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A Frightful Death-list

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Day
20
Month
January
Year
1888
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Public Domain
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St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 16. - More than seventy people were known to bave perished tn the blizzard oL two days ago in Dakota and northern Minnesota. How many more than that can not be told uutil the blockade iB raised trom many small place3 with which there 3 no communication by telegraph Reporta also indícate that a large nmnber of persons, in many or most cases childret on their w'ay to school, ware serioaaly troten, trat not fatally. Some who wera at flrst ported as lost and then rescued have sinco Sed. The roads are all blocked, and oldmera in the territory, who have seen blizïards bef ore, say tbat there must of necessity be a degree of suffering from cold, and in ome cases al most starvation, that can notbe enessed by the rest of the world, and of which there will be no record made. The death list, so f ar aa reported, is as follows: In Dakota- Erail Gilbertson at Hitchcock; a Sioux Falls man, two sons of VVilliam Driver at Raymond ; two Mitchell youtbs, Brama Lámar, Carrie Auman, William C. Gathwaite, Cora Custis at Delamere; Mr. Davis and son, W. B. Headly at Barkston; Rowland Chambers, T. E. Gelkerson and James Newcomb'a son at Huron; Frank and William Nerison at Virgil; Munger near Mitchell; an unknown man near Aberdeen; a teacher and two of her pupils at mere; a 12-year-old son of John Walsh near Fulda; Mrs. Devine, Adam Gerner and J. W. Joslee at Iroquois; GeorLe Alien, Jr., nd Joseph Auderson at Mitchell; four farmers, two Bridgewater men, Ëmil Gilman, Lewis Merriman and son at Hitchcock; Misa Jacobson Gin le. G. Grundstrom, three nnknown mea, two children of Joseph Hulchinson, three Tyndall people, two Wakonda giris, Jacób Krutz, an unknown teacher, J. Paine at Bowdle; Peter Parkune at Roscoe; o. White Lake man, four school children, James Bmith and two sons at Minot. In Minnesota- John Loy at Luverne; Mrs. Knutson. ■ In Iowa- Two children of Mre. Fitzgeraid at Inwood; two boys; an unknown man at Sioux City. In Nebraska- Child of John Dihnger at David City; Fred Eíler, Wexwell Beek, and ayoung lady at Omaha; Mrs. P. Smith, at Lincoln; John Sparks, of Gage county; EinHy Grossman, of Peru; Mrs. Chapman and her two little grandchildren, at Stnart; Mr. Mason, near Stuart; Matthews, near Bntton; achild named Bodine. Others are reportad lost, and a number of escapes with timen feet and hands are reported. Iu Montana- Palrick Hanley, at Marysrille; William Overman, at Belgrnde. In Kansas- James Kennedy, in Sherman ónnty. Tom Anderson, a farmer of Tracy, Minn., is missing. . Belgrado, M. T., reports rumora ef cowboys f reezing in the Madison valley. Saturday night and Sunday were exeeedingly cold all over the northwe3t. At Brainerd it was 58 below ac S o'clock Sunday mornine: at Bird Island. Minn., 38 below; at Faribault, Minn., 47 below; at Duluth, 34 below; at Clearwater, Minn., 43 below. The opening of all tbe blockaded roads all over the noithwest bas begun in earnest, andgood progress is being made, despite the colrt. Trains will ba running as usual in a day or so. ■ The stories that come of the death of tnes) people are in most cases short, nd there is a nmilarity about theni that makes one's blood chili. "Found frozen to death" is about all there is to be said. for, except in a few inïtances where several uave been overtaken by the blizzard, all have met the same fate. Searching parties havd been out from probably COÜ towns in Dakota and northern Minnesota, and the prompt actiou that seems to have beon taken, bas prevented the fatality Hst frorn being several times ita present lBngth. Some who have been rescuetl teil of the heroic deaths of their companious. This was the case at Hnron when Robert Chambers deliberately took oLE his own clothing to wrap it around his 9-year-old boy to keej hitn from freezing. The two spent a night in the snow, and the father died an hout before help carne to the boy, Johnnie, wb was found not severely frozen next morning. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 17.- The Journai's special from Aberdeen, D. T., says: Bessie Br.ansfield, a pretty lyear-old teacher, left school during the storm to go to a farmer's house tbirty yards distant Her dead body was found nearly a mile from the ctaool-hotise. Four children f roze iu a schoolhonse at Mellette. The teacher left them to get assistance, and her body has not ynt been found. Miss Steubierner, another teacher, twelve miles northeast of Aberdeen, was out all night in the blizzard, and wben found she was barely alivo, and "died shortly afterward. William Morrell, a5J-year-old farm laborer, ix miles west, went out of the house Thursday evening to a few rods to the bara He became confused and was found dead two milBs awav. H. 8. Chapin, of olis, collector for a tbreshiug-maehine flrtn, left Northville near Abordeen, Thursday morning with a liverymrfn to visit farmers near bv. They have not been heard from and are probably dead. O. T. Owens and wife, of Wentworth, were lost on the prairie Pridav night. ïbey were out echteen hours, and wheu fouud ilrs. Owens was dead and her nusband badly frowu. He will survive. A special from Pierre, D. T., says: It isreported tbat a woman and child were froïon to deatb near Canning, bnt thi is not yet conflrmed. No trains have moved at Pierre Bince Thursday. A Mandan, D. T., special saya that a mail driver was f roze i batwe-n Njw Salem and Stanton. The three-day blockade on the Northern Pacific was raiad Móndny morning. The Journai's rsviseii list of b izzard fatalities shows: Ni.iety-seven in Dakota; tliirteen in Minnasota; six in Iowa; seventepn in Nebraska, and two n M mtanaj total, 13.5, beaklps flity-five n-ported missing. Puestos, Minn., Jan. lfi. - It is reported heve tli.it. a Swo.Jo, livinj twoniy mile- irom here, kilk'd his wi;'e and saven chihlren by chopping tlieir heads off witli a bioad-ax, and th tt a Loy of 14 jumpeii from au up-stair9 window and escaped. The mau's name waa Henry Olstrom, and the cause of the deed was tliat Oistrom found that all the family would have to perisn from lack of fooil and fuel iu the Litterly cold weather.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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