CHILDREN IN THE SNOW.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2164, 22 May 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHILDREN IN THE SNOW.

Minnie Junks" Heoric Efforts to save HbR little Brothers and Sisters. Frkd Joxe.s of Mill creek, Va, went to Kvunston on business and his wife was called to town by the sickness of a daughter. Fredrick, 15; Minnie. ]fc; Earnest, 10; George, 5 years and six months, anri Harry, (5 years old, were lett at home. A neighbouring boy came (in a visit, and Fred, despite the protests of the younger ones, hitched up the team and started to take him home. Not returning at night, the yWmgor ones liecame lonely aud started (iff'to a ranch threu and a half miles distant. They 'oon became tired, wet, aud cold, in M'ading through the deep soft snow. Twelve-year- old Minnie then carried the others at short intervals, one of them at ft time. Their overshoes were 10-t in the snow, but they struggled on and made two miles of the distance. Then they stopped, worn out, bat 10-year-old Earnest went on to the ranch, where they expected help, but he returned with the report that no one was at home. Then Minnie, cold aud wet, strength almost gone, spread her shawl on the snow, put little Harry in the middle of it and the others close beside him. As she laid Harry down he said : "I'm dying, sitter ; T know it ; you take good care of my little lambs." The brave little girl then took off her cloak, dress and skirts, and piled them over the little ones, and stood alone in the windy winter night, with nothing but two thin, wet uudergarments to shield her -from the severe cold. She then ran to the edge of the bank that overlooks Mill Creek bottoms and shouted long and loud for help. The child's piteous waiKpenetrated the gloom and reached the ears of Frank Naramore, en.ployed upon and just returning to Lannon's rauch from John Hatton's, where he bad been spending the evening. He put the hor^e he was riding in a swift ruu for the direction of the cry. On reaching Minnie he lifted her to the auimal's back and proceeded to the little bed on the open prairie, where the candle of lite had been extinguished from one of tho little ones, aud was already fast consuming the vitality of another. He placed them altogether with himself on the horse, and proceeded as fast as possible for the tanch, where he left all but Harry, whom he took up to Hatton's. Mrs John Goodman was called in, warm baths, rubbing, and everything known was done to re vivo him, hut without avail. Young Naramore immediately returned to the other children and found George but just alive, and it wait poly by the greatest exertion that hia life \vm ttveoWl!JY»n,Bton Ottnftion,