The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-20
BITTER EuREAs BLASTS.
The Worst Storm Within the Meuacr
of the Oldest Inhabitants Visits
Eastern Dakota.
Two Hundred Reported TO Rave
Pelisl,ed in the Terrible Storm
OF Thursday. TIE 18th inst.

Recent advices from eastern d akota
indicate that this has been. so far, the
most severe winter that has been cs-
perienled in that section for many
years. Snow is two or three feet dcep
aud drifted so as to render the roads
almost if not wholly impossible: trains
are blockaded, fuel is getting scarce
and high, the "grubstake' is in many
eases almost exhausted. and people who
venture outside their own door yards
do so at the risk of their lives. News
papers are filled with accounts of
numerous deaths and horrible suffer-
ings resulting from the intense cold
and incessant billiards..
The revised list of blizzard fatalities
resulting from Thursdays storm shows
ninety-seven dead in Dakota. thirteen
in Minnesota, six in Iowa, seventeen in
Nebraska. and two i'll Montana. Total
1876, hfty-five persons are also re-
ported missing. a Faulkton special
sayS that six persons are known tohave
per1hed near there. and it is run.ored
that six or seven others are lost. Re.
65Hxts from Yankton are to the effect
that the loss of life and damage 10
property isNSappalling. Mrs. JOSEPH
Netf. north of'Yankton. started a short
distance to get a child home from ths
school house, and got b%cwlldcred an(
froze near her home. The dead bod,
of a man was found at Utica, sever
miles north and brought to Yankton
A man named Bruce deserted his team
near home and wandered twenty mile.
when he was found and brought t,
the city badly frozen in the hands
feetand face. His condition is critical
j. o. Robinson of Yankton and A. j
Winters of La Crosse. sewing machin,
men, who lleft Yankton Thursda,.
morning by team We're found dea'
! between the villages of Tyndall an,
Springfield. Other parties are missin.
and it is feared are lost. Mrs. I
Bumbas, living four miles north o
Tyndall. was lost while going to fee
her chickens and frozen to death. J
Bohemian woman, name unknown
living south of Tabor, has been foun
dead. An eight year old Ison of Mi
tfli,; ing west of Tyndall. was caush
by the blizzard while gong home frol
school and frozen to death. A ma
! heloning to the Brown ranch, twent
miles south of Yankton in Nebvask
was lost on the prairie and is deat
Mrs. Stout a school teacher four mile
west is lost. Charles Goddard age
sixteen living south of Tyndall wa
i'll the storm and has not been hea,
from. Two unknown men nes
Tyndall are missing. The body of a
unknown man was seen on the DO
Homme road twelve miles from1 Yam,
ton Monday. One man was frozen
death near Armour. Another de;
body Nels Lyon was found near Sprin
field. Rev. H. Hyid left Yankton f
bon Homme Thursday and has n
becn heard from. 1t is stated til
TWENTY-FIVE persons lost their lives
Bon Homre county. Ten telegraph
stations in south Dakota report twent
one dead, fourteen badly frozen al
thirteen missing. The loss of Gait
will go into the thousands. Jac
Kluz, of Lelterville, froze to deaf
Mrs. Anna Wilson with some nj
scholars, are missing from nine mi