Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-08 | Page 1 | Severest Winter Ever Known in Far North

I SEVEREST WINTER EVER EE KNOWN IN fAR NORTH Three Nome ome Merchants Tell of oC Travel Trel III tog 01 ozi Snow Shoes amid b by Stage with ll 70 0 Below Belowa SattIe a Mh fb 1 S h oe Nome le merchants who have hao jus just rn Seattle hanl traveled from Nome to and on snow an and by stag stage report that the win winter lei In the norh north Is the most sever severe ever known Tey They let left Nome De Dec 7 and andI nl I encountered u I bd IA lU u bd lU Ind and oton often 70 derees degrees be below below low zer zero On the Valdez trail they reached Millers roadhouse just before beCore the climax ot of the storm and on en entering the hOWe house found four ou corpses laid of Joe King King an old miner toren to death Mrs 11 H A ARc Rc 1 el e a middle aged woman well known In Nevada caa who die died on the tho atago tram fromn hear heart affection due to the cold on nn old man man named Talol Taylor Cozen frozen to 10 death and Mrs ll Miller PT pro o of tIme the rad road house who had succumbed to pneumonia At another point on the trail an aged man named Franz GIebel had been heen Creen to death while drIving toward aldes with a The Nome Nonie men man lard sold that winter gold mining In theIr neighborhood had ben been highly successful Newspapers received from tIme the Yukon Valley tel tell or of miners 10 losing hands hand and feet teet that had bo boon frozen and ot of COrs entertained for tal men sowed snowed In on the lie creeks wih with insufficient supplies Time The census us were to have bogun work on January 1 U but not stat start out After Atur n a brief respite the tho i iraln is raging agin again to cable ad advices vices Ices Te The Copper River railroad hn has bon been ted tied up ad aad August An has been found dead on the trail Chitina and Copper C Center