The Athens Post

TERRIBLE WEATHER IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.

The news from Fraser River, brought by the Steamship Quaker City, represents the weather in that region as having been terrible in the extreme. A telegraphic abstract in the Clipper, has already informed us that miners were frozen and frost-bitten by scores, and many of them frozen to death. The details corroborate every word of that report, and though we have as yet no personal narrative from any of the sufferers, the reader is presented with a scene of distress which has seldom had a parallel. We quote from the Victoria Gazette of the 15th ultimo, as follows:

Great suffering has been experienced by the miners coming down. A party of about 120 came down the river in canoes, until they struck the ice below the mouth of Harrison river. They then started for Langley, overland, supposing it 45 miles distant. The distance was greater. A trail had to be made over high mountains, through ten inches of snow; sloughs, waist deep, were waded, the cold being intense, and the underbrush thick, and passed with difficulty. They had only one day's provisions, and were three days without provisions. Many were frost-bitten. A Dutchman and wife, name unknown, were frozen to death. Completely exhausted many sat down to die. Mr. Bryant, late Superintendent of Lillooet mail, gave up four miles from Langley, and advised his son to go on. He also gave out; two miles farther on. Geo. French, a hardy pioneer, late Lillooet mail surveyor, formerly surveyor of Butte county, laid down, worn out with toil. When hope was waning fast, the whistle of the steamer Enterprise, which had got out of the ice, was heard, and they were saved, and carried to Langley. Rumors are conflicting as to the number of deaths. Three men are said to have been found frozen to death on the river in a canoe.—Names unknown.

A man who came direct from Fort Hope, tells us that on Saturday night last, he camped at the cabin of a miner named Fagn, about 15 miles below Hope. He says there are upwards of 100 men there who had been caught on the river, and had sought this cabin for protection against the inclemency of the weather.