The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-01-28

SLAIN By sNow-sFunn1 ;THa9 Hun.
DRIED LIVES Losr.-T6AW Wiaohs. Mint,
o9srespondsnt9f thess ssHev, York Hsruld
gives the tpllol4 ling additional particulars
oklths1ate tori s3ble SNOW storm: l. !,
:NswiUlm ordered tninetsen coisps on
one day, aud Al least fifty. deaths nre re.
ported from that plsOs aud Fora RiaReley.
Twenty deaths at Morris, nine &c Made.
lie, twenty,four at Sleepy Eye Lake,
eight at Worthiugton, ten at Manketo-
80 runs the fatal record In this letter I
propdse giving soine] disooanectsd inci-
denta and, episode 0t. .ttha fatal Tuesday.
which may be of interest to Eastern
readers. Some idea Of tho depth of the
snow drifts may be formed when we con-
slider thnt on Wednesday the snow was
piled so high about a freight train,
blockaded on the Davenport and st.
Paul Railroad, near Delaware Center,
TINT teams drove right over the cars.
Upon the same line there are drifts 8, 900
feet long and fifteen feet deep. Year
Blue Earth men could pass on foot ovor
tic telegraph wireB, aud at New Ulm, in
one drift, was fonnd q man frozen to
death while sitting on the seat OF his
sleigh, his head being fully five feet uu-
der the surface.
The school-mistress discharged her
scholars, telling them to run home. Some
escaped with but slight injuries, but
seven of the little ones lost their way in
the binding drifts, and were found dead,
one with his books under his arm aud
his little foot lifted for a step-a step
which proved step beyond the confines
of life. Two others were found frozen
to death in each others arms; tears,
which the bitter cold or the near up.
proaoh OF death had wrnug from them.
| standing in little beads of ice on their
innocent cheeks.
A stage left Msdelia for ST. James,
having eight passengers and a driver.
On Wednesday, morning, not having ar
rived. search was made for it. It was
found on the road, the horses frozen to
death, the driver grinning oorpsu on
the seat, with the reins still in his hands,
and eight bundles of robes and clothes
Fin the bottom OF the sleigh. each of
which contained q soulless lump of icy
flesh.
Mr.. A. K. jenkins, OF tho Cleveland.
Ohio, Bridge Company, who was super
intending the building of an iron bridge
at Rock Rapids, lowe. was travelling BY
stage thence to Sibley. Arrived at the
Llatter place, the other passengers disem-
barked. He did not stir. They called
had ridden with them for some time, and
the body was already rigid.
| At Oshawa. about 100 yards from the
railroad station, were found two horses
harnessed to u cutter, in which. sitting
bolt upright, were two mep dressed ia
hwarna bafalo coats: They wero frozen
stiff and dead. John Hagameyer, OF
Elizabeth, started to 60 from This house
to- his blacksmith's shop, <150 yards
away. He was found two miles distant,
frozen to death.
r. At Herman, on the st. Pall and Pa.
cifio Railroad, a man was frozen to death
/ going from the station to the tank house.
At Nioollet, within twenty yards oi
The railroad station, q man was found
frozen to death in his aleigh. In the
same village; another man lost his life
while trying to close his barn door,
blocked 'bya snow-drift.
I Mr.. Charles Deming. mail-carrier be.
tween Vermillion and Swan Lake, hung
u buffalo robe over the wheels of his
buggy, and spent twenty-six hours in the
Ice of this poor shelter, freezing one
foOt and one hand. When the storm
ceased. he found himself within forty
yards Of a house.
+ At Fort Ridgelcy, three brothers were
hauling grain when the storm came on
them. They sought shelter in their
| grain cribs in an open field. All three
we're fonnd there dead.
Mr.. Lee and his son, aged thirteen,
left their house, near Sioux City, on
Tuesday, for load of wood. On Friday,
they were found about eighty yards
apart. Evidently they had freed their
cattle, aud then gone OH, mistaking their
why. Both were thinly clad. The boys
arms were crossed, as il he had tried to
keep his bnttonless over-coat closed.
The faithful dog was found beside his
dead master. A widow is left destitute
with four children, the eldest only soven
years old.
Near Mndslia, man unhitched his
team and went to search for a house,
leaving his wife in the sleigh. She be-
came anxious, and followed him. Both
were frozen to death.
A Mr.. TENNIS, his son and his sons
wife started from Fergus Falls for Eliza.
beth. Becoming looked in q drift. the
! mon tnnk the mules and uapf fo. oao;o+