Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-10-22
THE GREAT STORM.
Reports of Losses in the Outside Counties
Cattle, Horses nnd Swine DESTROYED,


Cattle, Horses and Swine Destroyed.
Reports of damage by the late storm,
adjoining counties have begun TO ar
rise, through the local newspapers, and
the destruction of stock is no inconsid.
erable item.
The Elk Point Courier says the loss OF
stock was great and will sum up into
thousands. 1t was not so cold as To
freeze stock, but the snow being wet and
tho wind cold, they simply chilled to
death. The Courier gives the following
list: "Geo. Ford, jr., lost eight head OF
yearlings. Mr.. Welsh, of Elk Point, lost
nine head of hogs. MIR. Claus Peterson,
west of Elk Point, lost a horse and three
head of cattle. NJ. Wallace lost six
teen pigs. A horse perished in the old
barn south of Woods livery"
The Vermillion Republican says that
during Friday and Friday night the biz
zard ragged and only abated Saturday
morning when not less than two feet of
damp, heavy snow had fallen. Gather
ing on the limbs of trees it swept them
OIL doing great damage to groves and
fruit trees. Maple trees especially were
badly injured. The Republican further
says: Cattle sheds, fiat roofs and weak
barns were smashed down and III some
cases killed hogs and cattle. Hason and
Duly lost few pigs this way at their
cattle yards near the depot. Exposed
droves of cattle when the storm struck
them stampeded in the line of the storm.
Nearly two hundred head from about
Meckling brought up in the timber in
the river bend southeast of town, while
large drove came across the Vermillion
bridge and took shelter in R,lssell's tim
Der. The loss of stock was serious.
The Republicans list of Clay county
losses includes the following: James
Hyde lost COW and some calves. A
man at Riverside, whose name we have
not learned, lost forty head. From
nearly all quarters we hear of the loss of
calves, yearlings, pigs and colts. J. d.
Vaughn lost two colts, s. w. Kidder five
calves. Half dozen dead cattle are up
near the railroad bridge. We expect to
hear OF heavy losses of sheep. Ole An
derson dug out his hogs from drift five
feet deep and they were all right. II.
II. Rudd. of Lodi. lost sixty hogs, four
colts and nine head Of cattle. Bill De.
wire of Lodi, lost two three-year old
colts. Leo Barton of Oakdale, Yankton
county, lost ten COWS and A. A. Sergeant
OF Middleton, Turner county, lost sixty
head of cattle. G. N. Taylor, of Neck
ling lost a few head of cattle. G. And
rews, of Burbank, lost 30 hogs.
The Niobrara Pioneer says:
This is the earliest storm we have
known during our residence in the coun-
try, and the suffering to stock must have
been severe, and occasioned considerable
loss. Fifteen hundred head of stock are
somewhere on the Running Water en-
route to this point, and we expect to hear
of stampede during the storm. At this
writing, Saturday morning. the storm
has cleared away, but the wind is blow
ing gale from the same quarter, which
will probably continue throughout the
day, and then give way to mild weather,
which must certainly last for month or
six weeks.
The Sioux Falls Pantagraph has only
incomplete returns from the farmers, but
it gives the following:
No account can be made of hogs and
sheep lost, but the number will run up
into hundreds inthe countrywithin fifteen
or twenty miles of us. 6. X. Howard
lost eight head of horned stock and three
valuable coalts; Mr.. Duff, on the Ketch-
um place lost three milch cows aud three
calves; F. Raymond lost four head of
horned stock; r. Fleming has probably
lost some cattle, but he yet expects the
remainder of his herd to turn up, there
being eight head missing at last reports.
Ole Gunderson was reported as having
lost forty-six head of cattle, but they
were all recovered, having found shelter
on the bottom; from over on the Slip-up
some losses are reported; but we can
hear no definite news