The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-24

neiRhb0r ana brought Dack an answer Ihas Jug
Messrs. Hunsaker and Callihan gave IT as their
opinion fully fifty persons nave lost their lives
From Messrs Chase 4 Co., who arrived in this
easy case 'n indeed on tuesday AFTERNOON man living
| some three miles from New Ulm came into that
aboas being 0r leaving aone
| at Rome. The storm 80 terrible that no
doctor would venture ont but one promised
| to go the next morning. Efforts made TO in
vile was alone and he must go back. Poor man
| being found about hall way home The next day
tne , Doctor managed to reach the house, where he
| cld and both were frozen dead.
! A FEARFUL RECORD.
on saturday last seventeen collins were taken
out OF New Ulm to bury the dead bodies found in
the immediate vicinity OF that place.
At Lake Heuskey, six miles from Lake Crystal.
tne bodies OF thirteen persons had been found
Six children who had been attending school be-
| tween Fort Ridgley and Beaver Falls. were found
frozen 10 death, the teacher having unwisely
allowed them to leave the schoolroom.
Another school teacher Whose name we hope to
| Tuesday evening until Friday, walking himself a
! nile or more through the storm to get food for
| them.
FROM THE UPPER COUNTRY.
From Mr.. Il. p. Barnum, OF Sank Centre, who
arrived in the city yesterday, we learn the follow
ing particulars
team OF stage horses belonging to Blakely h
Carpenter going from Glennow 70 Morris, driven
office, on Tuesday night. Phelps had arrived at
the station, but the snow blew so fercely and
drifted IN around the stable-dOor fast that two
men could not shovel 1t away so as to get the
open The horses persisted during the night.
da, seven miles northeast of Morris, for load Of
wood. The team was found on Friday frozen No
from
Morris on Tuesday for his home in Scandal Up to
Friday neither man nor team had been heard from
to the woods to cut w wood IL was found on Sun
handle in the snow bank. On digging down the
man was found, still alive, with legs, arms, side
and side OF his face and head badly frozen. No
Mr.. Barnum further informs us that all through
that section Of the State rumors are rife OF the
| great loss OF life and suffering. The storm came
80 unexpectedly that many were caught out and
the roads have been SO blocked up that it s
settlers set He fears tnat the loss of life
| Will be far greater than was at first supposed.
SEVENTEEN MORE DEAD
| special despatch from Alexandria last evening
| gives the follewing:-We have authentic reports
| frozen to death during the great storm OF last
week in Stevens, Grant, Douglass and other coun-
ties. Others are still missing and believed to be
dead Many were crippled for life by the freezing
OF the hands and feet.
From Fargo we learn Of the finding of two more
bodies near Glydon. one was Swede named
Chrlstopherson, and the other young nam named
Berry. The body of Fred Warnke, who lived within
four miles of Henderson, was found on Friday,
within hundred steps OF neighbours house. lie
was in Henderson on Tuesday afternoon with an
OK team, and on his way home got lost 10 the storm
and perished He leaves wife and six children.
The Western Frontier of Minnesota.
From the St. Paul Press, Jan. 1871
AS ntimated in the Press Immediately after the
subsistence of the terrible storm OF last week, the
record of the disasters to life and property result
ing therefrom is thoroughly sickening to con-
template. While every section OF the State con-
tributes a portion Of the narrowing details, the
entire western frontier of Minnesota sends
up return of dead, missing and manned,
which seems more like the carnage OF battle than
the result OF any erratic and wonderful c0mmotion
of the elements. The accounts agree in represent
ing the storm as travelling with remarkable velO-
city, and enveloping those caught in its deadly
meshes almost before they could turn their steps
homeward To Illustrate the power of the wind in
exposed localities the statement is made that
sleighs were overturned and men Frustrated 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 an
pearance and it's tremendous motion-the degree
of cold not being great many preceding it, but
which have not made 1.-THE Of the awful
havoc There Is little room to doubt
That the major portion OF the list of casual
saddening chapters between four O'Clock on that
fatal Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning,
and as but few could be so fOolhardy to venture
on journeys while raging it is reasonable to sup
pose that the deaths and suferings are confined to
those surprised by 1t while at distance from
home.
IN THE MINNESOTA Valley
few well authenticated cases OF freezing
occurred near st. Peter and mention has al
ready been made of them. Gentlemen who returned
here yesterday state that It is yet Impossible to
who have perlshed or become disabled. Narrow
escapes from death and permanent injury are too
it is feared that hundreds OF cattle and horses
have been DESTROYED throughout the line frontier
settlements, extending from the Red River of the
North to the Missouri.
TIIIRTY-FoUR VICTIMS
=. DR.; Drake, in charge OF the telegraph Office at
Mankato, stated on Sunday that the astounding
total OF thirty -four persons had been returned as
frozen to death in the settlements along the line OF
the st. Paul and Sioux City alone during the preva-
lence of the storm, while a number OF additional
are reported missing. whose fates unknown.
New Ulm reports present scene which cannot
he adequately pictured. man who left Nicollet
for New Ulm at two O'Clock on Tuesday afternoon
was found frozen dead in his sleigh.
Two more are reported 20 have been found dead
Another Is supposed to be lost His team came
home without him. 1t is feared that many more
hundred teams in New Ulm that started ont in
various directions for home as the storm came on.
A schooboy at New Ulm, left school about three
O'Clock on Tuesday, and on Friday afternoon the
body Of the poor lad was found on the wind-beaten
prairie, eight miles from his Borrowing home.
Another man 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 Geographic dispatches and Others
by private individuals Many Of these are undoubt-
eddy exaggerated, but bare facts are enough to
horrify and appal.
The storm IN the vicinity OF Litchhed is thus
described In the last issue OF the LeG1eT:-"About
noon the rain changed to snow, but the air was
still warm and damp, with the wind in
the south. About three O'Clock the wind
changed 10 the north. In less than twenty min
utes II changed from warm Spring weather to
the worst wintry storm we ever Witnessed The
wind blew perfect hurricane, and snow filed the
ar SO that person coul1 not see more than twenty
ieeL Inc morning being so pleasant many
farmers were in town. and many OF them
started ioI home before the storm came up,