Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-01-23
THE MINNESOTA HORROR.
Legislative Aid Recommended for the
Sufferers.


Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 15.-Tbe Governor sent
a message to the Legislature to-day, recon-
mending that in view of the loss of life and
stock, ard the suffering that must follow
from the disasters of the late great storm,
that body take immediate steps to
furnish Sta aid to the sufferers, many of
whom, being new corners, are in INDECENT
circumstances. With view Of preventing,
to great extent, the recurrence of such a
disaster in the future, a petition was pre-
sented to the House, signed by q number Of
the leading citizens of the city, for the en-
actment Of a law providing for the erection
of wire fences on both sides of roads cross
ing the prairies, 10 be kept in repair by the
county or town through which they pass.
Tho list of deaths by the late storm is
receiving hourly accessiOns. So far the
greatest number of casualties are reported
from Brown county, in the vicinity of New
Ulm, within few miles of which eighteen
persons are known to have perished. A
gentleman from Redwood Falls says that
when he left there thirty seven deaths had
been reported of persons frozen in Rea-
vile, Chippewa, Yellow Medicine, and Red
wood Center. Among the fatal cases named
in Sibley county are p. B. Baker, A. K.
Jenkins and P. Sandarberger. Those |
named from Brown comfy are Thos. O'Con-
mel, with team; Mr.. Tenney, young man
named Morehouse, L. NJ. Fox, wife, child |
and nephew, of New Ulm, were over
taken by The storm on the Redwood road, /
between Madelia and Marshall, They pro-
tected themselves with tae sleigh box |
and sacks of -four until Wednesday morn |
ing, when the nephew and child died. The |
mother held the dead body of the child in |
her arms until Friday morning, when they |
were discovered and taken to Marshall. |
Mr.. FcX is very badly frozen and his wife |
is insane. A dispatch from Fergus Falls |
says that the loss of life already reported |
in that vicinity is 20, while the l0as of |
stock can be counted by hundreds. Houses |
have entirely disappeared beneath the huge |
snowdrifts, and travel is entirely blockaded |
and stopped. A Morris dispatch mentions |
5he finding Of the deao bodies of p. Frete
land, man named Oieson, and Mr., Bea. |
KEY. A son of Mr.. Beakey 10 missing, and |
has undoubtedly perished. Hans Oleson |
was found after being out forty-eight |
hours, badly frozen, and will probably die. |
Christian Heg was caught in the storm, on |
Tuesday, and buried in drift, where he |
remained until Saturday afternoon, when !
he was found badly frozen, but may recoy-
er. Hon. II. R. Wells, of Preston, Fill
more county, reports the loss of a minister
and family from Lime Springs, Iowa, who |
were visiting in Fillmore county. The min |
lister, shis wife and two children, un-
dertoOk to reach home, and when near
home the horses gave out and be took one
child and made his way to the house, but
in returning to the cutter where he had left |
his wife and remaining child, he was lost,
and was found the next day frozen to death.
His wife and child, left in the cutter, were
also found dead, but the one taken to the
house was found alive.