New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-17
NEARLY TWO HUNDRED DEAD
ONE HUNDRED AND rIrTyFIvE BODIES RECOVERED |
IN DAKOTA AND OTHERS MissING-soME INcI- |

ONE HUNDRED AND FIrTY-FIvE BODIES RECOVERED
IN DAKOTA AND OTHERS MissING-soME INCI-
DENIS THr BrIZZ ARD.
ST PAUL, Minn Jan lG.--The storm which swept over
the Northwest, bIockading railroads I'm five states
Is and the victims OF its fury are being
counted The list growing almost every hour. Next
to this the w,rst blizzard that the Northwest ever
experienced occurred January 7, and %, 1873.
In that storm seventy people were frozen TO death.
The last storm came without warning. At sunrise on
Wednesday the air clear and every subject about
the horizon was distinctly visible The wind was from
the south, warm and baimy and before the sun was
high decid.d thaw set in. Farmers took advantage
OF the beauuful weather TO to town, to draw wood,
hay, etc. About noon, cloud was soen along the
boihw estern horizon, lying close to tho ground, but
stretching fOm the West to the North IL dark semi
circle. Little attention. paid to 1t, but In an hour
sculed the snow filling fast, and gale
sweeping from tho Northwest with terrible fury. Ine
mercury fell rapidly and by D O'Clock IL nf,ecn
degrees be.ow lvro tho next morning registered
thirty degrees below The wind increase, iu.y, Inc
snow fen thicker, and the large amount OF tnat
was hTeatS Oh tins ground blown into powder and
hurried along by tho wind On the prairie object
forty feet distant could not be mans
could not be heard SIX feet away The air Iuii vi
snow as hne a. hour and the roaring OF the wind anu
the darkness caused by much IN the air. made
the scene Inc most disnai, drear and orsakcn That
nesoia and many Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin rail
were down. and IL not saturday that the 1uli
extent OF The storm became apparent.
Mary Connsll, school tcacner near Cavour, started
homo win Two of her pupils, boy and gin. Ihe
boy LETT them and penshea Miss ConncA put her
dress folds about tho ntue girl and made her Walk
night seierng her charge with hei body. Iney were
found the next morning alive but badly frozen. An
H.,
home with little grl and both perished. When
found, Miss jacobson was couched IN li,tlo hollow
In the ground with her arms about the little gh a0u
her dress skirt appel about her. Her own
b0nnett oil her head and her hand clutcned her
dress at the breast. She dead with smile her
face.
Bessie stanscId age nineteen left her school three
miles from Aberdeen, LAX, to 90 to farmers house
thirty yards distant. Her dead body found Deany
Q mile from the school house. Four Children were
noLen 10 death in school house at Mcilette. The
left them to get ssstaucc and her body has
yet been found Miss Steubierner, another teacher
twelve miles northeast of Aberdeen, out all night
I'm the blizzard When found she still alive but dieo
shortly anerward
Two children, boy and girl, of Of Joseph Hutchi-
son. Gary, lost going home from sch'oi
Twenty five stated the search for them,
and the mother coula not be kept from going along
The poor woman was with the party that found tnenl
sisters hands between his own.
A number OF the dead had the appearance OF having
died from su1OcatiOn. some had torn their clOthlng
away from their hroats and others had thrown away
their hoadcoveng, and were clutchng at their thfoaS
as though struggling for breath. In genuine bllz
zard the sir Is filed with fine Ice dust, driven with ter
ribe force, which chokes the unfortunate victm IN
short time II he attempts to stand against it.
The Minneapolis Journals list Of blizzard fatalities
shows 81 dead in Dakota IL in Minnesota In Iowa, IL
in Nebraska and in Montana Total, 135, besides 90
Later reports Increased the number Of dead in Dakota
to las.
LITTLE ROCK Jan. 16 (SpeciaD) AT dayorcak the
showed 80 below zers. snow and sleet
storm raging all DAY. The weather is the most
severe Ia twenty old years
GALVESTON. Tex, Jan. 16The Dakota blizzard struck
the Gulf Of Mexico at this point at l o'clock Sunday
msrnng causing fall In the temperature OF 800 in two
hours The blizzard upon the city with remarkable
suddsnness and without tho slightest warning frsm the
signal. and predicting freezing weather arriving only
thirty minutes before the blizzard tse Frsm 62' at
midnight the mercury fell to 29' by daylight, and
heavy sleet began to fall, covering the city
with a coat Of ice. BY Sunday evening the telegraph
ana telephone wires leading from the mainland into the
city all carried down sy the heavy COATING OF ice
which had formed On them and the city was entlrsy
eli from telegraphic communication Tor nearly
four hsurs Tie weather the most severe OK
psrsneed here since January. 1885. The mercury TO
day indicated 300 above The ground Is covered
with nearly an Inch OF spow.
JACKSON, Miss, JAN l6-The esldest weather OF the
seasoE prevails throughout the state extending as far
south as summit The earth is covered with see snow
and ice