The Osceola times., 1883-03-17
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At Galena, idaho, so far this season the
snowfall has been about 10 feet
Ice twenty feet thick in the Straits Of
Mackinac is being blasted ont with dyna.
mite.
Frederick King won a wager the ether
dayby walking in deep snow from Hud-
son TO Clayton, Mich, and back, thirteen
miles, in two hours.
Mrs. Wallace, widow with six chill
dren, is supposed 10 have pcrished with
her family some twenty miles north OF
Denver recently. When last seen she
was driving in prairie schooner near
Coal creek. She may have found house,
however
Several large iciclcs fell from the cone
of the roof on the Aborn House at Des
Moines the other day on the window
lights over the court, and broke through,
falling with great crash upon the tile
floor. There was stampede among the
lobby loungers.
Three commercial travellers, two in the
grocery and one in the drug line, from
Winnepip, were caught in a blizzard
while driving across q prairie, and could
not escape FROM il. They put up for a
day and a night in a friendly haystack
and consumed all their supplies.
Here is a specimen itom from the Win
nipeg, Manitoba, papers: AT the gem
eral hospital James Wylie, who was
brought in from Selkirk few days ago
with his hands badly frozen, has had one
of the members amputated mt the wrist,
in addition to all the fingers of the 9TH
err"
A Norwegian was frozen to death in
yellow Medicine county, between Mon
tcvidco and Granite Falls, Mimi, the
other night. The man was going home
and, il is presumed, lost his way, rs his
team, was found at neighbor's four
miles from home with his body frozen
stiffin the wagon box.
Writing from American Falls, Idaho,
to the Salt Lake Tribune of January 20,
q correspondent tells Of one railway hand
who was frozen to death and of many
others who have lost the Use of their
legs. The locomotives on the Oregon
Short Line cannot get water out of the
tanks, which are solid with ice.
At Virginia City, New, during gale
not long ago, a sheet of tin roofing, eight
wards long by three yards wide, was
blown from the roof of the Gould q Cur
ry works. The roof struck John Wilson,
stranger in the city, knocking him
down and cutting his right foot nearly
off. The section of roofing weighed over
half ton.
Says the Saginaw (Mich.) Herald /:
Twenty-Five men came down from Doylc's
camp day or two since for the reason
and limbs were being blown down by a
high wind. The foreman said they must
"go TO work or take the tote rsad,' and,
as stated, twenty-five of them, including
all the choppers and sawyers, walked out
to the station.
A Mrs. Ruger, why lives near the sum-
init of ofMount Day, the highest peak north
of Mount Hamilton, came near freezing
to death on the mountain recently. She
went in search of some cows and, snow
storm setting in, became lost. She wan
dered about all day and night, and al
though search was made she was not
discovered until the following day, when
she found half-starved and frozen.
Able Smith, of Winnipeg, took two
large snakes, which he found at Stony
Mountain recently, TO that city. They
were frozen stiff and rescmbled long, col.
o-ed rods. He kept them wrapped in a
cloth at Mr.. Mclellan's house. Several
hoars after Mrs. Mcclellan had occasion
to visit the room where the snakes had
been left and she was Mortified to SCI
the cloth moving. She did not know
what il contained. In her alarm, she
called her husband, who was also toe
much afraid to venture into the room
When Mr. Smith returned he at once
surmised the cause If the alarm and re
moving the cloth he discovered that the
snakes under the influence of the heat
had come 30 life.