The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-01-25
.x~wsrosn II Minnesota.

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Ovse Three Hasared LtSsSLost-
Wes. Women, ChIldren ana TeansI
Hressa % Death.
Some particulars OF the suffering snc
Lose OF Life incident 70 the terrible sno.
storm thu sseps .pver the Northwest
beginning 90 suddenly on the Ith o
January, and lasting fifty-tour hours
have from time to time been Published
As vet the full destructive effects OF the
storm have not been ascsrsained, sut
Judging from the number Of persons
who are known 70 be missing. it is sup
posed that from two hundred and f!ty
to three hundred persons were frozen
to death in Minnesota between Tues
dsy, the It'll Of January, and Friday,
the lOxh., A correspondent OF the New
York Herald hss visited the scene o.
the disaaiers, and, after alluding to the
contrast o. complaints IN the Eastern
cities OF temporary inconvenience Of
travel by the recent storms TO the teri
bic realities On the frozen fields OF Min
neeota. gives 9 graphic recital o. the
general facts consected with the storm
IN the latter region. He says:
Tuesday, the 7th, WIS q lovely and
mild day. The sun was bright and the
air balmy. Every pulse of the countrE
was astir under the genial Influence, and
the Wild swans that changed over
head once OF twice from their meres
must hsye seen the prairie roads alive
with teams. The fsrmers were all oft
at the nearest settlement They were
getting short of incl; there was but 8
handful of hour 81 the bottom OF the
barrel, not o scrsp OF meat was left
But the SHOWS had ceased, their sbagc!
little horses we're we'll again, so every
fsrme- hitched HE team for the town
10 the little cottages OF wood were NO
men and children; the schoolhouses
we're full OF little ones Such was the
country. thus its dwellings, when the
blow tell.
At Winnebago City there were sixty
teams assembled scores were at New
Ulm. AL along trnm Albert Lea and
Blue Earth, by Window. Mankato clea-
up to Breckenridge, Belle Prairie and
Duluth, the people we're scattered, de-
livered into the hsnds Of the storm.
Between twelve ana two o'clock on
Tuesday the sky turned livid, the sun
became merely 9 dull brazen ring, the
south wind chopped around rapidly, be-
came cold, and IN very minutes wa
laden with fine frozen srowdrift- that
srung like q shower OF needles. Know
ing what this hurricane BODIED, men
leaped into their sleighs, and with voice
and lash urged their covering horses
out into the storm. Then the work O.
death began. For more than fly
hours. til late on Tuesday, the freezir 2
wind and falling snow continued. II
vss not q steady fall OF snow, but
A HowLIye HURRICANE,
the wind somsfimes attaining g speed
OF twentv-eisht. thirty, or thirty-fuo
miles. The snow came in .fidul fur
ries with . Wild screech and Singing
uhiz The thermometer fell steadily,
till al Champlsin i, registered fifty-four
degrees below zero. AT other places
the mercury or spirit marked from eight
to forty.two degrees below. Some o.
the farmers who get out soou found that
il they valued life they must turn back
They were euveloped in sheets OF snow
tha: blinded them. The wind came go
fiprcely that they were tain to stop and
ru,n round till 9 mowentary lull came
The roai-why, the level prairie wa;
al road now, without one track o
wheel or runner to Indicate the path o
safety.
Here follows 8 description OF tn
manner in WHICH those away from hom'
were blinded and driven in circles arounc
the prairie, uul theeu8erins horses re
fused so,io their work. and men ant
teams pe-ished in the Tapidly-drittin
storm. Tire families n home waiting
in the cold, witbous fuel, and the snow
covering sheR small houses, until wo-
men sndehiidrsn7sere frozen. is also
veritsble and Isad picture Of the corres
popdeut He cleses with q ststemen
Of the number supposed to be lost
1Hs DEATH ROLL
cannot vet be made up@~ith any rea
sonable. dAgree<otcGtsnty We sr
only nov getting detailed reports IRON
the nearest settlements, and II will b
fully q week ere these are sn compies
As 10 be Trustworthy Mary OF Tn
missing will not be found till spring
but j, is safe TO SET down al the MISSING
as dead. After carefully collstng tn
various reports received thus fs-. sn'
making sll allowance Tor the remaining
pars OF the State, I am ed 10 conclnd'
that the los OF life in Minnesota vii
range rem two hundred and tiftv q
three hundred. Il is just possible
though not probable, that the ri ne
igure may be reached. Almost al o
these are men, and the very large pro
portion OF them fathers OF families II
strai,ened circumstances. The surrF
y;,s widows and children will thus b
lefs without means OF supporto any de
scyiption. The charitable o. the Eas
IN Ga an oh;sct foY their sym