Accidents > Awful phenomena of nature -- snow storms, third of March and twenty-third April, 1827

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beginning. The above detail is perfectly accu¬
rate, so far as it goes, and has been taken from
a letter written by the Rev. A H
minister, Kilmarnock. A woman, whose name
we have not learnt, but who was housekeeper to
the schoolmaster at Muirkirk, dropped down
dead while looking at the men who were cutting
the snow. H H , residing near Heath-
wood, perished on the 2nd, on CorrieCommon, and
at no great distance from her own house. She
had been at Waterbeck, and her body was not
discovered till the Monday following. In the
course of Sabbath one of her sons passed and
repassed the spot where she lay, but the vital
spark had previously fled, and from the depth
of the snow, no part of her body was visible.
Two women, it is said, were dug out of a wreath
near Kellhead toll-bar, and there is a report of
a woman having fallen a victim to the storm,
somewhere between Annan and Lockerby,
The Carlisle Patriot of Saturday states, that
“a woman belonging to Longtown, lost her life
in the «now. She had been to Springfield after
smuggled whisky, and was relieved of her bur¬
den by an Excise officer. Not disheartened,
she returned for more; and on her way home¬
wards, wandered out of her road upon Solway
Moss, and perished. She was found on the
ground, her head on her umbrella, and two blad¬
ders of contraband spirits lying beside her.” It
is even said that two shepherds perished in the
parish of Durrisdeer, and that one respectable