New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-21
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Some Terrible Reminders Of the Re-
cent Blizzard in Dakota.

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Mr.. B. Lyon, a contractor on the
western extension of the Northern
Pacific, came to town yesterday and
was interviewed by an A'yus re.
porter. Mr.. Lyon has two camps,
one in the bleak country beyond
Mandan, and was the witness of a
great deal of suffering and death in.
cidental to the recent storm that
swept over the western end of this
territory. He started out with sup
plies fl ON Mandan and reached Pres
toms 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
rancho over night. Mr.. Lyon re-
turned next morning to his camp,
and on the way he met a 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 it, and fastened on.
AS soon as he could unload he
started back to pick up the pedestri.
ans he had encountered in the hope
of saving them, and had not jour
neyed more than seven miles when
he met Tom Shandley, the printer
formerly employed in Fargo print
ing office. Shandley called Mr.. Ly.
on 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 Shandley was in desper.
ate condition. His face and hands
were frozen solid, and the contrac-
ton produced by the frost had drawn
the unhappy mans's features into a
CHASTITY grin horrible to behold. The
poor fellows feet were frozen stiff,
and although Lyon tried his best to
get his boots off, he found it impos-
sible. He laid the poor creature
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 insist
ed upon attempting to reach the end
Of the track, and after trying to dis.
suade him, Lyon was reluctantly OBJ
liged to leave him and drive on east.
ward in the hope Of sucucring 9th.
ers. Before leaving, however, he
gave him a Mackinaw blanket,
which he tied around Shandley, and
hoped it might keep him from en-
tirely freezing. This was the last
ever seen Of Tom Shandley.
Proceeding in a 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, Lyon discovered the
body ola man named Moynihan.
When at the rancho, on the previous
day, they had been in conversation,
and Moynihan said he had left home
in New York nineteen years ago,
since which time he had meyer heard
from his family. He had a sum Of
money on his BODY which Mr.. Lyon
has sent to a sister Of deceased as.
certainedt to be living in Ionia, Mich.
igan.
Mr.. Lyon expresses his opinion
that there are a number Of bodies
between the end Of the track and
the bad lands, which will be found
when spring opens-he thinks per.