The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1873-01-19
OUR ARCTIC ZONE.
ADDITIONAL AND DISTRESS.
ING DETAILS OF THE
GREAT STORM IN
MINNESOTA.
THE IMMENSE LOSS OF LIFE IN
THE MINNESOTA VALLEY.
from the st. Paul Press, Jan. IA. I

| From the st. Paul Press, Jan. ii.
| AS intimated in the Press Immediately
after the subsidence Of the terrible storm
of last week, the record Of the disasters to
life and property resulting therefrom is
thoroughly sickening to contemplate.
While every section of the state contrib
utes u portion of the narrowing details,
the entire western frontier of Minnesota
sends up return Of dead, missing and
manned, which seems more like the earn
age Of battle than the result of any erratic
and wonderful commotion OF the elements.
| The accounts agree in representing the
| storm as travelling with remarkable
velocity, and enveloping those caught in
its deadly meshes, almost before they
could turn their steps homeward. To IL
lustrate the power of the wind in exposed
| localities, tho statement is made that
| sleighs were overturned and men prostra.
| ted as though they were nothing more
than straws in the path OF the gale. The
destruction Of life is greatly attributable
to the suddenness of its appearance and its
tremendous commotion--the degree of
cold not being so great as many preceding
it, but which have not made q 1.-THE f the
awful havoc. There is little room to
doubt that the major portion of the list of
/
its saddening chapters, between o clock
on that fatal Tuesday afternoon, and
Wednesday morning, and as but few could
be so foolhardy as to venture on journeys
while it was raging, it is reasonable to
suppose that the deaths and sutierings arc
confined to those surprised by it while at
| "A distance from home.
IN THE MINNESOTA VALLEY.
| A few authenticated cases of freezing
| occurred near st. Peter, and mention has
already been made of them. Gentlemen
who returned here yesterday state that it
| is yet impossible to mako anything like u
| correct estimate of those who persisted or
became disabled Narrow escapes from
| death or permanent injury are too numer-
Gus for more than n general reference, and
it is feared that hundreds Of cattle and
horses havo been destroyed throughout
the line of frontier settlements, extending
| from the Red River of the North to the
Missouri.
DIR. Drake, in charge of the telegraph
| office at Mankato, stated on Sunday that
the astounding total Of thirty-f)ur persons
had been returned as frozen to death in
the settlements along the line Of the st.
Paul and Sioux City alone, during the
prevalence Of the storm, while number
Of additional are reported missing whose
fates are unknown.
New Ulm reports present scene
which cannot be adequately pictured. A
man who left Niccollet for New Ulm at 2
| p. M. on Tuesday was found frozen dead
in his sleigh.
Another man was found frozen, stand
ing by his barn door near Ulm.
Two men are reported to have been
| fNpp lnal Ia l.
lost. His team came home without him
1t 10 feared that many more fatal cases will
be reported as there were over two hun.
dred teams in New Ulm that started out in
various directions for home, as the storm
came on.
| A school boy at New Ulm left school
about three o'clock Tuesday, and on FRI
day afternoon the body of the poor lad
was found on the wind-beaten prairies s
miles from its Borrowing home. Another
man was found dead on the railroad track
between St. Peter and New Ulm.
THE ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC.
A number of cases of freezing have
been reported on the main line of the st.
Paul and Pacific road--some of them in
telegraphic dispatches, and others by pri-
vate individuals. Many of these are I'M
enought TO horribly and appal. The storm
in the vicinity of Litchfeld is thus de-
scribed in the last issue of the Ledger
About noon the rain changed to snow
but the air was still warm and damp with
the wind in the south. About 9 o'clock
the wind changed to the north. In lees than
twenty minutes it changed from warm
spring weather to the worst wintry storm
| We ever witnessed The wind blew , mar
feet hurricane, and tho snow filed the mir
SO that person could not see more than
twenty feet. The morning being so pleas
ant, many farmers were in town, and
many o! them started for home before tho
storm came up, and doubtless suffered,
many perhaps being frozen, for it seemed
as though II were impossible for man to
be out IN the storm for half an hour with
out freezing TO death. Those who were in
town when the storm set in remained,
there being a dozen or fifteen Scandinayi-
ans, who slept in Heard's store, besides
many who stopped at the hotels and other
places in the village"
Among the cases reported last evening
by gentlemen arriving from the interior
OF the state, are the following; Mr.. w.
o. Clarke, travelling agent for 7. +. Nc
Julian, weathered the storm at II station
near Alexandria, and pronounces it as
furious beyond description. Between
Alexandria ana Fergus Falls, eight per-
sons are reported frozen. Cattle have
been found dead or buried in drifts, whose
: owners are still missing One woman
living near Alexandria remained two
nights and one day in sleigh and wa,
:. alive, but 80 terribly frozen that death was