The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1892-12-12
UNITED AT THE LAST.
PlTiFUL TALE OF AN EMlGRANT
FAMILY THAT PERlSHED.
The Terrible Blizzard of 1881 Had FOR
Some of Its Victims Whole Family
Which Froze to Death in Dead Mans
Cove-Eeroic Efforts of IA Mother.


Joat eyes sal'l me 81" man rs he loiii-
ed Ia Il recess OF nan an acre IN extent
III the southern iace OF the Little Roeky
mountains mai Dead Man 5 cove.
anu Nea KIN see the IRON work 81 ihe
wagon lynn about when ye al closer,
" men l 1ifst looked IN mere thar was
I'VE human bodies lying dead III taat
Wa4oh' NE an my para we an@ d2
grave ana u,uled en- an together baek
aslh that ciiH' Ilaf Whar the rocks Is.
We pied me rocks that WAY 50 the
wolves couidh GIT at the dead.
but there Is no headhoard - no
nafheS' ! protested as rode closer To
the spol pointed out
1oiiidh be no names, cause WE
eeulah [ hha any he replied, and them
rocks Is a graVestun as Will last forever.
we II gu OIL ana slt down fur smoke.
ana II Sli No me i'lII ptrucklefs. We
pissed mere hundred ms III the last
three years and 1t aI.us giN"s me the
heartache. Poor nus oand-poor wife
poor cillldreh'
II WAS TINS way ne continued aftef
MS pipe was ahSht' Me ana para haa
our shallS down the valley aponf
h1ie. Plenty OF elllSfal.tS III the XIV
cred wagons USED To come by THIS tf,al
ana turn sonth INTO Noihlh' or Keep
Ness mo i""u"' me! conn I'VE OF
SIX fannie at a time, ana they'd come
singly. Some OF en- would take sleh
chances ot lnJuns, sickness. landshdes.
starvashun and death As would make
Your ha r stand ON end to think Of NJ
man KIN begin to guess how many graves
thar be OF men, women ana children be
branch oil the Missouri aNef I've
counted hundred III days ride.
WAL, one December mornin me and
pard woke up to feel that thar was ii
ollzZafd maxim ready TO bust on Us. 1t
had been coollsh but pleasant up To that
time. we could tell by the feel OF Things
what was CONN., ana began To GIT ready
fur 1t. 1t was Jest arter noon when ii
woman walked INTO our shanty, She
was an emlgrant. hight here III this
cove she had left her husband and four
children TO try ana ma some help. lie
had BIN SICK FUR three weeks and was
little better than dead man, and She
had BIN dnvln the team an takln keer OF
Things geher ~. she orter to heV turned
back long before, but some fool of
doctor had tod the man he get well II
they kept ON.
lhey hau gov separated from the
party they started WIN ana had lnade
the lasl iiuiureu ilil!es alone lh'S
war oue Srup' iauh / lllateh leit 10
oiiiia II hIt' ana lhe Noiliai showed ii
elahSe iur tle WuSS WIS plo"lh up
one WIS " lr'il' leetie Woillah' ana sile
haa gone 'lirooSh WIN nun - aoWii Il
man pal she hadi losV an hef piaek
!lt' AS soon as she 'ol.l Us me story we
tot ,edea " 20 paVN WIN iei an pii"S
III me oulll'' we lna'ie start oat we
never Sol luai'
ne pilH@aiu pieNeh'eu' en-
'9ile aIo' she came SWoopli GOWN '.iI
oil sua'eh' IKE some great oli, "roPplh
rom the shy y me snow n%Saii 10
ldlI' Tue WIN S'ii ca I'7"' III 10 DION d
nv s"le' anu / "'ll'No '''e 'neIliieth
.lgi "ti'l ON fp "c50' '''Ne ~ ~ ~
ptioN lilsi''to ~ nan an i'oui' T. mum
"hY WIN US ,.'V 'iie cil"nSe Wa su'''eh
"ii aiii''Ain' ~" 'T''i'i' i''e 'li''' 7'i9
TO save your me IL jest stopped lis 'iia
turned us ''ro''il" hoiVre we ma Soi III
Teen iou9 iIolil inc l"''Se' a. To 'iie
col,'' 1t jest i''l"iS %c'' ""' we i1a u
go pack' ana ar'er 1akih Il big drink o
WHISKY ail around ana put'!h on more
clothes we tired II agln.
Me ana sam was rs tough us b ans
them days ana could new lald down III a