FROZEN TO DEATH.
THE TERRIBLE FATE OF A YOUNG FARMER. Thos. Delisle is a farmer residing ten miles south of Council Bluffs, lowa. One day lately his son Louis came to town to do some trading. In the evening he started home. When some distance from town, his team took fright and ran away, throwing Delisle out. He got up, gave chase, and caught the team in a snowdrift three miles from the city. He extricated them, and while he was hitching up they started again, throwing him down. One wheel passed over his breast. He again gave chase, but he soon fell exhausted from his injuries. The mule team finally reached home. Mr. Delisle, accompanied by a party, hastened in search of his 4on. The search continued all night. Louis was found near Willow Slough Bridge, with hands holding to a barbed wire fence and his arms frozen stiff. He was in a kneeling position, and both legs frozen. He could not move. The thermometer was 25 degrees below zero. He had dragged himself for a mile. He was carried home, and died shortly afterwards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7567, 20 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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186FROZEN TO DEATH. New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7567, 20 February 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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