Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-01-23
FROZEN TO DEATH.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE or TWO
COUSINS IN THE AlLEchANlES.
Caught by the Storm u Saturday. 18th
A struggle That Mesnt Life or
Death-Compsniou Abandoned.

MONTERREY, VA, January 0--tSpe-
c,aI.)-Two more fatalities are added to
the already long list Of tragic deaths In
Pendieton county. w. Va. during the
last few months.
pig Run is a settlement twenty miles
northwest OF Monterey. and so remote
and-ssecluded that your correspondent
has with difficulty obtained the following
particulars OF the sad and untimely fate
Of two cousins named Arbogast. but
whose full names could not learn. They
had gone 10 Allegheny mountain with
supplies sufficient for a weeks hunt. and
were caught by the cold wave and storm
which swept over the country . Few
DAYS ago. One IL dead and the other
is so badly frozen that II 1t were posi-
BILE for him to live II would be ne
cessary to amputate his arms and lower
limbs.
The story, as told by the surviving man.
Is one of an awful experience and untold
suffering. He and his companion mad
gone into camp on the evening OF FRI
day. 18th, and the following day found
the trail of a deer. which led them some
miles from camp before overtaking II.
OvERTAKEN BY THE STORM.
They succeeded In bagging the game.
and started with 1t on the return trip to
camp, greatly fatgued by their long
tramp through eighteen inches OF snow.
However, fair progress was made unul
overtaken by the storm OF wind and
SLOW, which made the afternoon OF Sat
urday Q2th a memorable one. While yet
several miles from camp, and at the
mercy Of the gale, night coming on, ac-
companied by rapidly falling temperature,
benumbed by cold. and worn out, they
threw the deer aside. and began Inc
UNEQUAL battle which they now for the
first time realized meant lire or ueath'
Thus they struggled on. until one OF them,
overcome by the cold, sank exhausted
in the snow at the feet Of his COM
panion. who. although himself more dead
than alive. lifted him and tried TO lead
him on. finally dragging him through the
snow by the arms, being unable longer
to carry him.
TO HIS FATE.
In telling Of his experience Mr. Arbo-
CAST said he thinks II was about mid
night when he found that ne must ieave
his friend to his fate or perish with
him. Pulling him to tree, he placed
him in n sitting posture against H. ana
turned away to make last enort 10
save his own life. He finally reached
camp and succeeded in kindling hre,
but was so badly frozen that In snort
time he became helpless and was unable
to replenish 1t.
How he managed to live until friends
found him the following Monday he can
not tell.
FOUND DEAD.
To those who came to his relief he
told as nearly as he could where he had
left his companion, and search FOR the
unfortunate man was begun. who was
found within a half mile OF camp. sittins
against a tree. having died just as his
friend had left him.
The dead man leaves wife and flve
small children; the one yet living also
has a family consisting OF wife ana
three children.
DIED WITH HIS MASTER.
Bv the side of the dead man lay his
faithful dog, frozen and dead, having sac
riGced his own life in long vigil over
the form of its dead master.
What word can express the depth or