The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-02-22
Home OF the BIizzard.

At Galena. Idaho 50 far this season, the snow has
been about 30 feet.
lee twenty feet thick in the Straits of Maeknae is
being blasted ont with dynamite.
Frederick King a wager the other day. by
walking in deep from Hudson to Clayton,
Michigan and back. distance of thirteen miles in
two hours
In walking from his house to his barn near by,
the other night. Maron Smith. of Stenrns County,
hinn was so badly frozen that he will be cripple
for life.
Mrs Wallace a widow with six children, is sup
posed to have Perished with her family, some twen-
ty miles north of Denver recently. When last seen
she was driving in n prairie schooner near Coal
creek. She may have found "A house, however.
Several large iccles fell from the the roof
on the Aborn House at Des Moines, the other day.
on the window lights the court. and broke
through, falling with great crash the tile floor.
There was stampede among the lobby loungers.
Three commercial travellers, two in the grocery
and one in the drug line; from winnepeg. were
caught in a blizzard while driving across prairie.
and could not escape from it. They put up for day
and night in friendly haystack, and consumed
all their supplies.
Here il n Specimen item from the Winnipeg Man
itOba. papers: AT the general hospital. James Wy
lie, who was brought in from Selkirk "A few days
ago. with his hands badly Frozen has had of the
members amputated at the wrist in addition TO all
the fingers Of the other.
A Norwegian was frozen to death in the Yellow
Medicine country, between Nontevideo and Granite
Falls MINI. the other night. The 60
team found at a neighbors four miles FROM
home. with his body frozen stiff in the wagon box.
Writing from American Falls. Idaho, to the Salt
Lake Tribune of January esth correspondent tells
Of one railway hand who 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 solid with ice.
At Virginia City. New. during gale not long ago.
n sheet of tin roofing, eight yards long by three
yards wide was blown from the roof of the Gonld
& Curry works. The roof struck John Wilson, a
stranger in the city. knocking him down and cut
ting his right foot nearly off The section of roof.
ing weighed over half a ton.
letter from Snmmerviile in Eastern Oregon. to
the Walla Wala Statesman says: When the mail
carrier came in from Weston. | learned that he
passed, four and half miles this side of Weston
Springs, a man breathing his last The night before
he stopped with Dick Fisher, and the next morning
resumed his journey, and evidently frOZe to death
in the Blue Mountains.
l Says the Saginaw tMch.l Herald: Twenty-Five
men came down from Doye's camp a day or two
since for the reason that they objected TO working
while trees and limbs were being blown down by n
high wind. The foreman said they must 90 TO
work take the tote road ani, as stated twenty
two Of them including all the choppers and savyers,
walked to the station.
4 Mrs. Ruger. who lives near the summit of Mount
Day. the highest peak north OF Mount Hamilton,
came near freezing to death on the mountain last
werk. She went in search of some cows and a snow
storm setting in became lost. She wandered about
all day and night and although search was made
she was not discovered until the following day
when she was found half starved and frozen.
Abel Smith, of Winnipeg. took two large snakes,
which he had found at Stony Mountain last Satur-
day. 10 that city. They frozen stiff, and re-
sembled long. colored rods. He kept them wrapped
in "a cloth al Mr. McLellans house. Several hours
after Mrs Mcclellan had occasion to visit the room
where the snakes had been left and she horri-
fed TO see the cloth moving. She did rot know
what it cantained. In her alarm she called her hus
hand, who WAS also too much afraid TO venture into
the room. When Hr. Smith returned he at once
surmiSed the cause of the alarm, and removing the
cloth he discovered that the snakes under the iniiu
ence of heat had come to life.