The New Hampshire Gazette Newspaper, November 4, 1757, Page 1

i S Contqifling the Frefheft Advices A wonderful and affelling account of the prefervation of three perfons buried above five aecks in [now fixty fect decp, by Dr. Joleph Brawi, Profeffir of Philojophy at Turin. From Y the Philolophical Tranjactions, publifbed this month. Small clufter of houfes at a place called Ber- gemoletto, near Demonte, in the upper valley of Stura, wason the 19th of March, 1753, en- tirely overwhelmed by two vaft bodies of fnow that tumbled down from a neighbouring moun- tain, All the inhabitants were then withia doors, except oné Jofeph Rochia and his fon, a lad of 15, who were on the roof of their houfe clearing away the fnow which had fallen for 3 days inceflantly. A prieft going by to mals, advifed them to come down, having jaft before obferved a body of fnow tum - bling from the mountain towards them. The man defcended with great precipitation, and fled with his fon, he koew iiot whither ; but fcarce fad he gone 30 or 40 lteps, before his fon, who followed him, fell down ; on which looking back,be {aw his own and his neighbours heafes, in which were 22 perfons in all, covered with a high mountain of fnow. He lifted up his fon, and reflefling that his wife, Lis filer, two children,and all his effe@s weie thas buried, he fainted away ; but foon reviving, got fafe to a friend’s houfe at fome diftauce. Five days after, Jofeph being perfeitly recovered, got upon the fnow, with his fon, and two of his wife’s brothers, to try if he could find the exa& place where his houfe Rood ; but, after many openings made in the fnow, they coald not difcover it. The month of April proving hot, and the foow beginning to f{often, he again ufed his utmoft endeavours to recover his c¢ffe@s, and to bury, as he thought, the remains of his family. He made new opeaings and threw in eanth, to melt the fnow, which oathe z4th of April was greadly diminifhed. He broke through ice fix Englith feet thick, with iron bars, thrult down a long pole and touched the ground, but evening coming on, he defilted. _ His wife’s brother, who lived at Demonte, dieamed that night, that his fifter was ftill alive, and begged him to help her ; the man afeted by his dream, rofe eariy in the mora- ing and went to Bergemoletto, where Jofeph was ; and after refting himfelf a little, went with him to work upon the fnow, where they made another opening, which led them to the houfe thev fearched for ; but finding no decad badies “a e ruins, tuey fought for b was about 240 iLuglifh feet diftant, which having found they heard a cry of, I ldp, oy dess brother” Doing. greatly farprized as well as encouraged by thefe wo'ds, they laboured with all i geace till they had macc « u:ge opening, through which the brother who had the dream immediately went down, where the -filter with an agonizing and feeble voice told him,. ¢ I ¢ have always trufted in God and you, that you would not < forfake me.” 'Thc other brother and the hufband then went down and found fill alive the wife, 2bout 43, the fifter about 35, and a daughter aboat 13 years old. ‘Thelc they raifed on their fhoulders to men above, who pulled them up as it weré from the grave, 2ad carried them to a neighbour- ing houfc : they were unable to walk, arnd fo wailed, that they appeared like mere fkeletoss. They were immediately put to bed, and gruel of rye flsur and a litde buttér was giv- en to recover them, Some days after, the Intendant came to fee them, and found the wife {till unab'c to rife from her bed, or ufe her feet, from the intenfe cold the had endured, and the unecafly pofture heé had been in. The fifter, whofe legs had been bathed with hot wine, could walk with fome difficulty ; and the daughter nceded no further remedies. On the intendant’s interrogating the women, they told him, that on the Morning of the 19th of March they were in the ftable, with a boy about 6 years old, and a girl about 13 ; inthe fame (lable were fix goats, one of which having brought forth two dead kids the night before, they weat to carry her afmall veflel of ryc flour grucl ; there were allo an afls, and 5 or 6 fowls. They were fheliring themfelves in a warm corncr of the flable till the church beil thould ring, intending to attend the (crvice. The wife related,that want- ing to go out of the flable to kindle a fire in the houwfe for ber hufband, who was clearing away the {now from the top of it, the perceived a mafs of fnow breaking down towards the eaft, upon which fhe went back iato the fable, fhut the door and told her filter of it. In lefs than three minutes they heard the roof break over their heads, and alfo part of the ceiling. The fifter advifed to get into the wrack and man- ger, which they did. The afs was tied to the manger, but got loofe by kicking and Rruggling, and threw down the lit- tle veflel, which they found, and afterwards ufed to hold the melted foow, which ferved them for drink. Very fortunately the manger was under the maio prop of the ftable, and fo refifted the weight of the foow. — Their firft care was to know what they had to eat. The filler faid the had: 15 chefnuts in her pocket ; the childrén faid they had breakfafted, and fhould want 6o moré that day. They re- membered there were 30 or 4o cakes in a place near the ftable, and endeavoured to get at them, but were not able for the fnow. They called often for help, but. were heard by pone. Thefifter gave two chefnuts to the wife, and eat two herfelf, and they drank fome fnow. water. The afs was refltlefs and the goats kept blea,tin%for fome days ; after which theWlheard no more of them. . Two of the goats, however, beirieft alive, and near the manger, they felt them, and fourd@Bhat one of them was big, and would kid, as they re- hefmiddle of April ; the other gave milk, d their Jives. During all the time hle, which 4 ed 20O The fecond day, being very bunggy, they eat all theehef- il nuts, and drank what milk the’goat yielded, being near two' pounds a day at firft, but it foon'decreafed. ' The third day they attempted again, but in vain, to get'at the cakes: So refolved to take all poffible are to feed the goats; for jull ' the Tar Bdrrels marked 8. M. above the manger was a hay-loft, whence through a hole'the fitter pulied down hay into ihe rack, and gave itto the goats as long as fhe could reath it, and then when it was beyond her reach, the goats climed upoa her thoulders, and reached it themfelves. On the fixth day the boy fickened, and fix days after de- fired his mother, who ail thit time had held him in ner iap, ' toJay him at his length in the manger. She did fo, aud ta- king bim by the hard, feltit was very cold ; {he then put her hand to his mouth, and finding that cold likewife, fhe gave him a little milk ; theboy thea cried, Ob my jather in the fosw ! Qb father, fa'ber and thén expired. In the mean while the godts milk dimimihed daily,- and the fowls {oon after dying, they cculd no more ditinguih night and day ; but according to their Teckening, the time was near when the other goat fhoald kid, which at’ length they knew was come, by its tries ; the filter helped it, aud théy killed the kid, tofave the milk for their own fubfifance. So'they found that the middie of April was come. Whene- ver they called this goat, it would come and lick their faces and hands, and gave them every day two pounds of milk, on which accaunt they ftill bear the poor creatarc a great af- feltion. They faid, that during all this time, hunger gave them bat litcle uneafinefs, except for the firlt five or fix days ; that their greatefl pain was from the extreme coldnefs of the mel ted faow water, which fell on them, from the ftench of the dead afs, goats, fowls, &c. asd from lice ; but mose than all fromn the very uneafy poftufe they were confied to, the miénger in which they fat fquattipg agaiuft the wall, being no more than three feet four inchés broad. After the firt two or three days they bad no evacuation by ftool. The melied [now water and nnlk were difcharged by arine. The mother faid the had wpever flept, bat ‘the filter and daughter declared they flept asufual. Arefied before the Intendant by the Juid womin the 160h of May 1755 St. TOH N, in A2 TIGU A, Septestiber b: On Suaday lac wivéd ar Englifh “Harboor in-his' Mas ty's S : *(the - Cambridge 'of 80 “Giiosy am (9%, Capt. Tyriel, dil'ioe f, being featon a Cruize) Cammo- Cipt. Baraet, the Bacl Trident of 6 4, Capt dore Moore, who is appointed Commander in Chief of all. . His Majefty’s Ships ftation’d, and to beflation’d at Barbados, and the Leeward I{lands : Several Merchantmen bound for ! thele Iflands; and Jamaica, came under his’ Convoy; the Captains of which unanimoifly ‘declare, that the Commodote took extracrdinary care of the Fleet during the whole Paf- fage : Antigua now flatters herfelf not only with having a faithful Proteor of her ‘I'rade, but alfo a juft and refolute Revenger of thofe Depredations, which have been fo daily committed by the French within a Mile or two of herown Haibours. h With the Fleet arrived the Fawkner Packet, Capt. John Humphry ; who on Thur({day the 1it of Sept. at 7 9'Clock in the Evening, about z; leagues to windward ot Barbados, fell in with a French Schoouner Privateer of 14 carriage guus, and about 140 Men : The Schooner engay’d her for four glafles the fame Evening (almoft yard arm and yard arm daring the whole Time) but was obliged to theer off, being greatly damaged in her Rigging and Sails : At yo o’Clock the next Moianing, fhe attacked the Packer again, who gal- lantly fought her for four glafles more, during which Time the Privateer was often hull'd betwizxt Wind and Water, and had her Forefail and Main Gaft thot away 5 and was forced to {heer off a fecond Time : Atone o’Ciock fthe made a third Attack, (hoifling a bloody Flag and fiewing ber {tink pot at the Bowfprit ¢nd) and ordered the Packet to finke; who wou'd not, but foupht her fur two glafles, in which Time! the Privateer received very great Damage, and loit many of her Men ; this drove the selt from their quarters, and difap- pointed them of all hopes of fucceedinig in a fourth attack on the gallant Capt. Humphry, and his brave Crew, who got {afe into Barbados the next Day about 11 0’Clock. Capt. Huniphry had 8 carriage Guag, and 26 Hands. 2V 1 WILLIFAMSBURG, Otober 7. On Wednefday Evening the Hon. Edmond Adkin, Efq; his Majefty’s Superintendant of Indian Affairs, in the Soud * thern Diftri&, returned from thie Weitern Froatiers of this Dominion, having, we hear, fettied Affdirs with the Chero- kees in thofe Parts entirély to Satisfaétion, and entered into’’ the {fame Reguldrion with them as before with the Catawbas, for their future Afliftance ; {o that if thofe Meafu:es are fup- ported, it may befuppofcd the back Inhabitants, will have little to fear from the Enemy’s Parties for the future. The-. feveral Parties of thofe Indians went Home in the beft Dil- pofition imaginable.. While they were employed in thofe Parts, they fcouted {o near Fort Du Quefne, 'as to'kill the Enemy Iudians in fight of it; by.which the back Tnhabitants were rendered quiet and eafy ; but as foon as thofe Parties : were gone, the Enemy’s Indians'made an Eraption ikt the Settlements on the Scyth Branch of Powtomacl: dntkilled : and carried off many of the Settlers ; which fhews the Nex!t celliy of keepiny up and velioving Patties of ot Fndibns. I .iji‘"noffi i fatawbas who were fent for'tofuccéed’ -4 ) Cime areiy v Foreien and Domeflick. "The New-Hampfhiref GAZETTE, .2 from Wiverpool. « About mqi.éfigueA.ofi' our Cape, 4. to the Southward, tiiey faw a Sloop which had loi her M and had no Body on board : - Her Quarters were painted ¥ a dirty Blue, with a white Scrowl ; fhe was about 70 off ‘Tons Burthen, and was loaded with Deck-Plaok, and,{ 2 1meh o2 HALA DELP HIA, Oficher 202 siok Extraft of a Letter from Annapolis, in-Maryland, Ollobery . #¢.Tis Day Advice came to ‘T'own,. That the Ch‘ém Indians fell in with a Party ofiFrench and Fndians, k their Otlicer, a French Man, and took about 20 Matche "I'hiey have the French Officers Inftructions, the B culars of which is not as yet public. e N'E'W -¥Y O R K, : Ofcber 24. Monday at William Richardfon, a foldier, belonging Capt. Crookfhank’s Independeat Company of Fuzaleers, fiot on Nutten Ifland, for Defertion : Rowland Brow: foidier alfo, was to have been fhot at the fame Time, fo like Crime, but was reprieved at the Place of Executi} it having appeared to the Court Martial, 'that his Inte wis not to defert, but abfented himfelf with no other than to {ee his Wite and: Family. ¢ " In the'Packet came Pafleoger a Seaman ramed I4d Mariner, who was taken at Oiwego : He, in Company Mr. John Walters, of this Place, Robert Ifburn a d {o Philadelphia ; Capt. Rufco, Lieutenant I d Pri with Enfign Ogden,of the New Jerfey Pro 299 more, failed from Quebec the 15:h of Cartel, and arrived at Plymouth,in 28 Days : us, That when he left Canada, There was ooly of Regulars in that Province, and not one ship o Harbour of Quebec ; but in going down the Lawreuace, they met about 20 fail of Tranf; voy of z Men of War and a Frigate, going np, France ; that the brave Col. Peter Schuyler wa Healith, and the great faupport of many [ingl without whofe Afliftance, feveral of them wou. reduced to the greateft Extremities. Capt. Farmg of Mr. Jafpee Farmer, of this City, was likewife Quebec, when our Informant came away, with {everg whofe Names he could not recollett ; and as P &c. . . were very dcarce when he left that Place, 'twas Remainder ofthe Prifoners were tobe fent to Old-H the Fall. : By a' Lettet fom: Uliter County, dated the % we fears (AAE L --YredpeRisy | beiore, = I he farthermoft Houfe from Rochefter, and c/” Y VW.oman that was wafhing at the Door, but fhe im fcreamed out, when another Woman ran to her refcaed her, beat off the Indian, aed . fhut the Do feveral: other Indians came up, fired into the I3 killed two Womep, but they were repulfed by tw: fired oat on them, and, asthey imagined, kilied oo Parcels of Bicod being feen on the Ground aft ticated.—Tis Matter of very great Concern, th flanding the Number of Soldiers we now bave i vince, his Majelty’s Subjels thould be thus favagd er’'d on the Frontiers, and no Provifion made for il tection, The Gunner of the Privateer Brig Mary, Jo Commander, of this Port, who was taken by a Fr gate in the Month of December laft, is come Pz tne General Wall Packet, and acquaints us, Thaf ple on board the Frigate informed Him, thatfome tore they took Captaia Pell, they funk two Privat and a Brig, to the Baltward of Bermuda. [We+ Sloop muft have been the Hardy, Captain Grant Place ; andthe Brig, the Denny, Captain Steel, phnia.’] Sunday the 16th Inft. Capt. Shatford a Deays [rem Providence, with whom came 7 Budden and Morris, who were both takes on i} frot this Pdrt for Jamaica,and carned into Pag them we ledarn, That Captain Badley of this Rhode 1fiand Brig, were both carried in the Mont. Palanqui was returned from a Cruize Conditicn, having, as he faid, met with a Ne gate, that killedhim 18 Men outright, wound and greatly damaged his Malls and Sails ; tf men were to faildrom, Porta: Prince,undesConvay of 26 Guug, about:the Jatter End of September 3 Captains. Crew:énd Dobbs, ;o two Didvaisiis4 were to fail onva Craize from Prgvidence in fivel Capt. Shaiford left that [i{land. 2 B;O $:T 0O N, OQeber 31 We hear fiom Halifax, from goed Autl Centurion.and Nottingham Men of War, {ail'd the 14¢th_Ioftant from thence, for Engia to abaiit forty. Sail of Tranfports ;== That Ad fill remains thére with eight Sailof the Li and-a Fite thipLoT heir Cruizers lopk'd. a few Days béfore, and {aw feventeen Sail.o) theirFop:gallant.mafts fanding ; therefore "ts have not fuffered much in the late Storm, .28 they would" in fuch- an open Harboar.—The fayifome Time jonger at Halifax, and wb will ilgave a Squadron: to guard and 'p - By the Mafteciof.a ¥ eflely whi dayi was 7-hight,iwve are ¢ fail’d, ‘two Flags fifmru,cu: a Brigref9 8 96 thete from: Canaday having 4+ board-about 270 diersiavho had been taken al O near Late B ol 1t}