History of Martin County; a true and complete history of the county from its earliest settlement down to 1880 - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...a dog, thinking that might prevent his getting lost. The road then ran directly by the house. By looking down one could see the track, but could not face the storm as the wind would fill eyes and face full, and it would freeze on. This party stated that his dog would not follow him but when he would stop and call, the dog would come to him, but that when he went on again the dog stopped. He finally examined the dog and found his eyes entirely covered with ice. The reason that horses and cattle leave the oeaten path in such storms is that they are blinded with the storm and snow frozen on their eyelids. The weather turned very cold during this storm. At Silver Lake two families of young people by the name of Pressler and Laudaker started home from singing school. They had an ox team and sleigh filled with ha3' and blankets. As they were going with their backs to the storm, they thought iLey would get home ail right, but the team left the road, and wandered around, with the boys taking turns scouting away from the sieigh trying to and the road and house unLil they got stuck in the drifting snow. The storm was so severe and the snow so thick they could see no distance from the sleigh and did not dare leave. Ihe Landaker boy stayed outside the sleigh, trying to see or hear something, keping himself warm by pounding around the sleigh and lying between the oxen. They were there two nights and one day before the storm abated. Th.i uext morning after the storm Mr. Landaker's dog came to them and the boys found their way to the house, he oxen were frozen, and the r.Ii' ee girls wore frozen to death itting in the sleigh. The Landaker bov who was outside so much of the time lost only part of one foot. One Pressler boy lost both feet mid hands and two other boys lost b...