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Show SNOW TRAPS FIVE TWO CHILDREN DIE IN MOTHER'S ARMS Lose Way in Blizzard and Spend Night in Sight of Shelter, Watertown, N. Y. Within sight of shelter but unulile to reach It because be-cause of the blizzard, two little girls froze to death In their mother's arms. The mother herself was unconscious from the cold but she and two other children, although suffering greatly, are expected to recover. The four children of Gilbert Dunn, a farmer near Chateaugay, hnd gone to school as usual in the morning. But as the blizzard ros to a fury she had never seen before, Mrs. Dunn decided to fetch them home. She hitched a pair of horses to a bobsled and started for the school, but half a mile away realized she could not hold the horses to the road. She struggled on a little further to the home of a neighbor. He took the team and after a hard fight against the blizzard got' back to his house with the children. Start for Home. The four youngsters Ina, Lena, Evelyn and Gilbert, Jr. were numb with cold, hut after they were thuwed out before the neighbor's fire Mrs. Dunn said she would start tor home. Huddled Together Against the Billiard. Bill-iard. The neighbor protested. The snow was driving so fast before the gale that It stung like hail, the horses were tired, the road could hardly be seen. It was only a mile, though, nnd Mrs. Dunn Insisted. All four children crowded close to her on the unprotected, unpro-tected, sleigh, and for a little way the horses pulled bravely. But Mrs. Dunn could not keep them on the road ; soon they were plunging and rearing In drifts above their bellies, and at last they quit, exhausted. No amount of las-hing could urge them on. Another farmhouse was just visible through the swirling snow, and Mrs. Dunn tried to reach It on foot. She stumbled and fell a few yards from the sleigh and Just managed to crawl back to her children. Find Two Dead. Huddled together against the blizzard, bliz-zard, the five numbly watched the snow pile higher and higher around them. Long before morning It had covered them completely, and the father, fa-ther, searching for them until late at night, could have passed close without with-out seeing them. In the morning Dunn aided by two neighbors, renewed the search. The blizzard had partly subsided, and after severql hours the farmer found his family. He had to dig them out of the snow, and when they reached the nearest house Inn and Lena were dead. Evelyn's feet were so badly frozen that they may have to be amputated. Mrs. Dunn was in a serious seri-ous condition and only Gilbert will suffer no permanent Injury. |
