Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-02-24 | Page 6 | Frozen to Death in a Blizzard

FROZEN TO DEATH :j IN A-BLIZZARD .J P Nome, Alaska, Feb. 24. S. B. West, I K U. S. A., of Fort Davis, was frozen to f s denth yesterday while staking trril ;J 5? five miles from Tishou, during the V 2 severest blizzard ever known here. (I S Mrs. Davenport, wife of a deputy .1 j& United States marshal, and for whom JJ5 Lieut West was marking tho trail, jlSn walked into Tishou through the snow I and reported that Lieut. West had j & been frozen. Deputy Marshal Daven- i port went out, found the body and ' Jq I brought it in. M Llout. Solojnon B. West, who was ' i a nntivo of New Hampshire and 33 ' Kjf, years old, enlisted in the First New c Iffi3 Hampshire volunteers as a private at ; kJ the outbreak of the 'Spenlsh-Amer- ; $21 ican war and, In 1901, entered the 2,' regular establishment as second lieu- jji tenant of the Twenty-second Infantry. iB He went to Alaska with his regiment If IS! last June. , H