The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-01-20
UNDER NANTES OF SNOW.

| Over 80 Frozen Bodies of Victims of the
Late Blizzard Found. and 1t Is Thought
the Death-List VIII Reach 2OO-Loss
of Life in Texas Hundreds of Cattle
] Frozen.
ST PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 1S.-Reports of loss
| OF life in the blizzard continue to come in,
and the list OF those known to be dead
numbers row 100 It seems likely that the
total number of lives lost is fully 200 Sarah
| Dolan, a school teacher of Goodwin, near
| Clear Lake D. T., and Hugo Scheff, farmer
| of Altamont, D. T., have been found
| frozen to death The Northwestern road
| opened its track to Garry last night, taking
| there thirty-seven days mail 1t will take
| two days of hard work to reach Watertown.
jamestown, D. T., reports that NJ A Ryan,
farmer who lived near Windsor, was found
| frozen to death by searching party near
haystack about eight miles from
| Windsor He had been in the hay
stack and had come out unbuttoned his
coat and laid down ON top of snow-drift
near the stack His hands indicated that he
met death while praying. His horse was
| found alive. He had matches in his pocket
when found, and friends wonder why he
did not set fire to the stack. Mrs Ryan is
nearly craZed
A Yankton I'd. T) correspondent says:
3Only two deaths are reported so far in
lankton County and two in Cay. In Bon
Homme County nineteen deaths are re-
ported From South Dakota 104 deaths
are reported In Bon Homme County 2U0
head OF froz n cattle were counted in one
pace and lao at another. Dead cattle and
hogs may be seen all along the road from
Yankton to Springfield. The snow drifts
are said to be thirty feet deep Some per-
sons missing are yet unaccounted for"
Highmore, d, T., reports that Sister
Willmeva OF Stephen mission, twenty miles
south OF there, Was caught by the blizzard
On her return from the home Of the priest
Where she had been experimenting the
laundry work. When she was found by
searchers she was standing up and still
alive. She was carried to her room, where
she died Two Indian boys sent to look for
her were scarcely saved from freezing to
death. Mrs. Anthony Haby, who lived
| twenty-elght miles north, is reported lost
Aberdeen, D. T., reports two more victims
OF the storm. In the northern part Of Hurd
County farmer who started for doctor
was found thrty-siX hours after with his
horse standing beside his dead body. A
man SIX miles west of Willard left his house,
telling his wife that if the storm increased
he would stay at the barn. He has not yet
been found
| The report of the death of a school-teach-
er and sixteen children at Clear Lake town.
ship, in the eastern part of Edmund County,
at first discredited is probably true.
1t is reported that thirty-one school chill
dren are missing in Turner County. Three
children Of MIR. Heines, living northwest of
Lennox, persisted while going home from
school The teacher of the school argued
and pleaded with the scholars not to
leave the school-room, and finally
locked the doors, but they oyerpowered
her and had their own way Mr. Heines
wanted to kill the school-mistress but the
surviving scholars exonerated her. This
| makes seven children lost in the vicinity of
Lennox A team of horses, with COW tied
to the rear of the wagon, We're found all
frozen stiff. in the western part of the coun-
ty. The driver probably persisted
Alexandria, MIMI, reports that the frozen
body OF Haniy Countryman was found yes
terday morning about ten rods from his
home He left Alexandria at 5 o'clock
Monday night to walk home, carrying about
forty pounds of provisions, and had stopped
several times O rest At last he fell back
upon the snow and died. Edwin Kylling,
aged II, persisted near Canton, d. T.
HURON, D. T., JAN 19-It was learned
here yesterday that Burdett Scoield, aged
Is, and Katharine Druse were frozen to
death in the recent blizzard near Wolsey in
this county.
O'NEnL, Neb.. Jan. 1S.-Fifteen persons
persisted in last Thursdays storm in Custer
County alone. The loss of stock is said to
be enormous. Particulars are not obtain
able.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1S.-Reports from differ
emit sections of Texas note the cessation Of
the blizzard, but the temperature continues
very cold for that latitude. Bonham re-
ports that farmer named Henry Williams
froze to death while on his way home, and
that good many cattle have persisted.
Cleburne reports Henry Corbn, negro, and
many cattle frozen Austin, the cap
ital, reports the Colorado river frozen
over for the first time ON record, and ice
four to six inches thick, A large number Of
cattle have died in that vicinity Corsi-
cana says the snow and sleet has been I'M
precedented and travel is greatly impeded
An attempt to drive herd of catte to En-
mis-, twenty miles distant, resulted in losing
$50 of them. Stock troze to death while
Standing in the streets. Sherman re-
ports that meager reports from the pam
h. ndle say that many cattle have been
frozen to death. Torrell says there are 10
600 cattle on the pasture around that town
and that many of them have died from cold
Catttemen have suffered severely for two
months, past by bad weather, and have
been at great expense feeding stock. Sew
eral failures have occurred in con-
sequence. Colorado in the western
prt of the State, says cattle
have drifted badly, and it is believed
many have persisted The sheep on the
prairies have suffered greatly, and it is
feared human lives have been lost at the
sheep camps. Bolton reports that many
cattle on the range in that vicinity
have died. Gainesville reports that
Tom Jackson, q negro, was frozen
to death on the prairie. and Bob
Smith, a companion, was SO badly
frozen that his feet. hands and ears burst
open, and he viii probably die. News
comes from every part Of Northern Texas
of unheard-of suffering among the people
and wholesale destruction among cattle,
many of which were frozen to death under
good shelter. The unprecented cold
weather will cripple the cattle interest in
that part of the State for some time and de-
stroy the growing cereals and the fiattering
prospects of fruit for this year.
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