The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-01-23
ONE THOUSAND DEAD.
Dakota's List of Fatalities In the
Great Blizzard.

NEBRASKA CITY, Jan. 21.-Judge j. f.
Kinney, agent Of the Yankton Sioux Indian
agency in Dakota, arrived here yesterday,
after being nine days on the road. Five days
were necessary for the party to travel 80
miles. The mercury during the five days was
400 below zero most Of the time. The
Judge says the loss OF life in Dakota has
been greatly underestimated, as the Dakota
papers have tried to cover 1t up. He de-
scribes the scene which took place on board
the cars. The coal was running low. The
passengers were crowded into one car, trying
to keep warm. Two babies perished. The
men discarded ali the outer garments they
could spare and gave them TO the ladies and
children. Finding these not enough, they
brought mail sacks from the postal car and
wrapped the children up in them. While at
one station in Bonhomme county 10 frozen
bodies were brought into the depot in one
day. In the same county the list of dead
will reach fully 160. The reports made at
Yankton yesterday Of the loss OF life
throughout the territory fgure.u 1000. The
counties where the loss of life was the lar
gest are Bonhomme. 100; Hutchinson, IA:
Lincoln. 13; Beadle, 25; Sphinx, II; Hand,
10; Ward, 10. The northern and central
parts of the territory have not been heard
from fully,
The Judge named number of curious in
cidents relating to the wanderings OF people
who went out in the storm. Mrs. Browning
of Turner county started to go from her
house to the stable, a distance of 100 feet
and her body was recovered Sunday, seven
GharlQO DOllin0pr a
farmer of Turner county, perished seven
feet from his house. A woman, name un-
known, of the same county. went out to care
for her chickens, and was found two miles
from her house. Roads from the agency TO
Yankton are lined with dead cattle. many
farmers losing all they had. One man lost
over 100 head The loss Of stock cannot be
estimated. p. l.. Clark and wife OF fank-
ton county were driving toward 1anktOn
when the blizzard struck them. Inc horses
refused to proceed, and were turned loose:
Mr.. Clark took strap and fastened one end
to Mrs. Clark and the other end to himself,
and, turning their backs to the WIND, they
wandered at random. They came to haystack
into which they burrowed and remained all
night. In the morning Mr.. Clark crawled
out and proceeded to house: he was Obliged
to crawl on his hands and knees, as his
clothes were frozensstif: He reached the
house ana procured assistance 10 ~ dlttA
Mrs. Clark. She was dead when. found.
William Reiswag and hired man, living near
Tripp, were found frozen to death
within few feet of the stable, to which
they had gone to care for stock Joshua
Taylor and two sons, near Scotland, started
to water their stock before the storm came
up. Their bodies have not yet been found.
Judge Kenney has received word from the
agency, and he says, while large number OIL
Indians were out hunting and hauling wood,
mis- The ludQa accom-
panied all through the scenes OF suffering
by his wife. Both were slightly frozen
about the hands ard feet
Seizing Fuel.
OMAHA, Neb. Jan. 21.-For the past 4S
hours dispatches have been received at the
Union Pacific headquarters announcing at
tacks made ON the coal cars of the company
by settlers along the line in the western part
of the State. who we've suffering for want OF
fuel The terrible cold weather and snow
blockades have resulted in the burning up Of
every bit of coal in those localities, and the
farmers have been obliged to burn corn, nay,
outhouses, and in some instances even house
hold furniture to keep from freezing.
On the 18th, at CoZada, a freight train con
tanning several cars of coal was stopped by
100 men, who uncoupled two OF these cars,
threw the coal on the ground and afterwards
hauled it away.
At Sheldon, last night, a coal train was
boarded and coal thrown off in the same
manner. As the train started up one OF the
men who was unloading the fuel was caught
under the wheels and so badly crushed that
he will probably die. Similar occurrences
are reported from Gibbon and Kearney
Freezing the Mercury.
MINNEAPOLIS, lJan. 21.-Eyery mercury
thermometer in this city froze up this morn
ing. Signal Observer Cheney's government
standard mercury thermometer showed 40
degrees below zero at a. m. The minimum
thermometer at the st. Paul signal station
registered Al $40 degrees at the same hour,
but the twin cities enjoyed balmy atmOs-
phere compared with some other Northwest
ern points. Chippewa WA Falls Wisconsin. re-
st. Cloud, Minnesota, $50; Northfeld, 45o;
ZumbrOta, $50.
The local signal officer says the lowest tenn
perature ever recorded since the establish
ment of the United States signal service
station in 1871 was reached this morning.
High as Telegraph Poles.
hILLBANK, OAK, Jan. 21.-Two passen-
ger trains from Minneapolis that had been
blockaded reached here this morning, the
first from the East sincesthe 10th. COnduc-
tors report drifts are high as the telegraph
poles Great fears are entertained that this
road may be permanently closed before
spring, in which case much suffering must be
inevitable, as there is less than two weeks
supply Of coal in the hands OF dealers at
this station, and some others are already
bare.
GOV. AIger Talks Politics.
DETROIT, Jan. 2i.-The Tribune of this
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