Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-25
IN ICE KINGS GRASP
Intense Cold in New York Re-
suits in Four Deaths.
RAGGED GIRL Is FROZEN
Totters to Church and Falls Helpless
On Steps.
BOY OVERCOME IN MARSH
Evidence Found of His Frantic Fight
for Life-Aged Woman in
.-z- Starving Condition.
RAGGED GIRL is FROZEN
BOY OVERCOME IN MARSH

NEW YORK, December 25.-The worst
cold OF the winter, marrow-freezing
in intensity, was driven upon New York
yesterday by bitter northwest wind,
bringing a Yuletide death to four persons
and overcoming six others in it's grip
The thermometers registering the city's
keen experience of old-fashioned Christ
me weather almost dropped to the zero
mark, the mercury stopping at degrees
above at am, and rising only slowly
during the day.
The nip in the air. turning the blood
cold. -oe a person ventured into the omen.
ana selZing upon noses and fingers and
toes had far more disastrous effect upon
those poorly nourished and exposed to the
full blast of the wind. Many were unable
to withstand the fearful cod and sue
cumbed.
or all tragedies, a little girl of fifteen
years. dying in the Kings County Hospital,
Brooklyn, from exposure, seems most
pathetic. The child fell insensible at the
threshold of the Union Church of Christ,
on Linwood street where she had tot
tered from in front of nearby toy shop.
Ragged Girl Frozen.
Few in the throng of shoppers through
which the child had passed noticed her
pathetic condition. She was clad onlv in
short frock of f1imsy summer material
that fell scarcely to her knees. Her low
shoes were torn and the bare toes and
heels protrduded through the tattered
leather and through great rents in the
stockings. AS woman appeared the girl
fell forward on the payement-a 1itt1e
frozen bundle of rags. The woman picked
up the unconscious child and carried her
to her home, laying her before a bIazine
log fire. policeman followed the
woman. and when he saw the pitiful con-
dition Of the child summoned an ambu.
lance and the child was taken to a hos.
p1tal. Restoratives We're forced down her
throat. The child became half conscious
but could return no answer to the many
INQUIRIES OF the doctors and nurses. She
murmured only one word, Jennie" before
she relapsed into Inconsistencies and be-
gan to sink into the sleep Of death.
Boy Stiff in Swamp.
One of the most pitiful cases revealed
was that of a boy, whose body, frozen
stiff, was found yesterday in a marsh
stretching from Classen Point on the
sound. back of West Farms road The up-
rooted reeds near where the body was
found gave evidence Of the frantic but vain
efforts he had made to drag himself to
safety.
The Roman Catholic rectory is near
WHCI0 Tic UOuy WAS IOun0. His foot
prints, traced through the marsh, showed
how, benumbed by the cold, he had fallen
to his hands and knees and attempted to
crawl to. dry ground. His pitiful cries, as
he slowly succumbed to the bitter cold
were mistaken for the wind blowing
through the marsh
Later the body of the boy was identified
by a Mr.. Jeanchen as that Of his SON. He
told the police that he. his wife, Esther
and two daughters had been searching ali
day Sunday and Sunday night without sue
cess and until they heard from the police
there was no trace discernible. The bow
had wandered three miles away from home
before he reached the morass known as
Washington Meadows, where he met his
death.
Two Aged Victims.
Other victims Of the cold were Mrs
Helen Stacey. sixty years old, who was
picked up in starving condition; Will
liam Reilly. twenty-six years old. who had
his hands and arms frozen,
Silas Underhill, an attendant in the SUI
preme court of Brooklyn. sixty-five years
old, succumbed to the cold yesterday and
died a few minutes after he was found.
James Lambert, address unknown, was
found at West Broadway and Sd street by
a policeman. and the ambulance surgeon
nrOnOunced the man dead.