Show ajr gae four days daya in a snow drift alin st paul press relates tho tile of a party in a 1 I recent northwest snow storm they had hail started out on 1 journey aljourney of twenty five miles to wiimer vil vii JIl merand and quite early in the tile afternoon it began 6 to snow but they passed on moon loon the tile snow grew intense and great drifts prevented their theli advance setting up lip tile tiie box of one of the blei gh ghi i as asa a protection against a lust the tile anid without food fee and very feW fow blankets they huddled together to eth until the tile snow would pass over ver thus passed tuesday night tile the next ni morning orning oil one ono of them started for a house about a mile distant after aft i trying to persuade the others to accompany him they considered it safer where they were ho he started off and reached readied mea Mca meaghers ghers hands frozen the storm conti so severe that no attempt could be made to rescue the tiie others at it that time they thes the in the tile meantime were suffering all the pangs pans of cold and hunger and it is quite probable that several of them became delirious for when found they were lying out of and near the ilie shelter about 10 on friday morning in a mail man passing assin along the road wi than thau ox learn I 1 heard eard shouts as of 84 0 n A m distress and upon making search discovered the tilo little barricade covered with packed snow and was horrified upon disturbing several apparent knolls in tilo the vicinity to find that they contained core cove the dead bodies of men he found the tile bodies of thos holden steuben oneil and john oneil onell 0 first two quite dead and the tile latter with life almost extinct upon searching under tile the cover lie ho dL discovered covered two feet protruding from the snow and breaking away the tile crust lie found charles oneil onell alive but ina lna in a terrible tei condition the tile lodies bodies were at once lugged to Us ills sled and conveyed to meaghers and thence to Wi Wilme liner rJohn john oneil gnell dying before reaching reach lilg illg that place the tile details of tile the suffering of charles diaries 0 onell neil nell are horrifying and almost incredible it seca seco seems ms that lie he had llad lain down dom dou li immediately upon entering tile tilo cover and had while in this position been fastened down town by tile olle terrible weight of the tile snow which drifted upon him or rather the tile upper portion of his body ut fit ivas was so heark lie said a to cause almost unbearable torture tor tuie tuio after lie found that lie was unable to rh ri seand earld that the tiie snow was covering fils his head ilo lio feared suffocation and to keep that eliat member free constantly raided ML and lowered iland in this tilis manner while lie could not prevent the tilo drift from forming over it lie he formed an air air chamber which prevented suffocation in his liis endeavor to free his lead head the poor fellow actually tore the tile flair hair almost entirely from the tile scalp here lie lay ills liia feet exposed expo ekpo ed to the air froen frozen stiff and tilo the cruel frost creeping up his limbs and unable to move scarcely a muscle of his body from tuesday lii iii night until nearly friday noon can call a more horrible situation bo be imagined t the tiie poor fellows hight right arm is frozen to tile elbow the thu t it right leg to the tile knee and the left leg above the ankle these thebe I liese members are thus far completely dead and lie has been lying ising at wilmer wiimer r until yesterday when tilo the first train succeeded in getting through 1 five of tile horses wore were frozen to deat death leathand hand and the others were found five jive miles milas away all right the tile san francisco ecal heat estate circular says only seven persons were driven 1 to the tho th refuge of sul fiul cido cide in january by the tile ear car splitting notes of tho the calliope of the steamer S br whipple anvill Whip oie PIC against ten lu ill december this pius lids falling off has rendered tho the captain quite melancholy ho he promises to crack on oil more steam this mont month hand and either elther give rejoicing coroners a dozen vil vic CT QT burst a boiler |