Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1880-11-24
reat 1r,.l News.

rt53,550 this year.
The pork house in Sioux City
ook in 1900 hogs last Tuesday.
HUeHEs Co., in which Fort Peirre
located, is to be organized soon.
The Eden brass band has ordered
Is instruments from Chicago. The
ost Will be $3.50.
THE new Eden school house
will he dedicated thanksgiving by an
oyster supper and a dance.
Sioux City has purchased q build
ing for a public library at a cost Of
$4,000.
THREE hundred hides were sold
in Vermillion recently taken from
cattle killed by the late storm.
Col. G. T. Strait Of Council Bluffs,
will sink the artesian well at Yank-
ton.
Grand Forks gets wheat at the
rate Of 5000 bushels per day, and it
is al No. 1.
w. P. Carr, one Of the old residents
and solid men of Vermillion, has
gone to New Lisbon TO live.
Fred ]. Cross, of Custar Co., il
spoken of as a candidate for speaker
Of the house.
The Vermiuion Republican is Of tho
opinion that the Standard is not de-
serving Of support because it does
not pay taxes.
A peculiar substitute for lime has
been discovered in Grand Forks Co.
It Stacks without heat and is twice
as stong a. lime.
w know of only one man in the
Territory who has an aversion to
thanksgiving turkey The Editor Of
the Mitchell Capitol offers a chrome
for one.
"Texas Jack" was arrested in
Yankton the other day by U. S.
Deputy Marshal Pay. He is q no.
torious desperate and is wanted in
Minnesota.
GEORGE Walsh writes under date
Of Nov. 18Th, denying his duplicity
rs chairman of the republican com.
mittee. His arguments are not very
convincing.
The burning of the Minnesota
State Insane Asylum at st. Peter
was q most terrible affair. The fire
caught in the wing and rapidly
spread consuming it. The dement,
ed inmates were dazled and wander.
ed about entirely bewildered, many
perishing in the flames. The Asylum
cost q half million dollars and the
burning of this wing is estimated al
100000. Below we give q descrip
ton of this heartrending scene n
written by Z correspondent:
So appalling a sight has rarely
been Witnessed, and we trust may
never be again. Many patients re.
fused to leave the building at all
They ran up and down the halls
screaming and crying and acting
like bedlamites. They were, O
course, those who could not be coax
ed mol forced out Of the building
and became unhappy victims of thu
flames, and suffered q horrible death
in the pit of the fire. Others wert
saved-some by ladders, and som,
by leaping from the windows. Some
were nearly nude, some shoeless anc
hatless, and all were exposed to tn,
exceeding cold Of the night. Many
Of the poor demented and crazed in
mates Red a. if for their lives, ano
could not be overtaken or confined
Their sufferings in this frightful con
dition can be easier imagined than
described. The whole catastroph,
is . fearful one to contemplate anG
an impossible one to describe. Thu
poor dazed inmates Of the asylum
who had escaped the flames were q
large, half clothed, and were to b
seen in all directions, flying in will
fright from those who attempted X
save them. The air was bitter cold
and the poor wretches, with half
naked bodies and bleeding feet, wer,
flying about, hiding in alleys ant
dark places. The flames spread
very rapidly from the basement
filling the halls completely viii
smoke and making it impossible x
do anything at saving the inmates o
the north wing, only by putting w
ladders and prying off fire screen.
from the doors, taking them out and
actually bringing them down in
their arms, without clothing in many
cases, while at other windows ther,
were three or four begging to be saw
ed from death, while the flames wer'
bursting from adjoining windows .
them. One poor fellow was dragged
through : half open : . and badl,
mangled.
STOCK W WHEAT.