Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1888-01-19
FROZEN TO DEATH.
Frost Withers Many Iives-The Biz
zard Counts It's Victims up
10 a Hundred

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Reports Of the finding of the bodlesof per-
sons frozen to death in last weeks
storm cams pouring in from all parts ul
the Northwest and is estimated that not fur
short Of 100 persons psrished Of the cold. Fol-
lowing is a summary up to Sunday night:
At Adrain, Mimi, John Daring; Hitchcock.
Oak, Emil Gilbertson; Mitchell, Da-, Georg,
Allen, Jr., Joseph Anderson; Minot, Oak
James Smith and two sons; Raymond, Oak,
VIM. Driver and two sons, Charles Heath
Omaha, Neb., Fred Elier, cigarmaker, o
young lady, name not reported, Wexwell
Beck aged years; Poster, Neb., George W.
Post; David City, Neh., child of
John Dealinger; Sioux City,
Ia, unknown man; Belgrade, Mont, William
Overton: Marysyille, Mont, Patrick Hanley,
Huron, Oak, Thomas E. Gilkerson, Rowland
E. Chambers; Luzerne, Mimi, John 10y;
Inwood, Ia, Mr.. Fitzgera d an two children;
Aberdt en-, DAk., William owe. hudson West
gate; Bowdle, Oak, NJ inc; ROSCOE, Oak,
Peter Ferhume; Hitchcock, AJaK.. Emil Glib
eron; Ovtrton OAK, William Merson, Jo
s.ph Wih on, Charles Merson; Iroquois, OAK,
Mrs. Devine, Adam Gerner, ]. w. Gosler:
Barkston, Oak, W. B, Headley; Delamere,
Oak, Miss Cora Curtis.
A young man perished near Brookings,
Dak,, on Thursday; four were loss near
Claremont, Oak; out Of party of seven
farmers who started from Watertown, Oak,
for their homes on Thursday, four have been
found dead and searchers are after the
others; the school at Inwood, Ia, was dis
missed and two children named Fitzgerald
perished; two farmers were frozen on the
way from Bridgewater to Marion Junction,
sleigh near Sioux Falls with the features so dis
torted as to be unrecogniz able; o. E. Stearns
school teacher near De Smith, Oak, was
! out ~ hours in the storm with his three
children and the boy had his feet frozen an
will lose them both; near Huron, DIX,
Robert Chambers, Thomas and William
Nelson Perished and Joseph Frilson is miss
ing: Chambers saved his son by burying him
in the snow, a big st. Bernard dog standing
by him all night and barking; at Gary, Oak
Charles Staltzenberg and two sons OF
Joseph Hutchinson, and near Minot a
Mr.. Davis and his son perishel; ne II
Sioux Falls the victims are lady teacher
named jacobson, a pupil named Girie, G..
Gounstrum, farmer, AMI two others; at
.Lesteryille, Dak., Jacob Krutz died; there
were three victims near Tyn iall, Oak, and
two girls persisted near Wakenda, Oak. near
Miller, Oak, ]. w. Gasslee was lost; near
Faulkton, Emma Lamar, school teach n
AMI Carrie Amman, a pupil, and Will c.
Garthwate, farmers son, who got lost while
going from the house to the barn, all perish
Ell; at Raymond, Willie and Harry Driver
persisted.
In Nebraska, Mrs. P. Smith was frc@e t
death at Woodlawn; John Sparks, ExR Repre-
sentative, was frozen to Geath near his home
at Beatrice; Emil Grosman, of Peru, was
found dead 20 yards from his house.
The majority of the railroads are still
olocked and the cold throughout this re .ior
continues, the temperature ranging from II
to 30 below zero A Northern Pacific trair
left the track at Pemoini, Oak, running into
a hupe snow drift