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Show IFOUND FOUR DEAD IN A ROAD HOUSE, DEATH III DUE TO EXTREME COLD Temperature 70 Degrees Below Zero on the Trail in Alaska Worst Winter Ever KnowiHIIen Lost Hands and Feet Seattle, Feb. S Three Nome merchants, mer-chants, who have Just arrived In Seattle Seat-tle having traveled from -Nome to Fairbanks and .Yaldea on snow shoes and by stage, report that tho winter In ihe north 1s the most severe eve-known. eve-known. They left Nome, December 7. and encountered continuous bad weather and temperature often 70 degrees de-grees below zeio. On the Valdcz trail they reached Miller's road house Just before lho climax of the storm, and, on entering the house, found four corpses laid out those of .Toe King, an old miner, frozen to death; Mrs. 11. A. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, a middle aged woman well known In Nevada, who died on the stage from heart affectinu duo to the cold; an old man named Taylor, frozen froz-en to death, and Mrs. Miller, proprietress propri-etress of the road house, who had ouccumbed to" pneumonia. At another jolnt on tho trail an aged man named Franz Glebel, had been frozen to death, while driving toward Valdez, with a one-horse outfit. out-fit. Tho Nome men said that winter gold mining In their neighborhood had been highly successful. Newspapers received from the Yukon Yu-kon Yalley tell of miners losing their hands and feet that had been frozen, and of fears entertained for men snowed in on the creeks with in-sufilcltnt in-sufilcltnt supplies. The census enumerators were to hao begun work on January 11, but could not start out. After a brief respite the blizzard is raging again, according to cable advices. The Copper river railroad has been tied up and August Ander-fon Ander-fon has been found dead on the trail between Chltlna and Copper Center. |