The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1873-01-25
THE SHOWS IN THE WEST.
4 FRIGHrFU1 STORM IN MINNESOTA.

Il FRIGHTFUL STORM IN NMINNESOT4.
Constant Snow for Fifty Hours-Over
Three Hundred Lives Lost-Men, ~o-
men. Children and Teams Frozen to
Death.
Some particulars of the suffering and loss OF
life incident to The terrible snow storm that
swept over the Northwest, beginning 80 sud-
denly on the 9Th of January, and lasting fifty
four hours, have from time 10 time been pub.
llshed in The NEWS. AS yet The full destruc-
live effects of the storm have not been ascer-
tanned. bn Judging from the number OF persons
who are known to be missing, It s supposed
that from two hundred and fifty to three hun
dred persons were frozen to death 10 Mimi
sofa between Tuesday, the 7th oil January,
and riday, the 10Th. A correspondent OF the
New York Herald has visited the scene OF the
disasters, and, after alludiDg to the contrast
of complaints In the Eastern cities of tempo
rary inconvenience of travel by the recent
storms TO the terrible realities on the frozen
fields of Minnesota, gives graphic recital OF
the general facts connected with the storm IN
The latter region. He says:
Tuesday, the 7th, was lovely and mild day.
The sun was bright and the air balmy. Every
pulse of the country was astir under the ge,
rIal influence, and the wild swans that Changed
overhead once or twice from their meres must
have seen the prairie roads alive wiln teams.
The farmers we're all out at the nearest settle
ment. They were getting short OF fuel; mere
was but q handful of -four at the oottom ci
the barrel, not scrap OF meat was lelI. but
the SHOWS had ceased, their shaggy ntlle
horses we're we'll again, 80 every farmer
hitched hls team for the town. In the little
cottages OF wood were women and children;
the school houses we're full OF little ones.
Such was the country, thus Its dWellers, Wnen
AZ Wlnnebago City there were sixty teams
assembled; scores were at New Ulm. All aiong
from Albert Lea and Blue Earth, 6y Wlnnom.
Mankato, clear up to BreckinrlGge, Belle
Prairie and Duluth, the people were sca''ereu'
delivered into the hands OF the storm.
Between twelve and two o'clock on Tues
day the sky turned llvld, and the sun became
merely q dull brazen ring. the soutn WHO
chopped round rapidly and became cold, and
In very few minutes was laden Win very
fue snowdrifts that stung IKE snoWe. VI
needles. Knowing what this hurricane oodeo,
and lash urged their covering horses out lnlo
the storm. Then the work Of dealh began
For more than fifty houre, LII late on Thurs
day. The freezing wind and falling snow con
tInued, IL was not steady fall OF snow, but
HowLISa HURRICANE,
tho wind sometimes attalRing speed @
twenty.eight, thirty or thlrly-two miles. Tne
snow came In hLful furries: with Wlle
attn optp xryhl1 Tho thQrm0Qlo
ter fell steadily, iii at Champlain 1t registered
ifty.four degrees below zero. AT other riacei
the mercury or spirit marked from eight u
forty-Lwo degrees below. Some OF the farmer
who set ont sooG found that. II they valued
life thew must turn back. They were en-
yeloped in sheets of snow that blinded them
The wind came 80 fercely that they were lalI
to stop and turn round till momentary lul
came. The road-why, the level prairie wal
all road now. without one track Of wheel o.
runner 10 Indicate the path Of safety.
Here follows description of the manner IL
which those away from home were blinded
and driven In circles around the prairie, un
til The suffering horses refused TO 90 thei
work. and men and teams perished In tn
rapidly drlfling storm. The families at hom
waiting 10 the cold, Without fuel, and tn
snow covering their small houses, until
women and children we're frozen, is also
vertable and sad picture of the correspon
dent He closes with statement Of tn
number supposed TO be lost.
THE DEATH BOIL
cannot vet bs made up with any reasonable dc
gree of certainty. We are only now getting dc
tailed reports from the nearest settlements
\ 81 10 ELL xuaaL thpaa rom
plete as to be trustworthy. Many OF the miss
ing will not be found till spring, but 1t ls SAT-
to act down all the missing as dead. ATE
carefully colating the various reports received
tbus far. and making all allowance for the re
naming parts Of the state, am led TO COD
olude that the loss of life in Minnesota vii
range from two hundred and fifty to three hun
dred. It is just possible, though not probable
that the higher figure may Do reached. Amos
all OF these are men, and the very large pro
portlon of them fathers of families in stralten
cd circumstances. The surviving widows ant
children will thus be left without means
support Of any description. The charitable o
tbe East will here find an object for thel
sympathies.
A Second Edition--The Severest Storm
ofthe season-- Four inches OF Snow ir
Gotham.
CHICAGO, January "a.
The storm, which is now subsiding, was I'M
severest OF the season. Energetic efforts art
making to reopen communication in ever!
direction. o,
The snow storm compels the trains to cease
running. ,s.
The storm continued all night, and fou
inches of snow was on the ground this morn
Ing. Sleet is now falling.