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LITTLE FALLS, MORRISON COUNTY. MINNESOTA. FRIDAY. AUGUST I«. 1880.THE HISTORY OFMORRISffii COUNTY.Whitten in 1870 m ordkr ok tiik UOAIID OF OOUKTT COMMISSIONERS kXU PUBLISHED IN THE TRANSCRIPT IN Ttffc SAME TEAR. RfQSKD AND BROUGHT DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME.By Nathan Richardson.Continued from last week’s Transcript.On the 14th day of January, 1878, Win. V. Hoy, the oldest son of Hon. Peter Hoy, of this place, went out on the west side of the Mississippi river hunting rabbits, in company with another young man. They became separated during the day, and when night came William failed to return home, which aroused the suspicion of his parents that some inisfortuue had befallen him. A party was raised soon after dark and started out to search for him, when he was soon found lying dead upon the icc. about one mile below town, and near the west bank of the Mis-sissippi river, with three rabbits that he had shot. The river had gone down some after it had frozen over in the be-ifc!! IT a ‘w^ the jceto be quite slauting near the bank of the river, so it appeared that as he got onto this slanting place he slipped and fell. The hammer of his gun striking on the ice it went oil', the charge entering hisboys in so sudden and unexpected a man-j ner cast a gloom of sorrow over the en-• tire commtinity. While losing such a | a nice and promising boy caused almost j unbearablojjrief to come upon Mr. Ped-ley and hisunily, the case of tlie other j boy was, impossible, more grievous, as his ] sister, EllaiA. Kendall, lay on her death bed at hoide, And only survived him ten day. Although she several times called for her brother it was not deemed proper to inform l^er what had befallen him, so she died ignorant of the fact that Walter had gone! before her. lie was sixteen years of ag f.Early ii the spring of 1871, near the time to befifn driving logs on the small streams, thp ice in the Mississippi being still in but: quite rotten and full of hojes, Baptist Scbouinard, a man with a large fainifa, who lived in Belle Prairie about twoTmiles north of Little Falls, was drownj^l. He went to Little Falls and purchased a pair of driving boots, and other^necessaries /or driving, after which he got in with his friends and in-j dulged a little too freely in spirituous drinks. He tarried in town until after i dark, and' the night turning out to be very dark and rainy, he got olf the road by sonicmeans and wandered down to the river. He walked out onto the ice a few rods, when he walked into a hole and was drowned not far from his own house. His family heard his shrieks for help a fpu* moments nfW which all \vn« stillthem, until he learned of the death of the boy the next day.In March, 1806, a Frenchman by the name of Andrew Dufort, who then resided in Little Falls with his familjr, went out Cast about six miles one day with a yoke of oxen to get a load of hay. He expected another psrty to go out the same day, but they failed. Whether he waited for them or not is not known, but he went out to where the hay was and stopped over night alone. During the night the weather turned very cold, and a fierce wind sprung up from the north. The cattle got loose from where he hitched them, or he turned them loose, and they came home the next day, but his wife did not think that anything was wrong, and no one outside of the family knew about the matter until the day alter, when his uncle, Cyriac Dufort, and Simon Bastien, and his wife’s brother, James Ledoux, went out to search for him. They found his track at the place where he had gone for hay, and tracked him about a mile and a half, where they found him frozen to death, lying on his face in the snow. He was a small but a robust man, but wa* thinly clad for that season of year. Hcj had a few matches but no provisions.- He tried to start a fire, but failed. The snow in some places showed that he tumbled about a good deal to keep from freezing. fTo be continued.! *
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Little Falls, Minnesota, US
Fri, Aug 13, 1880
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