and at
another kicked my feet five hundred
times. At length day dawned-but
no abatement of the storm. i could
not see two rods after digging out of
where was drifted under, and could
hardly stand, the wind blew so. /
was afraid TO leave, and returned to
my snowy nest and laid me down to
die, if it was Gods will. For hours
l stood the storm, shivering with
clothes wet and frozen. At last / re-
peated the verse:
al can but perish If go,
am resolved to try;
For If stay right here, know
shall most surely de-
81 started by holding on to the
fence until i found sled track, which
with difficulty followed to a graDary
and stable, but could not find a house.
/ stayed in the stable for hours, wait
ing tor some one to come, but in
vain, and again started out in search
Of house got lost and could not
find the stable again, until wandering
perhaps an hour | again struck the
track, which ! followed to the stable,
to find some one had been there and
fastened the only door As my only
alternative, / found an open shed and
siraw-stack, and made my bed amid
drifting snow, without any buffalo
robe, and spent another long, long
night. Thursday morning found me
alive, snd the sky somewhat clear; go
about 8 o'clock found = house with
in ten rods of where ] had been
several times the day previous on
every side OF it,