Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-09
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Some Terrible Reminders of the Recent
Blizzard IN Dakota.
Fargo Argus, Jan. s.


Fargo Argus, Jan. S.
Mr.. Z. Lyon, n contractor on the western
extension of the Northern Pacific, came to
town yesterday and was interviewed by all N.
gus reporter. Mr.. Lyon has two camps Que in
the bleak country beyond Mandan, and was the
| witness of a great deal of suffering and death
| incidental to the recent storm that swept over
| the western end of this territory. he star ted
out with supplies from Mandan and reache d
| Preston's rancho on the third day
| before Christmas. Here he found several
| men who were trampIng in for the end of
the track, seventeen miles distant, and who
put up at the rauche over night. MIR. Lyon
returned next morning to mis- camp, and on the
way he met number of men who wanted to
ride with him, but he was unable TO take them
in, being heavily loaded with provisions for
his camp; however, he gave food to all who
asked 1t, and fastened on.
As soon as he could unload he started back to
pick up the pedestrians he had encountered in
the hope of saving them, and had not journey
ed more than seven miles when he met Tom
Shandley, the printer formerly employed in a
Fargo printing Office. Shandley called Mr..
Lyon by name, reminding him that he had seen
him here and the latter halted to talk with
him. He had no sooner done so than he
saw at once that ShandieY was in
a desperate condition. His face and hands
were frozen solid, and the contraction produced
by the frost had drawn the unhappy mans fea-
lures int CHASTITY grin horrible to behold. The
poor fellows feet were frozen stiff, and al
though Lyon tried his best tie get his boots off,
he found it impossible. He laid the poor
cresture1 down and worked over him for an
hour, trying to thaw out his face and beat
him with shovel in the endeavor to get up a
circulation. Badly off as Shandley was he
insisted upon attempting to reach the end
of the track, and after trying to dissuade him,
Lyon was reluctantly obliged tn leave him and
drive on westward ic the hope of succoring
others. Before leaving, however, he gave him
Mackinaw blanket, which he tied around
Shandley, and hoped it might keep him from
entirely freezing. This was the last ever seen
of Tom Standby.
Proceeding in q westerly direction, Mr..
Lyon found the bodies of two men he had met
at Preston's rancho the day before, one of
whom was known by the name of Hall, but was
in reality named Hoss. This man is said to
have a brother in the black Hills. practicing
lawyer, who has been communicated with.
Driving on to a point about three miles be-
yond the butte, MIR. Lyon discovered the body
of man named Moynihan. When at
the rancho, on the previous day, they had been
in conversation, and Moynihan said be had left
home in New York nineteen years ago, since
which time he had never heard from his fam
lily. He had q sum of money on his body
which MIR. Lyon has sent to a sister of deceased
| ascertained to be living in Ionia, Michigan.
Mr.. Lyon expresses his opinion that there
are number of bodies between the end of the
track and the bad lands, which will be found
when spring opens-he thinks perhaps fifty or
sixty, as at least that number of men who have
left the camps on the extreme end of the ex-
tension have never been heard of since they
started.