The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-01-24

WlNoNA. MINI. JunuaIy 1S.-While your
eastern world on the verge Of the Glll!
stream has been lifting the hands of DIES pair
and voice Of protest over a snowfall which
made locomoton Oh foot unpleasant and BY
horse cars impossible for Il day or two, and
while the whole country has been thrilling
with horror at the iacremaion Of few bap-
less workwomen in n finder box. up here.
on the siladeleSs and shelterlcsS prariCs,
"thcre bath been wrought q deed OF dread
FIJI note" Human suffering which parallels
that endured by the flted Franklin has been
Of hourly occurrence, and lives have been
taken as free as in battle, but with attendant
circumstances Infinitely more tragic than
wait on the parting OF the soul which is rent
from the manglcd llcsh by shot Or steel
Up to that fatal Tuesday, at whose men
ton many q heart shall ache in Minnesota
for years 10 come, there had been winter
weather of the usual sort---clclr, cold, with
occasional storms OF snow, some OF which
had seriously blockadcd the railroads and
induced considerable suffering from scarcity
OF fuel. The cpizooty had for soEIe timt
laid an embargo on travel. Our great north
western country must not he considered 70
I've like Canada, Il land OF bills and valleys,
thickly clad with pine forests. \ great table.
land, of considerable altitude, lying open to
the winds, that sweep down from the North
err Sea 1T intervals
ICY AS THE BREATH OF DEATH,
with an occasional tree, semi-occasional
clump Of trees, or q still rarer belt of forest
along water course, and an atmosphere dry
and rare-such is the Northwest. 1t is
largely settled by immigrants from Scandi-
nayia, poor and thrifty folk, whose wooden
houses stand singly OF in little hamlets, mark
ing the prairie at every few miles. Tue
country is fertile, and in summer smiles as
the garden of the Lord; but in winter it pre-
sents bleak face OF snow to clcudleSs blue
sky.
Tuesday the 18th was lovely and mild
day. The sun was bright and the air balmy.
Every pulse of the country WAS astir under
the genial influence, aud the wild swans that
changed overhead once or tWicc from their
mercs must have seen the prairie roads alive
with teams. The farmers were all out at
the nearest settlement. They were getting
short OF fuel; there was but 4 handful OF
flour at the bottom of the barrel, not scrap
of meat was left. But the SHOWS had ceased,
their shaggy little horses were we'll again, 80
every farmer hitchea his team for the town.
In the little cottages OF wood We're women
aud children; the schoolhorses were full OF
little ones. Such was the country, thus It's
jewellers, when the blow fell. Nature would
seem to have arrogated to herself all the
savage attributes which had marked her frs,
children there, their careful and patient
watch for an easy opportunity, and their
sudden and relentless onslaught.
THE STORM WAS TURNED SIOUX.
At Winebago City there were sixty teams
assembled; scores were at New Ulm. AT
along from Albert Lea and Blue Earth, by
Window, Mankato, clear up to Breckenridge
Belle Prairie md Duluth, the people wers
scattered, delivered into the hands of the
storm.
Between u and O'Clock OH Tuesday tho
sky turned lirid, the sun became merely 4
dull! brazen ring, tho south wind chopped
round rapidly and became cold, and In q yer,
few minutes was laden with fine frozen snow
drift that stung like snower of needles. 81
utterly unprepared were the people forth,
change In the weather, and 50 suddenly die
1t come upon them, that one man at Whine
baso City describes it as $ if man elappet
hh hanas-so, and the anow eame in oul