The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-20
STORM CASUALTIES.
The Frightful Experience Of
Mrs. Asa Dodd.
Young Walter Munger Found
Frozen to Death.

Young Lowry, brother of Mrs.
asa Dodd, of Rome township, came in
on the snow plow Sunday, and gave
the following account of her frightful
experience in the storm Of last Thurs
day:
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Dodd with their
six year old daughter spent Wednesday
night at the home of Mrs. Dodd's par
ents. the Lowrys, which is about three
fourths of mile from their own house
Thursday morning Mr.. Dodd went
home to do the chores and start the
fires so that the house would be com
Portable before he brought his wife
and child over. He then returned to
Lowry's and with his family in one of
those home made sleds, started back
about noon, intending to get dinner at
home. They had gone part of the
short distance between the two places
when the storm struck them in all it's
fury. They were utterly bewildered,
OF course, and after struggling in vain
to reach their house until their horses
gave out, Mr. Dodd took off his fur
coat, wrapped his wife and child in it
and the robes as comfortably as posi-
lble, directed them to remain perfectly
quiet, and, turning his horses loose,
started for the house.
He took the wrong direction, how
ever, and after bu1feLing the elements,
he does not know how long, he found
himself near the Blaclman house. two
miles southwest of his. Here he found
the hired man who volunteered to go
with him, in aid of the lost ones. and
the two started out anew in the direc-
tlon of the place where he had left his
family. They wandered aimlessly over
The prairie, and as night came on were
forced to give up the search. In their
struggle toward shelter, they got sight
OF light apparently q long distance
ahead of them, and started toward it..
They iloundered through one big dnft
and were surprised to find themselves
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from which the light was shining.
They stopped here until day light. aud
then renewed their search, finding the
sled with its almost perislllng uccu-
pants about O'Clock Friday morning
The feelings of the mother and lit
tie one during those seventeen hours of
exposure can better be imagined than
described, and cannot be thoroughly
understood until Mrs. Dodd RECEIVERS
from her prostration, ii she ever does.
The two were warmly bundled up, and
might have escaped severe injury but
for one fact. Toward morning Mrs.
Dodd became cramped from sitting SO
long in one position, and stretched her
limbs toward the front of the Sled box.
In SO doing She exposed her feet to the
cold without knowing it, and both of
them were badly frozen. The little
girl Jared better. her feet being sligh6-
ly frosted, but she was able to be
about the house on Saturday. Mrs.
Dodd was taken to q shanty near by at
once and her feet plunged into cold
water, and kept there until the frost
was thoroughly extracted. She was
then taken home and a physician tele
graphed for at this place, but no one
was able to go down until Monday
when DR., Parmelee took passage
on the Milwaukee SHOW plow. The he
roic action OF Mr. Dodd in giving uE
his overcoat and going forth INTO the
storm, taking his life in his hand. can
not be too highly praised. 1t is to be
too hoped that his wife's injuries may
not prove to be as serious as feared.