The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-02-13
CARLE'S CONDITION
is STILL GRAVE
In Conscious Moments, Barre Policeman
Tells of Movements Up to Time
He Lost Consciousness
in the Snow.

The condition OF Policeman George X.
Carle, who was found unconscious in the
snow on Blackwell street yesterday
morning after he had lain there four and
one half hours in temperature 20 below
zero, was still grave to-day, it was re-
ported at the City hospital, where he
was taken shortly after he was found.
The fact that he had lain in the snow
that length OF time was determined early
to-day when he rallied long enough from
his stupor to converse for a few mo-
ments with his attendants. He regained
consciousness at infrequent intervals
yesterday.
Once he called for nourishment and
again he emerged from coma and rec
ognized members of the family He was
conscious in the evening but he was un-
able to talk coherently at all times. His
lower limbs from the soles Of his feet
halfway to his knees were thoroughly
frozen and his arms were as badly froz-
en- nearly to the elbows. His thighs and
upper arm extremities were extremely
chilled and the back of the neck was
affected so by the cold that the mans
head could not be moved for some time
after he reached the hospital. Parts of
the face were frozen, too, and one eye
was closed to-day. In a conscious mo-
ment late this forenoon the officer com
planned of intense suffering
Officer Carries version OF his journey
toward home Wednesday night tsllies
in the main with the story told by Viii
liam Bianchi of Railroad street, who
walked down the Central Vermont track
with the officer as far as the Blackwell
street underpass. In few broken
phrases Carle told to-day Of the drench-
ing he got at the fire on North Main
street late Wednesday night After get
ting permission from the chief to retire,
he started for home, stopping once at
Jacks Lunch" on Depot square. He
pursued his course down Main street
as far as the Scampini block, where he
fell in with the Biauchi boy The two
turned into Granite street and took the
railroad tracks. Officer Carle left the
lad at Blackwell street, the latter con
tinuing down the track and home.
Two hundred yards from the point OF
according to Carries narra-
tive, he was seized with an attack of
dizziness. He thought to rest for a few
Thoroughly mumbed and we'll
nigh exhausted. he sat down on the ter
race which skirts the street as il ex-
tends along the edge of the meadows.
In that moment consciousness seems to
have taken wing. Garlic vaguely recalls
The leeting thought that his only saliva
tion lay in keeping to the path ahead
Of him.
But he had stopped in sheltered
spot and the warmth seemed to grow
rather than disappear. He abandoned
himself to the protection of the terrace
md the soft snow. The most reasonable
conjecture fixes the hour at | :45 o'clock. !
From that time on until the dawn. the !
nan lay there in the cold. All about |
lim were houses, shelter and warmth |
Help was TO be had for the asking could |
he man have aroused himself TO the |
,ravity of his predicament Less than
. feet away in the little store where !
Jarle was carried at the break of day, |
lept the merchant, Salem GhiZ.
Neither Ghiz nor anyone living in that /
-icinity was aware that a human being I
vas graphing with the sleep of death 4
II the meadows Just across the street. /
Young Bianchi, who is Il years old, fur
lished Carle's brother officers with their
irst clue as to when the man reached I
Blackwell street.
The officers learned through Alderman 1
.Iiehael Keefe's son, that he was walk /
ng homeward with hoy on the morn
ng of the fire. All yesterday afternoon
N officer qanvassed the north end for
he purpose OF locating the boy. He
vas found toward evening. His story
eemed to establish beyond a doubt the
act that Officer Carle was in the snow
onger than the hour which competent T
Judges had assigned as being the limit
{ human endurance under weather con-
iitions that existed Thursday morn
ng.