The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1873-02-05

MiNNESuTA-FuLLY 800 LIVE,
LoST-EPISODES AND INCIDENT,
OF INTER EST--A STAGE FULL OI
DEAD PAssENuERs--FROzE re
DEATH ON a DoORsTEP-A NEWLY
MARRIED COUPLE SPEND THEIT
WEDDING NIGHT IN A SNOWDRIFl
--SEEEN SCHOOL CHILDREN FRO
ZEN-A HUSBAND DIES SEEKING
\ DOCTOR, AND TIE WIFE AMI
NEWBORN BABY FREEZE ALONE.
WINoNA, MIMI, January 20, '73
The small weekly papers have
come in, and every mail brings
US letters from tho interior with
iurthcr particulars of the recent
great storm. The authorizations
of the Hcrd'HS correspondent have
been sadly realized, and thcro is
no doubt that the lives lost will
number fully three hundred. For
instance, Now Ulm ordorod nino-
teen collins on ono day, and at
least fifty deaths arc reported
from that place and Fort Ridge
10y. Twenty deaths at Morris,
nine at Madelia, twonty-four at
Sleepy Eye Lake, eight ut Worth.
ingt"n, ten at Mankcto-so runs
the fatal record. In this letter |
propose giving some disconnected
incidents and episodes Of tho fatal
Tuesday which may bo Of Intorost
20 Eastern readers. Somo idea
Of the dopth of tho drifts
may bo formed whom we consider
that on the Wednesday the snow
was piled so high about u freight
train, blockaded on tho Davon-
port and st. Paul Railroad, near
Delaware Center, that teams drove
right ovor the cars. Upon the
same line there arc drifts 1900
long and fifteen feet deep. Near
Blue Earth mon could puss on
foot ovor the telegraph wires, and
at New Ulm in one drift was found
man frozen to death while sit.
ting on the seat Of his sleigh, his
head being fully five feet under
the surface.
SEVEN SCHOOL CHILDREN FROZEN.
One Of the saddcst incidents is
reported from Fort RidgcIcy. The
schoolmis "ess discharged hcr scho-
lars, telling them to run home.
Some escaped with but slight in
JurIes, but seven Of the little ones
lost their way in the binding
drifts and were found dead, ono
with his books under his arm and
his little foot lifted for step--a
step which had proved step be-
yond tho confines Of lifo. Two
others were found frozen to death
in each others arms; tcars, which
the bit:cr cold or tho near ap.
proach of death had wrung from
them, standing in little beads of
lce on their innocent Checks
Hugh Jones, a teacher, near New
Tim, kept tho forty scholars at
his school in tho schoolhouso from
Tuesday till Friday, risIting his
life, like u practical, unsolfish ho-
70, cvery day in two. mile tramp
through drifts four or five feet
deep to get food for them.
THE STAGE OF DEATH.
A stage left Madclia for st.
james, having eight passengers
and II driver. On Wednesday
morning, not having arrived,
search WAS mado for it. 1t was
found on the road, tho horses
frozen to death, the driver n grin
ming corpse on the scat, with tho
rcins still in his hands, and eight
bundles Of rob IS and clothes in
tho bottom Of the sloigh, each Of
which contained u soulless lump
of icy flesh.
! Mr.. a. X. Jenkins, Of the Clevo.
land, Ohio, Bridge Company, who
was experimenting tho building
OF an iron bridge, at Rock Rapids,
Iowa, was travelling by stage
thonce to Sibley. Arrived at the
latter place tho other passengers
discnbarked. lie did not stir
They called him, they touched
him, and 10 Death had ridden
with them for some time, and tho
body was already rigid.
SLAIN so NEAR SAFETY.
At Oshawa, about n hundred
yards from tho railroad station,
wcro found two horses harnesscd
to cutter, in which, sitting bolt
upright, werc two mon dressod in
warm buffalo coats. They wero
frozen stiff and dead. John Ha-
gamever, Of Elizabeth, started to
90 from his house to his black.
smiths shop, $50 yards away.
lie vas found two miles distant,
frozen to death.
At Herman, on the St. Paul and
Pacific Railroad, u man was frozen
to death going from tho station to
tho tankhouse.
At Nicollot, within twenty
yards Of the railroad station, a
man was found frozen TO death in
his sleigh.
In tho same village another m an
lost his life while trvinr tn close