Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-02-01
rur,yow STORM IN MINNESOTA

loss OF lie incident 10 the leIIloIe Sho"
storm that swept over the Northwest.
beginning so suddenly on the 7th oil
January, and lasting tifty-toW hours,
have from time been published. As YET
the full destructive effects of the storm
have not been aScertained, but luuS'"S
from the number of persons who are
known to be missing, it Is supposed
from two hundred and fifty TO ,hrte
hundred persons were frozen TO y, oe 9,h
- MINNESOTA between Tuesday lhe '','
=, Iannary and Friday, the ION. "A
ol D'"",, of the New York Herald
Co. ,.;sirnd the scene of the disasters.
l', "I atter alludiug to the contrast OF
COMPLAINTS conn., in the Eastern cities OF tenn
' oo Inconvenience of travel 10y the
Po't storms to the terrible realities on
tEo frozen fields Of Minnesota, gives
|,ronbic recital of the general facts con-
,S7,,.tsJ with the storm in the latter re-
zion. He says:
Tuesday. the 9TH, was lovely and
mild day. The sun was bright and the
air balmy. Every pulse OF the country
was astir under the genial inhuence,and
the wild SWAPS that changed overhead
once or twice from their meres must
have seen the prairie roads alive with
teams. The farmers were all ont at the
nearest settlement. They were getting
short of fuel; there was but a handful
Of flour ct the bottom Of the barrel, not
a scrap of meat was left But the SHOWS
had ceased, there shaggy little horses
were well again,so every farmer hitched
his team for the town. In the little
cottages of wood were women and chill
dyen: the school houses weretullot little
ones. Such was the country, thus Its
jewellers, when the blow fell.
At Winnebago City there were sixty
teams assembled; scores were at New
Tim. All along from Albert Lea and
Blue Earth, by Window, Mankota,clear
nm to Breckenridge Belle Prairie and
Daluth, the people were scattered dc
liy red into the hands of the storm.
Between twelve and two o'clock on
Tuesday the sky turned liyid, the sun
became merely dull brazen ing, the
south wind chopped round rapidly and
became cold, aad in very few m nutes
was laden Will fine frozen snowdrlS
that stunc Ike a shower Of needles,
knowing what this hurricane BODIED
men leaped into their slcighS, and win
voice and lash urged their covering
horses out into IL. storm. Iheu. the
work OF death began. For more than
ft,y hours, till late on Thursday, the
freezing wind and falling SHOW contln-
ued. Ii was no, steady fill OF snow,
Int
ROWLING HUINCANE.
The wind sometimes attaining a speed
of twenty-cight, thirty or thirty-two
miles. The snow came in ilful hwrleS,
with A Wild screech and q singing whlz.
The thermometer fell steadily. till at
CbampIa;u it registered ftty-tour de
,.recs below zero. At other places the
mercury or spirit marked from eight to
f,rtv.two degrees below. Some Of the
farmers who set ont soon found that II
they valued life they must turn back
Tnry were developed in sheets Of snow
that blinded them The wind came so
fe,ccly that they we're fam to sop and
turn round I'LL momentary !HlI came;
The road,-why the level prairie was all
road now, without one track Of wheel
or runner to indicate the path OF safety
Here follows a description OF the
manner in which those away from home
were blinded and driven in circesronnG
the prairie, until the suffering horses
,.afps,d 10 do their work, and men and
teams persisted in the rapidly drifting
storm. The families at home waiting
IN the cold. without fuel, and the snow
covering their small housesuntll women
and children were frozen, is also veri-
table and sad picture Of the correspon,
dent. He closes with statement OF
the number supposed to be lost
TIE DEATH ROLL
cannot vet be made up with any reason
able decree of certainty. We are only
now getting detailed reports from the
nearest settlements, and it will be fully
s. week ere these are so complete as to
be trustworthy. Many OF the missing
will not be found till spring, but 1t Is
safe to set down all the missing as dead.
After carefully collating the reports re-
ceiyed thus far. and making all allow
ance for the remaining parts OF the
State. | am led to conclude that the loss
of life in Minnesota viii range from TWO
hundred and fifty to three hundred. 1t
il lust possible, though not probable,
that the higher figure may be reached
Almost all these are men, and the very
lar1e proportion OF them fathers of fam
lies in slraitened circumstances. The
surviving widows and children will thus
be left without means of support of any
description. The charitable of the East
will here find an object for their sympa-
thies
! letter to the New York Herald,
dated Winona, Minnesota, gives addi-
tional particulars OF the terrible effects
of the great SNOW storm Ill that section.
We extract the following:
One of the saddest incidents is report
cd from Fort Ridgely. The schoolmis-
tress discharged her scholars, telling
them to run home. Some escaped with
bnt SLIGHT injuries, but seven of the little
ones lost their way in she binding driiS
and were found dead, one with his books
under his arm and his little foot lifted