Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-23
The Great Blizzard.

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ing as far south as Texas, is the most
severe one that has visited that sec
ton since 1873. The weather on the
morning of that fatal day was very
pleasant, and most of the farmers who
had business away from home were
away In the afternoon cloud
swept down from the northwest with
binding snow, fierce wind and fall
ing temperature. The snow so filled the
air that it was impossible to see OBJ
jects a few rods away; it was not
possible to follow roads except along
the line of fences, and many persisted
within few rods of their own houses.
During the night the winds kept on
blowing and the mercury fell below
zero, and in some sections to so de-
grees below. The sparsely populated
sections suffered most, but in cities
and towns children were lost and per-
ished. The following extracts from
the daily papers show how terrible
the storm was:
Two more victims of the storm are
reported in Northern Hurd county,
Oak. A farmer who starts for doc
tor was found thirty-six hours after
ward 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 school teacher and sixteen
school children at Clear Lake town
ship in Eastern Edmund county, at
first discredited. is true. Parties who
have come from Warner, Dakota,
state that the bodies of the teacher
and six children have been found.
H. w. Chaplin of Minneapolis, sup
posed to have been lost, arrived in
Aberdeen on the night of the 18th
inst. Highmore, Oak, reports that
Sister Wilimeva, of Stephen Mission,
20 miles south of Aberdeen, OAK,
was canght by the blizzard on her re-
turn fEom the home of the priest.
The quarter section, within which the
mission buildings are, is fenced in,
and when she was found by search
ers, who used a rope to guide them,
she was standing up and still alive.
She was carried to her room, where
she died. Mrs. Anthony Haby, 20
miles north, is reported lost. Word
comes from Wolseley, near Huron,
Dakota, of two more deaths.
A Yankton, OAK, correspondent
says: 'Only two deaths are reported
so far in Yankton county, and two in
Clay. In Bonhomme county, 10
deaths are reported. From South
Dakota 104 deaths are reported. In
Bonhomme county. 200 head of froz-
en- cattle were counted in one place
40 at another. Dead cattle and
hogs may be seen along the road
from Yankton to Springfield. The
snow-drifts ars said to be thirty feet
deep. Some persons missing are yet
unaccounted for. Adrian, Mimi,
says Balzer Parlung, a German, aged
20, was lost in Thursdays storm
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb.,
says fifteen persons persisted in
Thursdays storm in Custer county
alone. The loss is said to be enor-
nous. Particulars are not yet OBJ
| tainable.
Charles Gray, living near Teko-
NAH, Neb., died the 18th inst. from
exposure in Thursdays storm. He
walked all night between his horses
to keep from freezing, and was found
half mile from home badly frozen.
| Miss Louise Royce, school teacher,
eight miles from Plainview, had but
three pupils on the day of the storm.
She started at 2 o'clock with the chill
| dren for a house about 20 rods dis
tant, but lost her way. All lay down
in the snow land Miss Royce wrapped
up the children as best she could.
Early in the night one child died and
| later a second one, and just as morn
| ing broke the third child succumbed
to the cold. Miss Royce then man
aged to reach the house, less than
twenty rods away. Both her feet are
badly frozen, and they will probably
have to be amputated. A school
teacher and eight children, names I'M
known, are reported from Neigh to
have persisted. Five men, named
Sickle Brothers, are reported from
the same place to have frozen to
death; also an old man named Close
and a boy named Miller. Mrs. Mill
er, the boys mother, was also badly
frozen and will lose both limbs. She
was returning from the funeral of
another son when caught in the storm
Tho fatalities of the late blizzard
on the prairie districts of Iowa are
being gradually made public. Byron
| Cleveland of Manchester, Delaware
county, has received information
that his two sons, aged Is and IL
years, were frozen to death during
the storm, together with ninety head
of cattle. The boys were driving the
cattle to water, about mile distant,
when the blizzard struck them, and
their dead bodies were not found for
several days. The cattle were froz-
en- stiff. John Olney was found in
snowdrift near Marathon, frozen dead.
Miss Mae Henning and boy named
| julius, II wears of age. started on a