Show f 7 T S JACK J CK FROSTS FROST'S WORK CURIOUS ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY BV BYICE BYS S ICE AND SNOW Sudden Thaw Responsible for Tragedies Trag eWes edies In All Parts Part of the Earth- Earth Remarkable Disaster on the Zee Although sc scores r s of lives are lost yearly as a result of rash skaters venturing yen ven yen yen- turing on Ice too thin to bear their weight yet the wor worst wont t tragedies of frost trost are are by by a curious contradiction those those caused by thaw thaw- says Pearsons Pearson's Pearsons Pearsons Pearson's Pear Pear- sons son's Weekly In February four tour years ago there was a tremendous frost on the continent conti onti nent The Vistula among other rivers was covered with Ice of Immense Im Ito mense thickness and when tho the thaw came camo and the bonds of frost were loosened the roaring river became choked with gigantic dams of Ice In Galicia near the tho floes grounded In a shallow part of the stream and Instantly a vast barrier of Ice began to tb rear Itself while behind It the choked river swelled Into a mighty lake and pouring g over Its banks Inundated the flat fiat country for tor fora tora a width of 19 milesA miles A regiment of sappers armed with dynamite arrived by special train bu but their efforts were of little use Within 24 hours no fewer than ten villages were under water SOO families fam tam flies were homeless and nearly 70 people peo pIe were drown drowned d A dreadful disaster was that which happened a couple of of winters ago at on the Zee This great shallow Inland sea of or brackish water usually freezes every winter for fora a long distance out One January evening a lumber Dumber of people were amusing themselves skating off the village some BOme at a considerable dis distance distance tance from shore when suddenly a 8 great floe acres In extent cracked away from the rest of th the i Ice e and a rapidly widening lane of water divided dIvided di dI- vided a dozen skaters from the shore S Some plunged In and swam back but seven were carried out to sea on the floating Ice Those on shore rushed for b boats ats but here the frost completed Its deadly work The boats were too tightly frozen Into the sand of the beach to be moved and by bythe bythe bythe the time one was loosened it was dark Next day the unhappy skaters were found frozen to death On the low sandy shores of Lake Michigan stands the village of Sandpoint Sandpoint Sand Sand- point a little place of wooden wooden built built houses which is oddly Is-oddly oddly enough enough in In Inhabited habited only In winter Its people are fishermen who catch their prey by cutting holes holes' in the Ice when tile the lake freez freezes s. s One COne night In February ebru ry 1907 a tremendous gale arose and b before fore the sleeping Inhabitants of five of these little boxliKe dw dwellings knew I what had happened their homes which were built without foundations were blown on on- on onto to the Ice and went sliding out at a great speed across the frozen surface One ho house se dropped Into a water h hole le and Its inhabitants inhabitants in in- habitants were drowned but the others fortunately brought up safe against the edge of a a- along long cape which runs out crescent fashion almost opposite opposite op op- the village One of the most most amazing tragedies of frost occurred In Colorado on a February day 12 years ago The temperature tern tem was far below zero but theair theair the theair air dry and clear and the sun shining shining shining shin shin- ing with amazing brilliancy Five people veople who were driving together across the tract of forest reserve known as North park did not really feel the cold Suddenly the distant mountains disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis appe appeared red in a white mist and the sun lost lost Its Its brilliancy Presently one of the women put her hand up to her cheek crying out that something had stung her A breeze began to blow and the air became charged with a mist of fine particles which glistened like diamond dust They saw sawa a settler his face covered In a shawl signaling to them furiously They drove to his house and he hurried them in Before Defore morning all all' the party was dreadfully ill and one woman woman wom worn an was dead This fog is of fine ice particles so Intensely cold that they reach the lungs without melting The Indians justly call this strange phenomenon phenomenon phe phe- the white death |