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Show FROZEN TO DEATH, j A FOOLHARDY EMIGRANT AND FAMILY LOST IN THE MOUNTAINS. He Persisted In rushing on His Way Through a Snow lilorknde in the Chil-liowie Chil-liowie Mountains in Tennessee No Trace of Him (an be Found. Kmoxvili.e, Tcun., Nov. 24. It is said that an emigrant train consisting of s-ix wagons and thirty-three people on the way west nu t with a snow blockad' iu the C'hil-howie C'hil-howie mountains. Men, women and children, chil-dren, with the exception of a farmer named George Akcrs, who was intoxicated, went into camp Sunday. Akcrs persisted in sroin on through the storm and said he would not stop until he reached the mountain top. Monday morning when the other members started from Knowville, they traced Akcrs and his wagons a few miles and then lost all track of him. The supposition is that the foolhardy man and his family cither lost their way and rolled into the river or fell into some deep ravine and were frozen to dtath. |