Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-01-23
FROZEN TO DEATH.


week. In such a storm it would have
been purify accidental had not some
benighted traveller been caught out and
lost. To a traveller on that dreadful
! Wednesday night. it was to come upon
a house, or wander simiessly in the
binding snow storm and freeze. To
/ find a house, even by one well aequaint-
ed with the country, was well nigh i'm
possible, as is eVinced by the case Of
Samuel StewardsOn. There is perhaps
a house on each section, mostly low and
of sod, in the north part of the county
but to find that house was the secret.
The houses. too, were covered with
snow, and one could not discern them
hardly in broad daylight.
ISAAC GRIFFITH.
News came to Colby on Friday of the
disappearance of the above named gen
tleman., His home was near Otter.
bourne. He had been 10 town on We'd
nesday, returning just before night;
was at the house of Thomas Trump
| just one mile from his home, before the
storm, leaving when the storm had
7 scarcely commenced. On Thursday the
storm continued all day, and on Friday
/ the neighbors turned out in force to
search for him. His wagon was track
ed to within one hundred yards Of his
house, where the mules made several
! circles, and then drifted south with the
storm. On Saturday the wagon was
discovered within forty rods of the resi-
denee Of MIR. Harris, and about three
miles from his home, and in the wagon
was found Mr. Griffith dead. He had
lOosened his team evidently intending
to try to keep up until daylight. When
found his head and body were out Of the
wagon, while his frozen limbs caught
on the side boards and kept his body
from falling to the ground. On Satur-
day night the body was taken to the
residence of his mother. Squire Archer
summoned a jury, the verdict beng
''Frozen to death in the storm of Jan
uary 9TH -
Mr.. Griffith was a man OF about 40
years Of age, a disabled Union soldier,
industrious, and strictly temperate, and
well thought of by all his neighbors
He leaves a wife, mother, and five chill
dren. Funeral services took place on
Monday at the residence of the mother
Of the deceased.
ALFRED AND FRED GOULD.
These two boys, aged Il aud 10,
with their mother, had came from Ober-
lin in a wagon. bringing their household
goods, their destination being their
fathers claim in the western part Of the
county. On Wednesday morning they
left Colby, arriving at the residence OF
j. d. Hughs, twelve miles west, before
the storm commenced. Here they de-
eided to stay for the night, putting up
their team, and eating supper After
supper the boys decided 10 walk 10 the
claim. a distance of four miles, to spend
the night with their father, taking with
them a lantern They went IN the
direction of the claim, but the storm be- /
ing 50 severe, turned them and they 7.
went with the storm, leaving their Ian /
house. On Friday searching parties !
were sens out, but the search developed (
nothing until Sunday at IL O'Clock, +
when the bodies were discovered by I
Sheriff KiDgery, about four miles south I
of their fathers claim. A jury was
summoned and the verdict was Frozen /
to death -
The boys were the main support of
their parents, and it leaves them in hard /
circumstances, the father having been /
an invalid for several years. They /
were known as hard working and hon
est boys, and the manner of their death, /
SO sudden, and they not yet IN the prime /
of life, makes one of the saddest of sad /
cases. The remains of both we're in !
TERED in one grave GA Monday.
SAMUEL sTEWARDsON MISSING.
Mr.. Stewardson had been in Colby, (
and on Wednesday night ne started for
his home nine miles east on horseback. I
He stopped at the residence of A. B.
Jardine, three miles east, and that was /
the last seen Of him. The eastern por-
ton Of the county was aroused. and I
search commenced on Friday and has
continued up to the present date with 4
out any result HIS horse was found on /
the South Solomon, near Nathan Byars', +
with the bride tied TO the tree OF the /
saddle as also she place found where
he had turned the horse loose and his
tracks were found, evidently bent in the
direction of home, hut she tracks were
Iostin e gulch. There is hardly a ques-
ton Of doubt but what he has perished
and IS eoreEaE Win snor1.