The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-21
a Pltlful Tele Of the Far west.

- 16l6 the Far WeSCs
That's Dead Mans Cove right before your
eyes, said the old man as he pointed TO a re-
cess Of half an acre in extent in the southern
face Of the Little Rocky mountains. according
TO New York Herald writer That's Dead
Mans Cove, and you kin see the iron work of
the wagon lyin about when you git clos
] When first looked in here thar was five hu-
/ man bodies lying dead In that wagon. Ne snd
| my pard we dug big grave ana buried 'em all
to9ether back agin' that cliff, there whar' the
rocks is We piled the rocks that way so the
/ wolves couldn't git at the dead. "
But there is no headboards-no Names"
protested as rode closer to the spot pointed
/ out.
Couldn't be no names, cause we couldn't
find any" he replied, land them rocks is a
gravestun' as viii last forever Wen get off
and SIT down for smoke and I'll gin ye the full
| partIcklers. I've passed here q hundred times
IN the last three years, and il alus gives me the
children!
st was this way. he continued after his pipe
was alight. Me and pard had our shanty
down the valley about mile Plenty of emil
grants in their kivered wagons used TO come by
this trail and turn south into Wyoming. or keep
west into Idaho. They'd come five or SIX famI-
LEG at a time and they come singly. Some of
EN- would take SIGH chances of Injuns, sickness,
landslides, starYashun and death as would make
your har stand on end to think of. No man
kin begin to guess how many graves thar be of
men, women ana children between the Dakota
line and the west branch of the Missouri river.
a =
Wall, one December mornin' me and pard
woke up to feel that thar was blizzard maxim
ready to bust on US. 1t had been coolsh, but
pleasant up to that time. We could tell by the
feel OF things what was comm, and began TO git
ready fur 1t. 1t was jest after noon when a wo-
man walked into our shanty. She was an en-
igrant. Right here in this cove she had left her
husband and four children to try and find some
help. He rad bin sick for three weeks and was
little better than a dead man, and she had bin
drivin the team an takin' keer of things gen.
AkaEa haul
but some fool of doctor had told the man he'd
get well if they kept on. They had got sepa-
rated from the party they started with and had
made the last 100 miles alone. They war out O.
grub, hadn't match left to build fire. and
the woman knowed q change for the wuss was
BLOWN up. She was frail, leetle woman, and
she had gone through with huff to down man,
but she hadn't lost all her pluck yit. AS soon
as she told us the story we got ready to go back
with her an bring in the outfit. We made a
start, but we never got thar. "
The blizzard prevented, eh?"
she did. She came swoopin' down all of
sudden, like some great bird droppiE' from the
SKY. fine snow begun to fall the wind started
right in to blow Twin gale, and | believe the
thermometer went from 45o above to 100 below
inside of half an hour. We hadn't any with U.s.
but the change was so sudden an amazin'. You
couldn't face that gale to- save your
around before we had got fifteen rods
from the house. AS to tGe cold, it
Jest paralyzed you. We had to go back, and
and putin on more clothes we tried it agin
Me and sam was tough as bars them DAYS ana
could hev laid down in pond of water and let
1t freeze up with us, but we couldn't buck agin
that blizzard. When we made the second start
we got about half way up here the little woman
leadln' the way all the time. Then we had to
stop. You couldn't see three sfoot from your
nose, and all of us was freezin' to death by
inches.
"And you went back?"
I'VE did. The woman was determined to
I = IN and IVA TnaF had al
carry her back, 1t was only by the Lords haud
pintin' the way that we ever reached our cabin
| agin. We had our ears, noses and fingers friz
and an hour arUer we got back water frozs solid
| in our cabin within five foot Of a roarin' fire
The woman prayed to God and appealed to u.s.
but we knowed it was no use. That was the biz
Zard OF 1884, and I've heard men say it was 200
below zero in this valley that night 1t frz 81 900
head Of cattle to death in the Gallstin valley TO
the west, and the ice on the Missouri river WAS
solid from top 10 bottom. See that rock split
in halfY Wall, the cold did that at that time
We had lots of wood ami a big fire, but il was
| clus shave that we didn't freq to death The
| woman got nipped wuss than we did but her
| mind was on the family back here. She was
| bound to come back alone, but we stood her off
till about dark. Then she made a bolt fur it
and got away"
And went to her deaths"
Jest es SarCn as il she had Jumped of that
| cliff. The blizzard Shet us in fur thres DAYS
| When we got out we found her within twenty
/ rods of the cabin She had friZ to death goii'
| that fur. or course we knowed how it would be
| up here. The horses had been unhitched and
! turned out. They lay over by that tree. The
| folks in the wagon had crowded together and
tivered up with all the blankets, but all war stun
! dead and as hard as rocks. They never saw that
i rust night come down. Me and my pard over
| hauled the wagon, but We couldn't find any
| shin givin' the name of the family, and So like
/ hundreds Of others out in this kentry OF mount
| ain and ivalley, Iniun and wolf, we kivered EN-
| in to sleep till the Lord gifts ready 70 call EN-
| for judgment. Seems awful that hull family
| should be wiped out that way; but they ar
| sleepin thar together, and guess the Lord IL
know the spot even if thar is no gravestun to
| mark it,