Show I 1 naz I 1 sf ho X bixl IL in 11 ll snow now maud I arm 4 of cor forcible For Int rectina from tile com coin of fib ISO asui I 1 afao down train on the bliss missouri Onri PIT aa cicia grouf ht to our city six hunters froni from tho the southwest to the un expected cold weather on t the be plains during the latter part of january which the they presented a pitiable right eight and ono one which will long bo be remembered remember edly by those choso who taw saw them carried carri edone one byo by O conein tie in their helpless condition and depo deposited on the iho platform at the depot where 11 they rt rc until removed in ar 1111 larlee to tire iho suit sisters rs hospital on oa sixth and kiowa out oat iier T visited tho iho i lioa hospital altal in the afternoon to learn the fall feitl particulars concerning these whose owes names are A D bidwell or ohio FA 1 A of Wi wisconsin bronin J IS thomas and A bl arith of indiana NV A bl malory alory of Mich michigan igau and nd junes james galin gillin is an employed of the A T anil and SIP roads and is but slightly injured i cared 1 he other five are hunters who mho were caught in the terrible storm which alu ch swept ea apt over the plains OB monday the of january they ahey were on the north branch of crooked creek sixty miles southwest of fort dodge in the iho pursuit of buffalo when they were oyer overtaken taken by the st estorial orial it t blew a perfect jale gale and the tb drifting now enow blinded theia at nearly every step and they toon soon lost loat their reckoning the horses they had with them froze froio to death tho the wagon containing tb their provisions rr was abar abandoned dowd for seven sele I 1 days LIPS and they dragged themselves along over atik the plain and insull through ith the drifted with frozen feet and hands and anal famishing bing for the want of food on sunday night flight thead instant they reached dodge city where I 1 they hey were ill kindly cared for by y the c and made as comfortable aa 0 the limited accommodations of tho the place would permit it was discovered that ampula tion would bo necessary but there being no physician in the place willing to undertake tho tast task a tel gram was wag sent to this thin aitt city and f accommodations secured for them at the sisi firs hospie where they could receive receive all the attentions their pre precarious condition demanda their hands feet and legs are t terribly swollen in fact MB fire a perfect in ot corruption creati oz a stench which drove us from the room in which they were confined before they were ware removed from the tha union depot oue one of the tha number dumber lost his hi tir carr feord his bead putrid BUM 1 they bear up their liko like men used to hardships and long ing og very patient and two of them are arc inclined to bo be jovial thomas from whom we obtained our information appeared to bo be the grittiest gritt iest lie he has been oil OB the plains for the last twenty years sed and hui harl withstood many harda hups in his bia frontier life dr na M 8 Tho thomas milis is attending them but at the time lime I 1 of our i visit had not come coma to any conclusion con clumon how to proceed although althou Kh ank he a considered amputation aw necessary in all tho the cases axce excepting perhaps M in that ot t tho ra railroad 9 em aloye the worst cases were to receive his hia attention first |