Show DRA tar 1 V A SAW III STORM an account of a winter spent in the wilds of idaho eastern people said tho old miner as lie he deftly caught a live mill coi front from the wood fire around which we had bad gathered after our days hunt la in the maluo woods and thrust it in hi the bowl of Ws pipe have but little idea of the heavy snow falls of tho the nud and the tha sierras or what want dai damage linge Is 1 often caused from froin the accumulated weight I 1 remember well lie added healing my father tell hoir lit in boric state buck back in ili the thirties that tit the fall wits once so great that the men wort coin am polled to organize amanthe relief parties to dig illg awny away tho the big bl drifts front many of the houses and that when driving along tho the streets ono could almost look from tho the level into the second story window but is as I 1 passed the farst twenty years yeara of my life in that town and witnessed nothing more remarkable that than dretta over oter the top wi ot of fences anti and the tha temporary blackl ot the scarcely traveled luck back roads I 1 conclude stories fiust mye gained somewhat from th the e lapse or oc years iio he smoked rapidly and quietly for a perhaps to bather his thoughts it a little and why the fau was waa so excessive and clutia now once in idano idaho territory upon the steep root roof of our mill that the large timber of below which tho the engine had been built was bent almost to ta breaking we feared our extra weight bollia surely brent break tt it but fortunately the weather changed the warm arm south wind blew up tho canyon anti and the snow below the eaves of tho the building settled so BO that tha we nye could dig under the huge mass mas and by night halt had caused it 11 inin aturo snow slide anti and relieved the strain I 1 believe how ever tho the timber never regained its normal position but lit in the mining town lu in the sierras where I 1 wintered lit in the early aix sixties ties our first snow fell during october and la the mor iluff lay four our feet on the level the storm lasted about forty eight hours and we then had beautiful weather for fop several weeks when me snow had bad partially bially melted tile the frame of a ten horse wagon front from which tile tho wagon box had been removed was found to a be crushed to splinters even the spoken pol ca or of tho the wheels torn and twisted out of all recognition from the list hist of november until may severe storms were of very frequent occurrence until by actual ment tile snow lay nearly thirty feet on oil the level to travel tiny auy whatever was of course impossible without snow shoes and every roan mall woman bollian and became wore or loss less of nil na export expert wo we used tho shoo shoe exclusively for with them thein the sport lq fast lind n nd furious eleven feet long and about four inches inroad with a leather hand band about one third from broin the too toe by which the foot Is firmly held bold by its forward press pressure the toe of the shoo shoe gracefully prace fully turner upward wo we learned to bras brag of thew them and cherish them ns as the file rider doe lila ills horse ns as well wo we might for wl out them we ne helpless hol plesa the bd b torn tom of tile is mado as amoon amoo na its glass and covered after each tri arll with it 11 mixture of tallow aej nm bee wax A stout rory lory pole chosen with mat c bout six feet long ions and with a on tho the end la is the gulding rudi nd the expert soon learns to pass near and often between acts where ali n would BRan dearth As the speed down any steep woun mountain side often exceeds a mile a mer tile tho the modern cyclist or auto la Is not of in it of course in theao deep snows tho the one story cabin of the miner would soon boon bo be burled but care to la a always taken jo to shovel away as far a ns possible the accumulations that with the earlier storms when there tire ire piles everywhere and shovelling sho velling becomes useless tile snow enow I 1 Is p permitted re to llo ile where pitfalls it rails and ingress and egress to tho the cabin Is if nude made by way of tho the chimney no fires fur for warmth are needed as aa not a breath of alp air can enter the cabin and none no I 1 are inside inide except such ruch as can ile bo kept lit in the large camp kettles hung i in tile alre place chico on it a crane cran 0 abo T be C clile noy ney is kept free arco from snow enow by ivicin iii cin of a wooden roof fitting over its top loil nail and above it and it la Is absolutely P essential that between it and tile the r nf the snow must bo be kept cleared away steps tiro are arranged lit in the cli linner for easy casy elli climbing abing and when tlc alc mine enters his cabin lie he stands ills his in the snow bank u short way frum the alip ch chimney linney as his ciomo could not readily bo be found once more lio lie paused refilled oni and lighted ills pipe and said na te if tl tani ilni iiii self ua and it all happened over forty forts years ago the two carlton brothers vel veterans erins of the civil war front from maine where whery they claimed to have some snow storms of their own lived in a cabin some little distance fram the street tile the hugo banks of snow had long since covered it and llan ann others for several weeks they had brawled rawl cd in and out of it through tholar chimneys tills this was war their first winter in these mountains and tiey they lind lil leon been often warned to keep the ib e below the chimney clear front from snow lost lest the top be covered somi anti and they be smothered lint hut illo hall laughed good and wild they wore were old back backwoodsman backwoodsmen men ell aal were not afraid after a of unusual Rual por crity which had brid ill hid tod 1 everal days the question was disked lit in the loafing rown room of tile tho cotol in i big three story building where it a ti liala alf hundred miners inells In made hom leonii i if any one had seen or hoard heard of kir all carlton ills his rather brother atlin hagim snow phoeb to till nil adjoining town tin ill week before no ono one had find and tin tho former sPoke spokesman sinan added well y cwi know ds Y a a tenderfoot and lont any too cie U defill ful about kJ illig tile the chimney open its as lie should Filk lie aers A few minutes later tile tho roso rose and moving ino vang 0 to o the be window w wr entered and delin departed depart ried pd from the 1 I ond end story said 1 I t reckon ckon tny my boy and I 1 will so go over to a milk cabin I 1 if need tiny help ill s sen tile tho boy buirk ali invites Int ites later inter tile boy 16 ho 0 window opened it tin ja rap pall sacs easa nil or oc you cot mk k bring lots of snow couple of blankets le fie women get otto of tho the act arm rm and make some hot jace M ac it dout take or us old follows fall ill of 0 tragedies and start 1 in IB to 0 get ready for almost a of contingency ariti tj I 1 10 ind a stopped talking wort till dozen strong and willing met beveral or of tile the other sex BOX not 0 weaker sex BOX in a mining ell 11 e gliding gilding over tile Int luter ervell veu atlle it was a beautiful efter the anil and lu in the p air of oc that great altitude act et stood out as ag clear and dl a 4 if all nature rejoiced and lit t of death was possible tin the ar anchor aches of at tile tho many pluit IN ipuy weighted with tile tho late ly i stio ana tile tho level expanse of air v lako with its whito cov in the bright sunlight nini cuse mirror word was spoken nor a sound tile the still air except tho the 8 if f our snow slices shoes LIS as wo we toward custons Cul Carl tons cabin as s built as ait I 1 have said a lit uce fiam the more thickly illicitly SO part pait of the tortu to n many 0 of the smaller cabins cabin ky W ried out of sot an anil upon rivals iral nothing could lc be seen to alst its ita position except a huge of enow anti and the ends of tw two 0 1 I shoes where the el ey was two dozen w willing I 1 I 1 were eie soon hard nt at work c cleir 1 ear the ithe huge drifts aud and as soon boon mucy was uncovered w etc i we 0 o reared feared aud and expected t space pace around it lud hall been I 1 itce to lie ile and haidou it wits but too plain that what hall had fallen dura dur as c tills this previous storm IKUI had ly IY lied the small space below the CLI cul I 1 ney cap and tho the cabin been hermel heri I 1 mel cally scaled As aa soon Is as the I 1 op ing was made a couple of us I 1 ell bd abed down poor carlton stool stood P i 1 ting against the bricks of at the clil nucy fully clothed eun to his bli i agniv overcoat and the all air was ta as nuu a close clot foul odor I 1 hero here v 1 re 10 no ito matches lit in the cabin or 01 tillo ills his poison person ile iio had evidently slept K r nd soundly and realized from lit sensations when lie awoke and be 1 oil c ue no partially conscious ons cloua that alint lie hei gnp evne bl b s rd that ile he lind had become ig ill r d and all had wandered i ij j rand aroi t tho le c abin was aln trident evident by t Q articles strewn upon the floor bloor anti and hen lie ho finally found the chini ticy lad been too loo weak to miko the hie loscent and hall had gradually gia dually fallen into ills last sleep slot p io 4 i o he lind had boon been dead for lit hours horns or more aud and na as flip ana as raging so eo lier cely nt at ti that at it Is by no menus means certain t alint I 1 a t have been rescued it biad all I 1 its ills been kitowna dy was wrapped tn tit blankets berly carried to the hotel ired ared nt at once for burial the as dug duff near nn an old chic tree twenty four foot feet of snow J steps S had io 10 bo be cut to load down 10 wn abo round ground there was no lio minister bi alio amp but one olic of oe tho rought out a prayer book find and the billal it aal service was read and probably probable ach aali ono one of us ui sent up till sonio some sort of i prayer that lie ise might malto make a hilly py landing other share over a hundred mer men aud ana women on oil now air shoes tile body OM tho hotel to tile tho grave tile tho wind wl na ginging a soft requiem as we ire laid I 1 the e rody ody away in that great whito her and commented upon tho the shugu ar fatality that hall carrot barred blin cafe f fe 7 through years of bloody strife ring to t last dinst meet inept ills his deirth in that str e it I 1 puniner feet above ills him home of irly days on tho the rockbound rock bound shores tho the atlantic |