The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1888-01-21

far south as Texas and the Gulf States. In
Kansas thousands are suffering for want of
both fuel and food, and in some counties aid
is needed TO save many from actual starvation
The storm, while of course less severe in Ar
kansas, Texas and other Southern States, still
found the people there unprepared for it, and
much suffering resulted. Crops and live stock
have everywhere suffered more or less. Last
nights reports swelled the death roll until
there are over one hundred people known to
have persisted in Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska
ard Montana All the dispatches indicate
that the death lists are still far from complete.
The figures given ;hclude only the fatalities
reported yesterday, and many others are
doubtless yet unrecorded.
KANSAS CRY, No., JAN 16.-Saturday and
last night we're the coolest ever experienced
in this section, the thermometer registering
10 degrees below zero yesterday morning, and
at no time yesterday did the mercury get above
four below. A few cases of freezing have
been reported to the police in this city, but
the reports that come from Western Kansas
are appalling. The billiards that ragged
through that section a few weeks ago left the
people in such bad condition that they were
unable to stand the severe weather of the past
"a hours, and large number of deaths from
cold and starvation are known to have &C.
Cured A carload of provisions was started
Yesterday from Wichita to Ashland, Clark
county, but the storm stopped the train. 1t
is estimated that three thousand people in
Clark county are in destitute condition, and
unless immediate relief is afforded them the
number of deaths will be fearful to contem-
plate. The pastor of the Presbyterian Church
in Hartland, Kearney county, writes to the
aid society imploring assistance for the people
r Il. boA 1,1f
soon come hundreds must die. The casualties
among stock have been greater than ever
known in the state of Kansas. Horses and
cattle have persisted in their stalls, and the
owners have been badly frozen while attempt
ing to care for them. On the Missouri Pacific
Railroad two train loads of cattle coming in
from the West were caught in the blizzard,
and every animal was frozen to death. As
most of the cattle on the western range of the
Indian Territory are new Texas stock, the loss
will be very great, they being unused to such
low temperatures.
DENVER, Jan. l6.-Saturday night was one
of the coolest ever known in the Rocky Noun
tain country, the mercury falling to 26 below
zero at some points.
MILWAUKEE, January 16.-Specials to the
Evening Wisconsin from various portions of
Wisconsin indicate that last night was the
coolest in years The thermometer at the
Washburn Observatory, Madison, registered
30 below. Eau Claire reports 4S below, Rich
land Center So, Sparta 50 and Chippewa Falls
GO.
AUSTIN, TEXAS, Jan. ia severe STERN
struck this section Saturday night, causing
the mercury to drop from IA to % degrees in
an hour. Atmidnight it was down to 10 above
zero. The mercury has never been known to
be below ten in this section, and this is the
first time it has reached that point since 1864
GALVESTON, TEXAS, Jan. 16.-The Dakota
blizzard struck the Gulfof Mexico at this point
at l o'clock Sunday morning, causing fall
in the temperature of so degrees in two hours.
By Sunday evening the Telegraph and tele-
phone wires leading from the mainland into
the city were all carried down by the heavy
coating of ice which had formed on them, and
the city was entirely cut off from telegraphic
communication for nearly "a hours. The
weather is the most severe experienced here
since January, 1885. The mercury to- day in
dictated 20 degrees.
JACKSON, Miss, January 16.-The coolest
weather of the season prevails throughout the
state, extending as far south as Summit.
The earth is covered with sleet, snow and ice.
New ORLEANS, Jan. 1G.-Freezing weather
is reported all over North Louisiana, extend
ing as far south as Baton Rouge. Snow and
SleeJ arc TepOIlGu dl DulCSfCpOii, hlcAahuii"
Ruston and other points.
BRAINERD, MINN.. Jan. 16.--Lumbermen
from Little Falls, who have crossed the coun-
try from Princeton, confirm and give few
additional details regarding the rumored muir
der of an entire family. They state that III
the Swedish settlement, about twenty miles
from Princeton, a farmer named Henry Os-
trum murdered his family, consisting of a
wife and seven children. He gave as his
reason for the crime that he feared they would
freeze to death.
Dispatches on Tuesday night state 200 per-
sons were frozen to death by the recent biz
card. and thousands of horses and cattle were
lost. The suffering is very great and appre-
hension is felt that the loss of life will be
largely added to, as the weather remains cold.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Jan. 1.-THE past
two nights were the coolest ever known in
this region. Sunday at s O clock in the morn
ing spirit the rmometers indicated so below,
at noon % below. This morning it ranged
from 80 to 81 below. The poor commission;
ers are beseged with appeals, and the poor
house is crowded.
DrBrQuE, Iowa, Jan. 11.-Reports from
the northern part of Iowa give Sunday night
as the coolest period in the present decade,
the temperature ranging all the way from %
to 40 below.
ALEXANDRIA, MINI, Jan. lit is re-
ported that 81 school children are missing in
Turner county Three children of Mr.. Heines,
northwest of Lennox. persisted while going
home from school. The lady teacher argued
and pleaded with the scholars not to leave the
schoolroom, and finally locked the doors, but
they were too many for her and had their own
way. One scholar, aged II, was among the
lost. Mr.. Heines wanted to kill the school
mistress. but the explanation OF the scholars
exonerated her. This makes seven children
lost in the vicinity of Lennox
At jamestown, Dakota, the jamestown and
Northern Railroad has been blocked by snow
for three weeks, and much loss of life is feared
among the trainmen.
A despatch from Austin, Texas, says: The
Colorado river, for the first time since the
settlement of the country was frozen over
Tuesday, the ice being from four inches to a
foot thick. Reports from the stock ranges
are meagre, but stockmen fear the loss has
been great on the plains and prairies.
AT Memphis, Tenn, on Tuesday there was
a fall in the mercury to zero, and business
was suspended as the people were not pre-
pared for such extreme cold. Snow fell to
the depth of inches.
THE LATEST.
Dispatches on Thursday night state that
another blizzard is prevailing. In some places
at II o clock the mercury WAS - below zero
and falling rapidly with the wind from 40 to so
miles an hour. Browns Valley. village of
1900 population, in Dakota is entirely without
fuel and food, and has had no railroad COM
munication since Christmas.