The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1873-03-01
GREAT SNOW STORM IN THE WEST.
Terrible Sudsrings-oreat Less Of Iifs.


Terrible sunsrings-oreat Less Of 1.ife.
The travelling correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Commercial recites at length
many Interesting facts connected with
the recent great snow storm In tho
West, parallel to which not oven tho
Indians have any traditionary account
[of. We select the following paragraphs
from the letter: ..,t
SO binding was tho storm that I'm
many instances people perished at the
very thresholds Of their h0mee. So
binding was the storm and SO fierce
the gale that no object could be dis
tinguished q distance Of thirty feet.
At New Ulm q man died at the door
of his own barn. At NicOlet two men
We're found sitting dead in a sleigh
within one hundred yards Of the rail-
road station. Charles Decker and Mrs.
Cash, Of Madelia, abandoned their team
within one hundred and fifty yards of
a house, took to the snow, and died.
Nor were houses always protection. In
Dodge County q whole family of five
persons perished in their house. Near
Nfadella, child and her aunt, MEs.
SISVS tOOh ISAukS III a OAElS OAe NAO&As
At Fort Ridgeway, three brothers per-
ished in O corn-crib. "''
A Mr.. Lee and his son, of Ellicot
Creek, went for a load OF wood. The
storm overlook them and they perishe<l.
Their little dog remained by thcir life
less bodies, with dumb affection clear
ing away the snow that fell upon them.
Mr.. Lee left a widow and four young
children destitute. Near Correction
vile, two mon, Messrs. Sparks and
Sanders, went for wood. They wore
within II mile and half Of homo when
the storm catno on, but they lost tho
they "camped" three miles from homo,
under tho sleigh. All day Wednesday
and Thursday they wandered through
the storm, and on Thursday night they
laid down and died.
Tho storm seems to have struck Now
Ulm with great fury. Within ton
miles of that place at least twenty per-
sons perished. 4 man living three
miles out came In OH Thursday OF tho
storm for Il doctor to visit his wife, who
was about being confined. Tho
storm was so terrible that no doctor
would venture out, but ono promised
to go next morning. Efforts were mado
to induce tho man to remain In town
ovcr night, but he said his wifo was
alonc, and that hc must go back. Poor
man! lIe never saw his home again
his frozen body being found II mile
away. Tho ncxt day the doctor went to
tho house and found mother and little
babc-tlcsd. Such were tho ravngcs of
tho storm around New Ulm that seven
tccn cofllns were taken from tho town
to the surrounding country in ono day.
"And in every house there was one
,icad.''
In the vicinity of New UIm, IL few days
after the storm, some children discover
ed Il hOrsc's head T,rotrutlitig from
snow-drirt. An opening was made, II
cutter was found, and In 1t II man
wrapped in buffalo robes sitting bolt
| upright, and in his icy hands tho reins
There are several instances like this rc-
corded, tho first gale in places seeming
| verify to have been charged witt.
poison. ~<A,-...
At Osfawa, not, ovcr IL hundred yards
from the Id station, wore fnnnIl
two horses II , .ched to a cutter, in which
sitting bolt upright, wcre two mo,
dressed In wnArm buffalo robes, but ,iead
At Herman, ON tho st. Paul and pnciil,
Railroad, Il infln> was froxen to dealt
going from the station to tho tank -HoM
u distance OF less than two huntlrol
yards. At Elizabeth, John Hngameycr
started to go from his house to his
blacksmith shop, ono hundred and fifty
yards away. IIo was found two miles
distant, frozen to death.
l.. l.. Robinson, Treasurer OF Red
wood County, survived what would
kill most men. IIo was on foot, and
some distance from any house, when
the storm overlook him. With great
presence of mind he dug holo in
snow bank and crnwled in. He re-
maincd in this hole from2 o'clock
Tuesday evening until after 7 o'clock
Friday morning, incredible as 1t may
seem. He had no food except as he
cut away his boot tops and chewcd
them for nourishment. He also dug
to the ground and ate gross-roots. He
kept his watch running, and noted the
slow, slow creeping away of that fear
full three days. He dared not go to
sleep, and, as may bo imagined, his
reflections were not the pleasantest.
His family had given him up for lost,
and their JOY when he pulled up ut the
door, weak and famishcd as he was, is
not to be described.
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