Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1873-02-03
THE STORM IN IOWA AND MIN.
NESOTA.

we must make large allowances for ex
aggerations we must put on record some
of the statements of reporters. The fol-
lowing will be read with painful inter
est. A dispatch from Winona. Mlnn.,
dated goth ult., says:
Some idea of the depth of the snow
drifts may be formed when we consider
that on Wednesday the snow was piled
so high about freig train, blockaded
on the Davenport and St. Paul Railroad,
near Delaware Center, that teams drove
right over the cars. Z pom the same line
there are drifts 5000 feet long and fit.
teen feet deep Blue Earth men could
pass on foot over the telegraph wires,
and at New Ulm, in one drift was man
frozen to death while sitting on the seat
of his sleigh, his head being fully five
feet under the surface.
SEVEN SCHOOL CHILDREN FROZEN.
One of the saddest incidents is report
ed from Fort Ridgeley. The schoolmis-
tress discharged her scholars telling
them to run home. Some escaped with
but slight injuries, but seven of the lit
tie ones lost their way in the binding
drifts and were found dead, one with his
books under his arm, and his little foot
lifted for step-a step which had proved
beyond the confines of life. Two others
were found frozen to death in each 9TH
ers' arms tears, which the bitter cold
or the near approach of death had wrung
from them, standing in little beads of
ice on their innocent cheeks. Hugh
Jones, teacher, near New Ulm, kept
the forty scholars of his school in the
schoolhouse from Tuesday till Friday,
risking his life, like practical, unselfsh
hero, every day in two-mile tramp
| through drifts four or five feet deep to
| get food for them.
The above with some statements which
follow seem fabulous Are they true p
A stage left Madelia for St James,
having eight passengers and driver
On Wednesday morning, not having ar
rived. search was made for it. 1t was
found on the road. the horses frozen tc
death, the driver grinning corpse or
the seat. with the reins still IN his hands,
and eight bundles of robes and clothes
in the bottom of the sleigh, each of which
contained soulless lump of icy flesh.
Mr. A. H. Jenkins, of the Cleveland
Ohio, Bridge Company, who was super
intending the building of an iron bridge
at Rock Rapids, Iowa, was travelling BY
stage thence to Sibley. Arriving at thu
latter place the other passengers olsen
barked. He did not stir. They called
him, they touched him, and 10 dealt
had ridden with them for some time
and the body was already rigid. A
Oshawa, about hundred yards from tn
railroad station, were found two horse
harnessed to cutter in which, sittin,
bolt upright, were two men dressed il
warm buffalo coats. They were frozel
stiff and dead. John Hagameyer, o
Elisabeth, started to 90 from his hous
to his blacksmith shop, 80 yards away
He was found two miles distant, froze
to death. At Fort Ridgeley three broth
ers were hauling grain when the storm
came on them. They sought shelter i
their grain cribs in an open field. Al
three were found there dead. Mr.. lie
and his son, aged thirteen, left his hcus
near Sioux City, on Tuesday for loa
of wood. On. Friday they were foun
about eighty yards apart. Evidentl
they had freed their cattle and then gon
on, installing their way. Both wer
poorly clad. The boys arms were eros
sed, as if he had tried to keep his but
tonless coat closed The faithful do
was found beside his dead master. 4
widow is left destitute with four chi
dren, the oldest only seven years DID,
Near Madelia a man unhitched his teal
and went to search for house. leavin
his wife in the sleigh. She became an,
ious, and followed him.
Both were frozen to death. A Mr.. Tel
Minis, his son and his sons wife starte
from Fergus Falls for Elizabeth. Becon
: ing locked in a drift the men took tn
mules and went for assistance, leaving tt
woman in the sleigh Father and son wei
frozen to death, and the woman cannt
recover. A couple just married were q
their way home, to Lemars, when tt
storm overlook them. They turned tt
horse loose and overset the sleigh, the
crawled under it and wrapped then
6 selves in the robes 1t was strang
bridal room the box of sleigh in
, drift out on the prairie, but they passe
two days and two nights there, and we
finally rescued alive, though badly fir
zen. A Mrs. Fox, with husband an
child. and a cousin named Chase,
Lyon County, were on their way fro
Mead's to Marshall, distance of eig
teen miles, on the fatal Tuesday. The
had arrived within two miles of Marsha
when the storm overlook them, and IL
team actually refused to go furthe
Here they remained until Saturds
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