The Washington herald., 1907-05-19
Almost
FrOze! !
awful Heart Rendering Experience OF
Gabe Tarbell Who Was Trapped
in His Ice House
prisoner

Gabe TarbeiI, one OF our most resDeck-
ted citizens. had a thrilling and singular
experients last Tuesday which he says
viii ever flourish Ike a green bay tree
in his memory II he lives to be 80 years
Of old.
Gabe always cuts more Ice IN winter
than ANYBODY else m Bingville being as
when sumner time comes and every
body else's ice IN Bingviile IS melted
Cabe sells his ice 20 those who need ice
and thereby makes considerable loose
change. For this reason Gahe has went
and bilt for hisself a big ice house which
Will hold enough ice for several families
at considerable expense. The walls OF his
Zee house is double thick and the SlwdUst
Gabe hauls every winter 70 keep his Ice
from melting represents the output or
several saw mills Gabe IaCherly watches
his ice closer than most people who put
I'd ice. Every few days he goes into his
ice house and treads down the sawdust IN
the crevices between the ice blocks so as
II wont melt so fast and when hot
weather comes he does this regular every
dav. II was by doing this that he got into
trouble last Tuesday
Since the sun has begin 70 git high and
beat down on the icehouse roof Gabe has
been watching his ice pretty close. Last
Tuesday morning ne went inside the ice
house and shut the door fast behind him
as ushual so as not 10 let In the warm
afr from the outside and then he elm Up
on top OF the ice and begin 10 tread down
the sawdust Suddenly as Gabe was
treading here and there his right boot
went down into a crack between two big
blocks Of Ice clean up 20 his knee and
renched his leg turrlble Gabe saws
he cussed out loud he was that
2ained and surprised. Then he tried
10 draw out his leg but It wouldn I
come Gabe thought this was singular and
so he got holt of his boot straps and
pulled and pulled but he couldn't bulge
his foot. Then he realized that he had
stamped 80 hard when his foot went be
tween the two blocks Of ice that II was
stuck there tight Gabe pulled and grunt-
/ ed and grunted and pulled and cussed
some more until he was almost exosted,
] but to save his life he couldn't eXcape
| from the trap which he had caught his
| foot into. so he set down or top OF the
ice with his leg still fast wondering what
| he was a going to do about it.
Suddenly a bright thought come 10 him
| and he hollered for his wife But there
was no answer He hollered again. but
there was still no answer Gabe hollered
until he was hoaTse but nobody come
| Then he realized that with the walls OF
| the Ice house so thick and the door shut
nobody would ever hear him in a thou
sand years.
When Gabe thought Of this he stopped
cussIng and begin to pray for 6eliverance
| He wasn't dressed very warm and he
soon found out that setting on a cake OF
| Ice was not what 1t is cracked up to be
He shifted his seat frequently. but he
saws that sitting on that Ice made the
cold chills run up his back and Il wasn't
! long before his teeth was a chattering
something awful He calkilates that the
temperature In the ice house was down
near zero. As for his foot which was fast
it was numb and froze apparently. Let Us
now leave Gabe in his horrible perdick-
ament and find out what his wife thought
about Il.
Mrs. Tarbell didn't miss Gabe until din
ner time come and he didn't turn up. She
thought this was strange being as Gabt
is a powerful punctual man to his meals
She kept his dinner warm until 1 D. m
and then she ct a mouthful herself and
went out to hunt for her husband She
visited the P O. and Hen Weathersby'
store, but nobody had heard or saw any
thing Of Gabe that morning. and so sh'
returned home in disgust.
Word that Gabe was missing spread
over Bingville like wildfre and searching
parties started out in every direckshion
Some of our most respeckted citizens ever
| droYs as far as the CO, seat but no trac'