Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-01-21
persisted in THE COLD.

City, Denver, and points in Dakota,
Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska aud Mon
tana, give the particulars of death
and terrible sufferings from cold and
hunger.
! On the prairie an object forty feet
distant could not be seen. A mars
voice could not lie heard six feet dis.
taat. The air was full of snow as
| fine as flour, and the roaring of the
wind and the darkness, caused by
so much snow in the air, made the
scene the most dismal, drear and
forsaken, that man ever looked upon.
Every railroad in Dakota, MinneSo
ia, and many Iowa, Nebraska and
Wisconsin railroads, were blocked.
Telegraph wires everywhere were
down, aud it was not until Saturday
that the full extent and awful results
of the storm became apparent. The
telegraph hourly brings the most
pitiful stories of suffering, terrible
struggles for life, aud heroic deeds
by the brave men and women of the
storm stricken section, that haze
never been equalled.
A number OF the dead had the ap.
pearance OF having died from sufio.
cation. Some bad torn their cloth
ing away from their throats, and
others had thrown away their head
covering and were clutching at their
threats as though struggling for
breath. During genuine blizzard
the air is filed with fine ice dust,
driven with terrific force, which
chokeS the unfortunate victim in u
shoit time il he attempts to stand
against it.
A carload OF provisions was start.
ed Monday from Wichita to Ashland,
Clark county, but the storm stopped
the tram. II is estimated that three
thousand people in Clarke county
are in a destitute condition, and, un.
less immediate relief is afforded
them, the number Of deaths will be
fearful to contemplate.
The casualties among stock have
been greater than ever known in tie
state Of Kansas. Horses aud cattle
have persisted in their stalls, and the
Ioxner shave been badly frozen while
attempting TO care for them. On
the Missouri Pacific Railroad two
train loads of cattle coming in from
the West were caught in the biz
zard, and every animal was frozen to
death. AS most of the cattle on the
western range of the Indian Terri.
tory are new Texas stock. the loss
will be very great, they being unused
TO such low temperatures.
ABERDEEN, DAKOTA, January Ii.
Bessie Stansfield, pretty nine
teeL.year.old teacher, three miles
distant, left school during the stoim
10 go to a farmers hause thirty yards
distant. Her dead body was found
nearly a mile from the school house.
Four children froZe TO death in
school house at Mellette. The teach
er lett them to get assistance, and
her body has not yet been found.
Miss Stoubierner, another teacher,
twelve miles northeast of Aberdeen,
was out all night in the blizzard.
When found she was barely alive,
and died shortly afterward. VIM.
Morril, fifty year old farm laborer,
six miles west, went out of the house
Thursday evening to go q few rods
to the barn. He became confused,
and was found dead two miles away.
ii. s. Chaplin, of Minneapolis collee.
tor for threshing machine firm, left
Worthwhile, near Aberdeen, Thurs.
day morning tn liveryman to
visit farmers near by. They have
not been heard from, and are proba-
bly, dead. o. T. Owens and wife Of
Wentworth, Dakota, we're lost on
the prairie Friday night. They
were out eighteen and a bali hours.
and when found Mrs. Owens was
dead and he badly fiozen. At Pier.
re, Dakota, it is reported woman
and child were frozen TO death near
Canning; not yet confirmed. No
trains have moved at Pierre since
Thursday.
Mary ConDPl, % pretty school
teacher near CavOnr, started home
with two OF her pupils, a boy and
girl. The boy left them and perish
I'd. Miss Connel put her dress folds
about the little girl aud made her
walk all night. shelteriDg her charge
with her body. They were found
the next morning, alive but horribly
frozen. Another teacher, Miss ia
cobson, near Stoloff, started home
with little girl and bota persisted.
When found, Miss jacobson was
cr0ucbed in little hollow in the
ground, with her arms about the
little girl, and her dress skirt was
wrapped about her Her own bon
net was off her head, and her hand
clutched her dress at her throat, but
there was a smile on her face. Two
children, a boy and a girl Of Jose.
phlDe Hutchinson, near Garrick, we're
lost going home from school.
Twenty five men at once started on
the search for them, and the mother
could not be kept from going along.
The poor woman was with the party
who found them. They were lying
close together, and the boy had his
sisters hands between bis own.
Thursday afternoon, just before
the blizzard struck this point,
party OF seven farmers, about twenty
FIVE miles northeast of here, started
fer their homes, having been here
with wheat The report comes that
the bodies OF four of them have been
fouad dead. Searching parties are
out looking for the others. Mrs.
Knutson, of Rushmore, was found
frozen to death within forty feet Of
her door. Her husband was Dsent,