Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1860 — Frozen to Death. [ARTICLE]

Frozen to Death.

We have been furnished with the following particulars of a terrible affair that occurred at Colchester, in this county, on Thursday evening of last week. There has been residing in that place a family by the name of Craig, and being poor, the wife was in the habit of going ? out to wash for the neighbors, and on Thursday last she went as usual to her labois. After doing her day’s work she started about seven o’clock for her home, but she never reached it. Her husband supposing she had remained where she had been at work, on account of the cold, made no search for her that night. But in the morning he started out for the village, (the family living one-half mile west of the town,) and made some inquiries about her, and found that she had started for home the evening before, and also that she was partially intoxicated when she left. He immediately commenced a search and soon found her on the prairie near the railroad track—a frozen corpse. It seems that she had fallen down in the snow, and, unable to get upon her feet, she had crawled around in the snow upon her hands and knees, and quite a large place was trampled over, showing that she struggled hard to save her life. Her hands were clenched and frozen, and in fact her whole body was frozen solid. Upon the same evening that the above occurrance took place, a man named Daniel McCartney, also living in Colchester, was nearly frozen to death. He had been drinking poor whisky during the evening, and finally started fur home. He was found about three o’clock next morning in a shed asleep, and nearly dead. His hands and feet were very badly frozen, but fortunately he was found in time to save his life.— Alacomb {III,) Enterprise, 29 th.