The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-02-07
THE MINNESOTA ICE HORROR
Over Two Hundred Lives Lost Snow
Drifts Higher than Houses

A Land of Snow strewn with corpses
From the New York Herald.l
WINoNA, MINI, Jan, 49,. While
your Eastern world on the verge oil
the Gulf Stream has been lifting the
hands of despair and voice of pro-
test over q snowfall which made 10.
comotion on foot unpleasant and by
horse cars impossible for a day OF
two, and while the whole country
has been thrilling with horror at the
incremation of a few hapless work
women in a finder box, up here, on
the shadeless and shelterless prair
les. "there hath been wrought a
deed of dreadful neta." Human
suffering which parallels that endur>
cd by the fated Franklin has been
of hourly occurrence, and lives have
been taken as freely as in battle,
but with attendant circumstances in
finitcly more tragic than wait on the
parting of the soul which is rent
from the mangled flesh by shot or
steel. | was in Minnesota after the
awful massacre of ten years ago,
when the red wave Of Indian inva>
sion swept over the smiling land
and left il waste of ashes soaked
with blood but the
sCALPING KNIFE
and bullet Of the Sioux did not do
such havoc as the SHOWS have
wrought this year, nor were all the
tortures of the red fiends productive
of more agony than have Witnessed
within the past ton days. What has
been suffered and how many have
been slain has not yet been ascer-
tanned, for the settlements are far
apart and communication is difficult !;
but by every mail comes particulars
that chill the blood, and we can now
fairly estimate tho extent Of the ca
lamity /; and, inasmuch as the history
Of this memorable Polar wave must,
in a measure, be derived from local
sources end hackwSods journals that
never reach the Eastern reader OF
editor, it may not be labor wasted
on tho part Of the Herald's cores
pondent to prepare succinct and
Ineligible account Of the sad affair,
to which are added such personal
passages as may be most worthy o.
preservation.
Upto that fatal Tuesday, at whose
mention many heart shall ache il
Minnesota tot years 20 come, there
had been Water weather Of tho US.
ual sort, clear cold, will, occasional
storms of snow, some Of which had
seriously blockaded the railroads and
induced considerable suffering from
scarcity Of fuel. The epizooty had
for uome time laid an embargo on
travel. Our great Northwestern
country must not be considered to
be like Canada, a land Of hills and
valleys, thickly clad with pine for
est. A great table land, Of consid-
cradle altitude, lying open to the
winds that sweep down from the
Northern Sea at intervals,
ICY AS THE BREATH OF DEATH,
with an occasional tree, a semi oc-
casional clump of trees, or atill
rarer belt Of forest along water
course, and an atmosphere dry and
rare such is the Northwest. 1t ia
largely settled by immigrants from
Scandinavia, poor and thrifty folks,
whose wooden houses stand sipgly
or in little hamlets, marking the
prairie at every few miles. The
country is fertile, and in summer
smiles as the garden Of the Lord /;
but in winter it presents bleak
face of snow to cloudless, blue
sky.
Tuesday, the 9TH, was lovely
and mild day. The sun was brigh
and the air balmy. Every pulse o
the country was astir under the gen
ial influence and the wild swans tina
changed overhead once or twice 70
their meres must have seen tn
prairie roads alive with teams. Tn
farmers we're all out at the neares
settlement. They were getting shor
of fuel; there was but a handful 0
-four a. the bottom Of tho barrel, no
a scrap Of meat was left. But tn
SHOWS had ceased, their horses wer'
well again, 50 every farmer hitchet
the team for the town. In the littlt
cottages of wood were women and
children the school-bouses were
full of little ones. Such was the
country, thus its dwellers, when ths
blow fell. Nature would seem Il
have arregated to herself all the say
age attributes which had marked
her first children there, their care
full and patient watch for an cas-,
opportunity, and their sudden ant
relentless onslaught
THE STORM WAS TURNED SIOUX.
At Winnebage City there were
sixty teams assembled scores were
at New Uim. All along from Alber
Lea and Blue Earth, by Window
Mankato, clear up to Breckinridge
Belle, Prairie, and Duluth, the peo'
pie were scattered, delivered int
the hands of the storm.
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