Show UNITED AT THE LAST PITIFUL tai TA OF AN EMIGRANT FAMILY THAT HAT PERISHED tile the terrible Terr ibl blizzard of had for some of its it victims a whole r family aay which froze to death in dead madva man cove COTO heroic efforts of a mother dead mans cove right before your eyes said the old man as he pointed to a recess of half an acre in extent in the southern face of the little rocky mountains dead mans cove ind and you yon idu see the iron work of the wagon alyin about when yo ya git closer when I 1 first looked in here was five hrman hman bodies lying dead in that agon me an my pard we dug a big piave and buri buried edem em all together back agin that cliff whar the is we piled the rocks that way so the wolves c edrit 1 git eit at the dead but 31 anere re is no headboard no namez names I 1 protested as I 1 rode closer to the spot pointed out ont be ba no names hames cause we fin dany he replied laud and them rocks is a grave stun as will last forever well git off and sit down fur far a smoke and ill gin ye the full partick lers ive passed here a hundred times in the last three years and it allus gives me tha heartache poor husband poor wife poor children I 1 i it was this way he continued after his bis pips bips was alight me and pard lied had our shanty down the valley about a mile plenty of emigrants in ther kiv ered wagons used to come by this trail and turn south into byomin or keep west into idaho corns come five or six dim families at a time and corns coma singly some of era em would tako take sich bich chances of sickness landslides and death as would make your bar stand on end to think of no man kin begin to guess how many graves be of men women and children between the dakota line and the west branch of the missouri river ive counted a hundred in a days ride waal one december mornin momin mo me and pard woke up to feel that was a blizzard makin ready to bust on us it bad been coolish but pleasant up to that time wo we could tell by the feel of things what was comin and began to git ready fur it it was jest arter noon when a woman walked into our shanty she was an emigrant right bight here in this cove she had left her husband and fo foni az children to try and find some help he had bin sick fur three weeks and was little better than a dead tan man and she had bin daiv darivin m i the team an ke of things ge neely she orter to hev turned back long before but some fool of a doctor had told the man hed get well if U they ey kept on they had got separated from the party they started with and had made the last hundred miles alone they the y war out 0 grub a match left to build a fire and the woman knowel a chango change fur the tha was blowin cupl she was a frail beetle woman and she had gone through with to io down a man but she lost all her p pluck luck yit A As soon as she told us the story we got ready to go back with her an bring in the outfit we made a start but we nover got the blizzard prevented eh shadid she did she came swooping down all of a sudden like some gref bird dropkin from the sky A fine f ine inow enow begun to tall fall the tha wind started right in to blow a livin gale and I 1 believe the thermometer went from 45 begs above to 10 begs below inside of half an hour we any with us but the change was sudden an amalin you face that gale tosane to save your life it jest stopped us and turned us around before we had goffic got fifteen rods from tho the hoase As to the cold it jest paralyzed you we had to bo go back and arter a big drink 0 0 whisky all around and on more clothes we tried it agit agin wo M and sam was as tough as vars bara them days and could hev laid down in a pond of water and let it freeze up with us as but we buck agin that blizard gard when we made the second start we got about half way up there here the littler woman leadin the way all the time then we had to stop you sea three foot from your nose and all of us was freelin to death by inches and you went back we did the woman W oman was deter mined to push on and we jest had to pick her up and carry her back etwas it waa only by theloris the lords hand the tha way that we e ever reached our cabin agin wo we had bad our ears noses and fingers fri fin aind an hour arter we got back friz solid in our cabin within five foot of a boarin fire the woman prayed tc god and appealed to us but we knowel it was no use that was them the blizzard of 1881 and ive heard beard men eu say it was waa 43 42 alegs below zero in this valley that W eight lit re tho woman got nipped than we old did but her mind was on the family back here she was waa bound to td come back alone but we stood her off tir till about dark then she made a bolt fur far it and got away and went to her death jest as sartin as if she had lumped off that cm cliff the blizzard shet us in fur three days whence when we got boutwe out wa found her within twenty rods of th tha a cabin she had bad friz to death goin that fur of course we knowel how it would be up here the horses had bad been on hitched and turned out they lay over by that tree the folks in the wagon had crowded together and up lip with all the blankets but all war stun dead and as hard as rocks s they nevea saw that fust night come down me and pard overhauled the wagon but we find anything givin the tame name of the family and so like hundreds of others out in this kentry 0 of f dountain noun tain and valley injun and wolf we em into in to sleep till tha lord gits ready to call em fur judgment seems awful that a hull fadly should be ba wiped out that way but bat they ay ai abar together and Igue lorall know the tha spot even if is no grave stun to mark it il new york her tild ld I 1 I 1 |