Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-02-06

lifeless bodies. The elder one ha0
given baby sister almost her entire
clothing, being herself nearly naked
A young lad of sixteen was sent to
the school-house in one district TIC
bring home with the team his employ
ers two children. After leaving the
school-house the mules refused to be
driven, whereupon the young man
Jumped out, unhitched them from the
wagon, thinking they'd find shelter
for themselves, turned the wagon
box bottom up with the two children
bundled up underneath, and banked
the rude shelter all over with snow,
standing guard himself outside. Next
day, when found, he was frozen stiff,
and ten rods away one mule was also
dead, and the other was found alive
at a neighbours. In another instance
young lady, starting for her uncle S
home where she was stopping, was
lost and wandered about thoroughly
bewildered. She at last ran against
a hay-stack. Knowing that her life
depended upon securing shelter, she
began pulling out hay and making a
cave for herself within the stack. Into
this excavation she crowded, closing
up the mouth as best she could. 1t
was cosy corner, and with a sense
of security she fell asleep. When
she awoke the snow had packed the
entrance so solidly that with the ut
most eXertion it was impossible to
force her way out, the cramped posi-
ton not permitting the fullest use of
strength, and so the couch became
prison. Then she screamed, hoping
by some means to make herself heard.
Thus time passed, now vainly endeav-
oring to dig out, and then hallooing
at the top of her voice. Exhaustion
followed quickly, and she felt the
prison was to prove a grave. Out
side, her friends had searched two
days for some trace of her and given
up, thinking they must wait for the
drifts of snow to melt before they
could hope to recover the body. The
third day the uncle started for his
meadow to get hay. A dozen stacks
were there. He drove to one and
began to dig away snow. He soon
discovered a lady's foot, and hurried
~ pulling off the loose hay, saw the
apparently lifeless body of his niece.
Three days without food, she yet
lived, and is now well, but not anx-
ious to repeat the experience.
These are but few of the instances
which occurred all over this north
west, and as | said, the whole will
never be known. The entire affair
seems to us like awakening from a
terrible dream. Right here, with ev-
cry narrowing instance before our
eyes, we only half realize that it was
all true. About three hundred deaths
are known, it is thought, but about
half are so certain as to be reported.
You see, constantly, new develop
ments are coming to light; some,
thought to be fatally frozen and lost,
are being discovered safe in some
farmers dwelling, where they had
found refuge. Roads are just getting
opened so that communication be-
tween neighbors is possible, and our
worst fears are confirmed or hope
gives place to glad reality.
There are some lessons this ought
to teach us, only we are so slow to
learn. We never do get ready for
emergencies out here until the emer-
gency is upon us. Do they anywhere?
Surely with us, in this case, "suffi-
cient unto the day is the evil thereof"
And surely, too, the average YER
monter ought, in view of our latest,
to be perfectly willing to sit down by
his own fire of rock maple with mer-
curry frozen at 40 degrees minus, land
let any western fever that may be
lurking in his veins CONCEAL, and be
contented and happy that he has
escaped any fatal termination of the
malady.