The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1880-01-15
Seven Men Frozen to Death !

FAMILY FROZEN WHILE ~AVELLIN HALF
A MILE.
On Christmas Day and New Years Day,
and all the days between, our windows
were open; people worked out doors in shirt
sleeves; and the atmosphere was delightful.
Mark the contrast North. East and "Out
West"
NEW YORK, December 3O.--A special
from Bismarck, ID. T.. says: Dave Hall.
John Gallagher, and a man called Missouri
were frozen to death on the Northern Pacific
railroad extension on the Gath. They were
walking in from the Sad Lands, and It IS
feared that many others hnce met the same
Jute. The thermometer has averaged fifteen
degrees below zero for two weeks. The
trains are blockaded, and all business on the
Northern Pacific Railroad is at a standstill.
The Fargo Republican has the following
particulars OF the freezing of a family in
that vicinity:
The name of the unfortunate man was
Carl Bellau, whS with his family had been
living in a board shanty of a n%eighbor. but
had built a house on his own place about
half a mile away, and commenced to move
on Saturday, hauling their household effects
on a hand sled, having strangely enough
left their stove until the last. They had |
almost reached the new house when the
woman was taken sick. Two little BOYS, |
aged one and a half and three and a half
years. were left In a dry goods box, wrap
ped IN a blanket, while the father assisted
his wife and the two other children to the
house and put them in bed, as there was no
fire IN the house and the children were
He then started out to bring in
the other children, td uhem fond he wos
yng frozen and dead beside the boz coutatn-
'ng the frozen bodies Of the little ones he had
given his life to save. Mrs. Bellau gave
birth to a child that night. but it died the
next day. She laid there without fire or
God until Monday noon, when by almost
exertion, she managed to crawl
the house OF the nearest %neighbor. Mr..
dage, nearly two miles away, where she
vas cared for. The boy is badly frozen,
nd will probably lose both hands and feet
f he lives.
On Christmas Eve, of all nights in the
ear. a little girl perishedin the cold and
storm on the Ohio river. twelve miles above
louisville. Her father started from the
Mead farm in a skiff with his two children.
Intending to give them a holiday in the
lty. The night was SO dark, the current
o rapid, and the drift wood SO thick,
hat he was afraid to go on, and after at
empting to row back landed on the KEN
uck shore and set out for his home. The
hlldren were lightly clad and soaking wet,
nd soon began to cry as if their hearts
'ould break. The boy bore up bravely,
nd the man struggled desperately to find
Is way. The rain turned to sleet and
now, and their clothes were frozen stiff
'hen they sought shelter in a deep ravine.
q the morning a house was discovered.
nd the little girl carried indoors, but it
'as too late to save her life. Her ewes
frightened when she first saw the fire. and
ne began to hum a little song, but in a few
she was dead.
The greatest cold seems to have been :
'lt IN Sllesla. A letter from Munich gives I
etalis OF that CHASTITY tragedy in the Rybine
orest-the death OF the gypsies. They T
ere found eleven men, women and chill
rem sitting round the embers of fires. all
Oxen stiff and stark. The modern Athens
SELF was the scene of a scarcely less appall-
g tragedy. A country milk cart stopped :
a shop as usual. The shopkeeper, when .
drlver did not make his appearance,
ent into the street and found the lad
oxen to death on his seat under the tilt
ome peasants, overtaken by a heavy snow
orm in the Italian Alps and obliged to
ke refuge in two huts, have been gallant
rescued by fifty of their fellows. who
two accents for that purpose. The
cond, in which only nine took part, had
be effected at night under great perils.
le two goat-heards improved in the hut
q made 1rultless attempts to force their
y through the snow, and an hour later
ey would probably have been dead. They
to be carried down, and on reaching
llberaters and liberated could not be
.'lntlnguished SO pale and exhausted were
of them.