Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1895-02-18
PERISHED IN THE SNOW.
John Chew of Dayidsonvire. Lost in the

John Chew OF Davidsonvilie. Lost in the
storm
The Baltimore Sunday 4mcricaa
tell the following story of how one man
purished fIom cold in the great blizzard
Thursday, Feb. 9th, and the narrow es-
cape another which it says is told by
gentlemen from Brownsville, Anne
Arundel County, Md, who were i'm Bal
timore saturday. The victim of the
storm kings fury was John Chew,
farmer living near Davidsonville, in.
Anne Arundel, and his son was the one
who barely escaped the same terrible
fate. On the afternoon of that long-to-
be-rememhered Thursday. Mr.. Chew
and his twenty-year-old SON left An
napolis to go TO their home in spring
wag n. The bowling blizzard which
drove the fine particles of snow at the
rate of forty miles an hour, and the in
tense cold, made their progress slow,
and they were soon suffering acutely
from the cold. Mr.. Chew wls fraid
of freezing, and from time TO time be
got out of the spring wagon TO walk, in
order to keep the blood in circulat on.
His son would, on these occasions, drive
while he stumbled along in the road be-
hind through the fast forming snow
drifts, and IN the teeth of the. bowling
pitilese storm. The horse walked faster
than Mr.. Chew, who would get some
little distance behind, and then his son
would stop and wait until he caug { up.
Finally, he stopped and waited the usual
time, but his father did not appear. He
Matted five, ten, fifteen minutes, a half
hour, and still his father did not appear.
He peered backward through the dark
ness and snow-laden air. and called to
his fat ther-called and called again-but
his voice was lost in the roar of the
blizzard.
What should he do? lie felt himself
freezing and unable to 90 back alone,
knowing he too would become exhaust
ed and drop into the snowdrifts to sleep
his las sleep. He decided that he had
better try to push along to the next
house and get help to go and search for
his father. He whipped up the horse
and drove on short distance, but the
big drifts Of snow had been forming in
the meanwhile, and all at once he saw
his horse founder in a drift and fall.
Finding the horse could not extricate
himself, and knowing that in his frozen
condition he could not, the son left
horse and wagon in the drift and Stun
bled on in last desperate fight for life.
After seemingly interminable time
he spied light, and he took courage
and stumbled on. lie reached the door
and fell in almost unconscious. For
hours he could give no account of him
self, and could not tell the story of his
fathers loss, so frozen were nis lips, and
SO benumbed his brain. When finally
he told the story, a search party was or
ganized and started out. The horse and
wagon were found buried under huge
drift, only part of the horse 5 head
prOtruding, but no traces OF Mr.. Chew.
Repeated searches have since been made
for his body, but unsuccessfully. 1t Is
supposed that he wandered from the
road, and lies buried under some drift.
The son was so badly frozen that his
ears will have to be amputated, also his
to, S, and perhaps, his feet.
Walked Seventeen Miles Through snow
Mr.. Samuel ID. Crandell, who lives
near Galesville, West River, had simi-
lar experience TO that of Mr.. Chew
He and his wife came to Annapolis on
Wednesday, the day before the blizzard,
and took the train for Baltimore, with
the intention of returning the next day
when the son was to meet them in
Annapolis. Mr.. Crandell started for
Annapolis, and WAS OH the snow-bound
train and did not reach here for
five hours. lie left only two children
ut home, and feeling uneasy as to their
condition, after being snow-bound here
for two days, he started out OH Sunday
morning to walk to his home, a distance
of seventeen miles from Annapolis. 1t
was a perilous undertaking, but the love
he bore for his children impelled him to
undertake the task. After some ten
hours and more battling with the heavy
snow-drifts, in which lie almost dispair-
ed and fell exhausted, but regainlng bis
strength, renewed his steps, and finally
succeeded in reaching his home, almost
perished and badly frost-bitten. Mr..
Craudell says on several occasions he
got in such drifts that he thought he
would have to give up, but he made a
desperate struggle to get out and finally
succeeded, but perfectly exhausted. He
says he never had such experience in all
his life and that it was only due to his
indomitable courage, and great physi-
cal strength and the love he bore for his
wife and children. that he ever succeed
ed. lie says he never was SO near per.
ishing in all his life, and hopes never to
have such an experience again.
The axnosure tn all aorfa and condi