, 1888-01-22
BURNED TO A CRISP.
Ten Men Cremated at a Fire in
Minnesota.
Over 1,500 Persons Killed By
the Dakota Blizzard.
An Apache Indian Murders
His Wife and Child.
Terrible Loss of Life.

Terrible Loss of Life.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2I.-A Nebraska City
special says: Judge Kinney, agent of the
Yankton Sioux Indian reservation arrived
here yesterday. 1t took him five days to
go thirty miles, the thermometer being
4O' below zero most of the time. The
coal on the train ran low and the passen-
gers all crowded into one car, the men
discarding their outer garments and wrap
ping the women and children up in them.
Two babies persisted from cold. The
judge says the loss of life in Dakota is
underestimated, as the newspapers have
tried to cover it up.
While at the station in Bonhommc
county nineteen frozen bodies were brought
into the depot in one day. The loss in
the whole county will reach 160, and esti-
mates made in Yankton yesterday of the
loss of life through the territory figure up
over 1000 lives. The roads from the
agency TO Yankton were lined with dead
cattle, many farmers losing all they had.
Although a large number OF Indians were
out hunting during the storm, none are
missing.
HANOVER, n. H., Jan. 2l.-The mer-
curry dropped last night to the lowest point
this winter-24o to go below zero. At
Lyme it is 800 below and at Norwich, Vt,
it is 30o below.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2l.-The thermometer
registered l2' below zero last night. The
signal service man, however, says that all
indications are for warmer weather and
that there are no more cold waves in sight
at present,
MINNEAPoLIs, Jan. 2l.-This is the
mometcr registered 4So below last n;Gbt
and at 7 o'clock This morning stood NJ 10o
helow A. Cbinnewa File VIC i moo
CSC below last NIGHT
A sneciaI from Tovar ,;paty m;IeS north
of DnIntb saws tIat tho bc,rJin% hNrSa
| and saloon of Nelson Rarnahv brrnoJ Iost
night Manv of tho i,nn3to. innnnJ
fran the MINER stories and ton rerisbeJ
in the flames, Two otber hoarJina
hopses were burned bnt Tho imnntas
escaped Loss $40 600 The meranry
was $50 below and absoIntolv notbing
could be done to extingn;sb tbe fameS9
ST. PAM. Jan. oI-A Tower MINI
special to the Pioneer Press gives some
additional details of the boarding bonse
holocaust there last NIGHT. The VILLAGE
bucket brigade, while WORKING with ~
will, were able to do little toward snbdn-
ing the flames or reseuinp fine inmates
The dodgers fought desneratelv in the
narrow hall and stairway, but becoming
b~ewIldered, could not get air, A yonnp
girl who was i'll escaped uniniured. OF
the thirty people in the house it is
thought that nine or ten persisted. A
search for the bodies is progressing SLOWLY
amid the still smoking ruins. OF those
who Jumped from the windows Robert
Whitford was so badly hurt that he died
a few hours afterwards. Five bodies have
been taken from the ruins so far. Though
badly disigured, four of them are believed
to be W. II. Burns, Dan O'Conncll,
Mike Trump and Alex Brand.
Since the record Of $50 below zero on
New Years day, 1864, the mercury has
not fallen so low in St. Paul as last night,
when it touched 430 below. Brainard re-
ports 2O0 below zero at 8 O'Clock this
morning. The cold has interfered some