The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1910-01-10
OVERTAKEN BY
sudden Blizzard
YOUNG PEOPLE or LA MoVRE
HAVE EXCITING EXPERIENCE
HORSES LOST I'M STORM

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LaMoure Chronicle: The Chronicle
knows of four gentlemen and two
young ladies who will think twice
and then some-Ihefore they start out
on another ten-mile drive at night
and in threatening weather. The sex
tette above referred to include Messrs.
o. A. Miller Arthur Brands, Ira Tain
tor and Roy Shadduck and Misses Lu-
tie and Ruth Prior. Last Saturday
morning at three O'Clock this party
pulled out Of Berlin for LaMoure. They
had attended a dance at Berlin three
in the capacity Of musicians and three
as dancers--and when they left town
the weather was cold and blustery,
but the sky was clear and there
was no blizzard signs. Mr.. Brands
and Miss Lutte Prior were in a
cutter to which an ordinary buggy
| top had been attached, while the
other members of the party drove
ahead in two seated sleigh, When
out about three miles from Berlin the
wind rose suddenly, the sky became
clouded and the air was filled with
| snow. Two gentlemen in the front rig
were out trying to locate the road
when they heard a shout in the rear
Running back they found that Mr.
Brands rig had capsized, the driver
cIinging to the lines with one hand and
trying to extricate his companion from
snow drift with the other. AS the
men approached the rig the horses
sprang forward and struck off across
the prairie on the dead run. Miss Prior
had fortunately gotten free from the
rig, and Brands was soon compelled
to let go of the lines. The fleeing horses
were almost Immediately swallowed UP
in the darkness and storm, and 1t
seemed worse than folly to attempt to
follow them. So Miss Prior was taken
in the other rig, and the men proceed
ed on foot The trail was followed with
great difficulty and the party reach
ed LaMoure at about $3.50 a. m.
A blizzard ragged all day Saturday,
ana beyond telephoning the farmers
living southwest of LaMoure, Livery
man Patterson made no attempt to
find his missing rig. Sunday fore
noon Lee DeLong and Mr.. Brands
hitched team to a sleigh trip. They
went at once to the scene of the acci-
dent, saw the upturned cutter some
distance from the road. and in a few
moments came upon the horses, less
than a hundred rods from the cutter.
For nearly forty hours the poor crea-
lures had stood-or tramped in mar
row circle-without food or water and
wholly unprotected from the terrible
weather When 1t is recalled that
the blizzard ragged all day Saturday and
that the following night was one OF,
the coldest Of the season, some idea
of the torture endured by those livery
horses, wholly unused to such exposure,
to such exposure may be had. 1t seems
that they had become fouled in a snow
drift and In plunging about one of the
lines and a tug became imbedded in
the snow and were tramped in so solid
that when the boys reached the team
they were unable to jerk the line and
tug loose and had to get an axe, from
their sleigh and literally chop them
loose. The horses were lea into La
Moure judiciously fed and watered, and
to all appearances are now "fit as a
fiddle" Take 1T from us--it isn't in
safe to start on long night drive in |
North Dakota in the kind Of weather |
that prevails this winter.