Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-01-23
Terrible Effects of the Late Snow
Storm.

The recent storm in the Northwest was
of the most furious and terrible charac-
ter. Nothing like it has been expert
enced for years past, and for years to
come it will be an epoch from which chro-
biological events may be recokoned. The
storm came on SO suddenly that people
were wholly unprepared for the onset.
It took them completely by surprise, and
in numbers of instances it was disastrous
to life and property. One instance is
related of farmer at New Ulm, MINI.
On the day of the storm, not apprehend-
ing danger, he started to go to the village
of Nicolet, few miles distant. Nothing
was heard of the man until the next day,
when some citizens, in passing, discover
ed dead horses head protruding from
snow-drift. An excavation was made,
and the missing man was found sitting
in his wagon, frozen to death, with the
reins in his hands. Another man, in the
same vicinity, was found standing by his
barn-door frozen stiff, and close by three
more were found dead in snow-drift.
The fury of the gale on the open prai-
rie is said to have been appalling, ex-
ceeding in violence and duration any
thing ever before experienced. Near
Wilmer, MINI. "a party of five, each
driving a two-horse team, were overtaken
by the gale on the road to that town
with wheat. -Four of them, with their
teams, were found frozen to death, and
the fifth was SO badly frozen as to pre-
clude hope of recovery.
A dispatch from Wilmer, Mimi, says
Hourly news is brought in of frozen
teams being found, and the supposition
| is that their owners Jared the same fate.
The storm commenced without a shadow
of warming, and lasted 60 hours. Mr..
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Hermann, left the depot for the tank
house, few rods distant, and was found
frozen to death by his son. Undoubt-
edly hundreds have met the same fate. "
A boy on his way home from school
was frozen to death near New Ulm,
Mimi Near st. James, Mimi, a man
and three yoke of oxen were found dead.
Two farmers were overtaken by the
storm near Litchfeld, MINI. One was
subsequently, found dead, and the other
so badly frost-bitten that he will lose all
his limbs. A party of fve-twe men,
two women and boy-were caught by
the blast near Kirkhaven, MINI. Three
of them were found dead, and the other
two will lose their arms and legs.
Near Worthington, Mimi, two teams
were found with one of the drivers sc
frozen that there are no hopes of recov.
cry The other one had disappeared
and no trace can be found. A young
couple living near Lemars, Iowa, went
to Sioux City for the purpose of getting
married. On returning they were lost
in the storm, turned the horses loose
and turned the sleigh over to protect
them from the storm. After staying
there two days they were saved. Tht
only unpleasant feature, they say, was
that one of the mothers-in-law was
along.
Elder Lee and his son were found
dead in a snow-bank near Sioux City
Iowa.
A party of three men left Covington
Nebraska, for home on the day of th'
storm, since which time nothing ha'
been heard of them. They have in al
probability perished.
A. G. jenkins, foreman of the Ohio
Bridge Company, of Cleveland, wa
frozen to death in Lyons county, Iowa.
Numbers of other persons at various
points were overtaken by the terrible
blast and frozen to death. Taken al
in all, it was undoubtedly the mos
furious and terribly destructive storms
! both of life and property, that has eve
swept over the Northwest,