Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-02-13

frmed. They were travelling in q wagon
and were all found frozen.-Colorndo
(Kas.) Republican.
Andrew johnson and Messrs. Wright
and Snyder were out hunting and being
overtalsen by the storm tried to spend
the night in q snow drift with the wagon
cover over chem. johnson died, and
Snyder was 50 badly frozen that it is
feared he will also die.-Grainfeld
(Kas.) Cap sheaf.
A very sad story is the death of John
w. Ford, from near Surprise. His body
was found the last Of the week near
Hugo, some thirty miles from his home.
-Lukin (Kas.) Advocate.
1t is estimated that there are 10000
dead cattle between this city and White
Woman riecr.-Garden City (Kas.( SEN
tinel.
A mar with his wife and child was
driving in that awful storm on Thurs
day, when he came to a house and
begged for shelter, but the inhuman
wretch told him he could not keep them.
They were found next morning about q
mile from the house, frozen to death, the
mar with the lines in his hands and the
woman hugging her child to her bosom.
Hutchinson (Kas.) News.
On Sunday Mr.. Rodeck came IN from
Seely, %thirty-fve miles distant, with the
dead bodies of F. F. Israel and MARCEL
lus Catterton. Israel was formerly from
Barber county, and was a land locator in
Greeley. Catterton was from Vincennes,
Ill.-Syracuse (Kas.) journal.
This chapter Of horrors may very APP
propriately DO supplemented with mis-.
cellaneous extracts from various papers
in the stato:
The loss of cattle among the ranches
is large, but there is no way even to
make an estimate of this. 1t is reported
on good authority that not less than
100000 head of cattle have::drifted from
northwestern Kansas and Nebraska,
down against the fence wires on the line
of the Santa Fe, between Garden City
and Pueblo. These cattle are in a starv.
ing condition, as they are without feed
and water.
Several engines attached to a snow
pillow buckled into a drift in western
Kansas, thinking to demolish it. The
drift did not demolish worth anything.
An Investigation showed that there was
but n slight covering of snow in the cut,
the remainder being q solid mass Of fro.
zen cattle, the bovines having gathered
there for protection from the storm and
persisted from the cold. All this occur.
red on the line of the Union Pacific rail.
way,
Three train loads Of people were com
PEELED to "lay over" at Wamego during
the blizzard and hotel proprletors were
correspondingly happy.
Trains on the U. P, west Of Brook
Vile, Kas., have great diff :ulty in trav.
cling. The wind on the western plains
has full sweep and drifts the snow into
every crevice and nook that presents
itself.
Commenting on the storm t 10 Atchi
son Capital says:
c. g. Coutant, of the Daily Capital
returned from the southwestern part o
the state on Sunday night, and he re
ports that the suffering among the PEG
pile OH the plains was sever among those
who were caught without shelter. Nearl,
all who lost their lives We're persons who
got lost in the binding storm. There
were thousands Of men, women and chill
dren III sod houses and board shantie!
who stood the storm without injury. s.
far, south Of the Union Pacific, twenty
one persons are known to have been fro
zen to death.
The great rush to the southwest dur
ing the past year, and tho mistaken iie!
that was prevalent, that it was 81 climate
where summer ran all through the win
ter months, accounts for much Of tn
suffering.
No such loss Of life and property ha'
ever occurred in Dakota, from the frs
advent of the whites to the present day
New York should have a society for tn
prevention Of cruelty to immigrants, ane
the FOREGOING facts, gathered from tn
plains Of blizzard-swept Kansas. shoult
be printed in circular form. IN seve,
languages and forty dialects, and placed
in the hands of every European arrival