The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-02-06

m sad and gloomy chapter.
n FURTHER DETAILS. A. Bore
of Esq, Register of Deeds of LIE Seu
r. county, states that two brothers liz
,e ing in the timber of Sibley count
c. lost forty head of cattle. In place:
,e barns and sheds were entirely covel
10 ed by the immense drifts, and th
re cattle finding shelter in them hav
It since been released by cutting dow
# through the roofs of the buildings
If and pulling them out through tn
q holes.
r Deputy q. S. Marshal Cleveland
!, was out on the line of the Sioux Cit.
+ road during the storm, and says tina
no attempted description can do il
d justice or adequately picture its fe
/ rocity or power. He mentioned the
O case of an unfortunate mother living
at Wisner's Grove, Faribault county
, whose anxiety for the safety of he1
+ child, absent at school, induced her to
brave the terrible elements for the
purpose of shielding it from danger.
She left home and started for the
school house, but nothing more was
heard of her until her dead body was
found in the snow some distance
from her home.
A man by the name of Thomas
OConnell, while endeavoring to cross
High Island Lake, in Sibley county,
was frozen to death, as was also one
yoke of oxen. A man by the name
of Plaff had twelve head of cattle
frozen to death in this county. An
other man by the name of Oleville
lost six head, and another lost four
head
A young man named Robert Kirk,
residing in the town of Lincoln, Blue
Earth county, froze to death in the
late storm. He had been after wood
with yoke of cattle, and nearly
reached home, when it is probable
that the cattle either would not or
could not face the wind and turned
away from home.
One of the saddest chapters in the
history of that polar visitation, is the
reported death from freezing of seven
little school children near Fort Ridge
ly, which occurred while they were
endeavoring to return homeward in
the furious storm. Without strength
to successfully resist the overwhelm-
ing sweep of the wind or the blind
ing snow which met them from every
point, their struggles could have been
only Of brief, sad duration.
Rumors are also current that twen-
ty-four men have been found frozen
dead in the vicinity of Sleepy Eve
Lake, on the Winona and st. Peter
road, and nine in the vicinity. of Ma
della, but it is hoped that these ru.
mors are generally exaggerations of
some fact In each case.
MIR. Kennedy also mentions the
death Of three brothers residing near
Fort Ridgely, but whose names he I
was unable to recollect. 1t appears
that they were together on Tuesday,
engaged in hauling grain, the wealth
er being considered unusually favor
able for such work. While. thus en- {
ployed, the storm broke upon them {
IN all its destructive fury, and know i
ing that resistance to it on the open |
prairie might involve disastrous or fl i
tal consequences, they sought shelter
N their grain cribs situated in an {
open field. Here they remained and '
lied together, and here their stiffen-
ed bodies were found after their de- c
;troyer had become satiated with the I
wreck and death which followed inits
wake. \
Along the Sioux City road the
lumber of frozen west of Mankato
oots up a total of twenty-six, as fol- :
ows: Lake Crystal, two; Madelia,
i've; st. James, ten; Mountain Lake, A
NO; Window, three; Heron Lake and
Northington, three. These are Civ
N as reliable. All the above nemed =
POINTS report number of persons t,
till missing. n
A report received at Mankato on Q
Ionday night from the Minnesota o
falls, says that eleven persons have r r
zen found frozen to death. Seven h
women, two men and al
wo children, were found in a sleigh, tt
cad. hi
A report from Redwood Falls says -
* persons were frozen to death as +,,
II as heard from in that neighbor- re
ood. OF
Eight people are known to have u
cen frozen to death at Morris; and te
X or eight others have suffered the Oh
lme fate throughout the country. +;
wo men were found near ST. Peter, tn
tting upright in sleigh, frozen stiff, fe
nd wrapped in buffalo robes. re
John Jones, Jr., of Butternut Val pc
y, started for home from Lake Crys- ", w.
j, with an OK team. After going ed
,me distance, the cattle refused to
0 further, when he left them and frc
cling his way along fence, he final
reached a straw stack, and dug his na
ay into it. He then dug a place NJ,
rye enough to stand in and exercise ia,
mself, and in that way passed the sci
ght, only freezing his hands and one mt
ot slightly. fe'
W. S. Hughes, of Butternut valley, dr.
I'd another gentleman were caught, l-> r
1T, lost their way, and both dug in pie
a straw stack and saved their lives, flo
1t freezing their feet slightly. his