Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1881-01-14

Mrs. Kate Whitman, AID her two children,
was the last for which the kindly Offices OF a
rescue party Were performed. When an en-
trance to this house was finally effected, after
several hours labor, the unfortunate lady
and one of her children were found dead upon
II bed, frozen stiff One child afterward re-
viyed, and, although terribly frost-biiten,
will probably recover. The next Gay (Sun-
dayl meeting Of The villagers was held in
the schoOl-house, when it was resolved to APP
point committee of fifteen TO take charge of
all The wood and provisions in town, This
was ia order to economic fuel The number
OF sick and frozen became so great on Tues
day that the committee converted "a dwelling
house into II hospital, whittier ali the inva-
lids were removed and placed IN charge of a
body OF physicians. BY Tuesday evening the
number Of patients in various stages Of sick
ness, had reached seventy-ive, while others
were coming in hourly. The committee then
determined TO reduce rations and send a mes
sage to Berryville to ask that assistance lie
sent as soon as possible.
The relief party dispatched from Berryville,
Clark county, TO the snow-covered village oil
Paris, reached that place after an eXhausting
journey. One of their teams of four horses
got stuck in drift and had TO be Abandoned,
and during the long and bitter cold night they
travelled but four miles. The crust of the
snow was not strong enough to bear the
sleigh, which broke through repeatedly, COM
pelling the half-frozen men TO get out and
struggle through the drift on foot. Before
reaching the village second horse was aban-
dOne0. Finally, they got into the main street,
where not a sign of life was TO De seen, but
their shouts were followed by a man showing
his head from hole in the wall Of the school
house, twenty feet from the ground. The re-
lief party consisting of Il doctor and two
other men, were so exhausted that they had
to be themselves carried into one of the
houses. where a large fire was built in honor
of their arrival. The contents of the sleigh,
consisting Of medicine, soft linen for band
ages, canned fruits, preserved meats, wine
and liquors, proved an Invaluable addition TO
their little store. The doctor who formed one
of the relief party ut once went TO work in
the hospital, relieving The exhausted physi-
clan in charge, who, with nearly a hundred
cases 10 care for, had not been 10 bed for over
week. The stock Of the two grocery stores
had been seized, and the liquor Mr.. Wright
kept in his own house, where it was guarded
by himself or one of his sons, and dealt out
to those detailed TO make excursions TO the
surrounding country FOR game, of which they
found abundance that had frozen TO death
The villagers had at first attempted 10 cut
channels in the snow 10 allow passages from
one house to another, but during the night
would fill up, and at last that mode was
abandoned, and the snow was allowed TO ac-
cumulate around the houses, the roof or up
per windows being used as outlets. The
women and children had suffered much, though
they were lodged in the warmest houses and
supplied with extra clothing There are about
three hundred men, women and children that
have been thus buried up since the goth OF
December.