The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-20
AVILLAGE WITHOUTFUEL
GREAT sOLCITUDE FELT FOR TEE
INHABITANTS.


Every Road Leading to the Place
Made impossible by Snow - No
Trains Have Run There Since Christ
mas How the Cattle Weathered the
, Blizzard in Texas.
I CHICAGO, Jan. 19.-A special from Bur
nett, Tex, says: Reports are beginning to
come in from the wheat districts of serious
damage to that cereal, and it is feared that
every field of wheat in Burnett, Lano, Will
son and other counties along the Colorado
river have been entirely destroyed by the
severe frost. Definite reports of loss of cat
tie during the recent blizzard are slowly
coming in, although every ranchman ad-
mts heavy loss of cattle during the recent
blizzard. Sheepmen report the loss of
| from two TO twelve out of
every flock. The Brazos and Colorado
rivers are frozen sohd, something never
known before. The failure of the crops last
year reduced the supply of feed for cattle,
so that during the cold spell herds were
without water or food. Reports from the
| grazing districts of the State say THAI the
cattle on the southwestern ranges weathered
! the great blizzard in very good shape. The
/ iOSS was COuHueu entirely 10 SlChly anu
| poorly fed stock. \ great many large herds,
however, were frost bitten about the legs,
| and since the weather has moderated their
| legs have swollen to almost twice their nat
ural size"
A VILLAGE AT WINTERS MERCY.
A dispatch from st. Paul says: "a great
deal of solicitude is felt for the people of
Browns Valley, village of 1,500 sous, in
Traverse county, Minnesota, on the border
of Dakota. The place is in a region where
| the casualties were greatest in the blizzard
of last Thursday, and no reports have been
! received directly from them for several
| days. Browns Valley is on a branch of the
! Manitoba road. running southwest from
| Morris forty-six miles No trains have run
to Browns Valley since Christmas and tele-
| graphic communication is Interrupted. Be-
! sides, the country roads are banked full of
| snow to depth of four feet on the level
and are impossible everywhere. On Sun
| day afternoon a man walked across
the country on snow shoes from Browns
| Valley to Beardslee, a place eight miles
away and reported that there was neither
pound Of coal or a stick of firewOOd in the
village, and that the sufferings of the people
could not be described He said that after
burning ali their own fuel they made a raid
upon the Manitoba roundhouse and confis-
Gated all the coal stored there
When this supply was exhausted
the railroad buildings We're torn down and
chopped into firewood. After telling his
story the man begged a sack of coal, threw
it across his shoulder and tramped back to
his family. Many carloads of fuel consigned
to Browns Valley are blockaded at Morris,
and a large force of men is engaged in
opening the line. but trains cannot be rum
ming for four or five days"
TERROR PREDICTED.
MINNEAPOLIS MINI, Jan. ia special
| from Pierre, Oak, to the Journal says:
| Trains have been ordered TO wait the
abatement of the storm. The signal officer
at Fort Sully reports another blizzard ora
| the North and predicts a terror. The mer-
! curry is now 15' below zero, and is still fall
ing"
| FROZEN TO DEATH IN THE SADDLE.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. ia special from Paris,
! Tex, says: 1.-THE long cold spell began to
moderate to-day aud the snow is melting.
! Stories Of suffering are coming il. An old
man, named Tad Gray, living about six
miles frcm Ladonia, in this county, on Sat
urday started home facing the blizzard. His
| horse went up to his gate and stopped. The
man had literally frozen to death in the sad
die and sat stiff and upright
! ICE AT sTAUNToN.
! STAUNToN. VA, Jan. 19-It grew sud
! denly cold here last evening and ice four
inches in thickness formed during the
night.
STILL RAGING IN DAKOTA.
ST PAUL, MINI Jan. 19-The Pioneer
| Press learns from WahpetOn, Oak, that the
| storm which began at 10 o'clock last night
is raging furiuusly tonight Trains on the
! Milwaukee road have been abandoned.
| The Northern Pacific branch is closed.
Manitoba trains are two and half hours
late. The wind Is north northwest and the
temperature 80 below zero.
WIND AND SNOW AT HURON.
| The Pioneer Press learns from Huron,
| Oak, that high wind and snow prevailed
! there nearly all of last night. The wind
and snow have abated but little to-day, and
the inevitable blockade is on again. The
Chicago train due there at noon is snow
bound east of Tracy, Minn.
A BLIZZARD IN IOWA.
DEs MONIES, IA, Jan. 19.-The mercury
has been steadily falling all day. and TO-
night promises TO be one Of the coolest of
the season. In Northern Iowa a blizzard
has been raging. All trains have been
abandoned at Mason City The thermome-
ter recorded 25' below zero there tonight
VERY COLD AT oPELoUsAs.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. ia special from
Opelousas SAYS: THE coldest weather ex-
! the past four days. Sleet and ran fell
alternately Monday and Tuesday. covering
the trees with ice an inch thick The
ground has been frozen ever since. Busi-
ness has been practically suspended and
travel has been almost stopped on account
of the impossible condition Of the roads,
SEVERE AT BROWNSVILLE.
| BROWNSVILLE, TEX, Jan. l9.-The
weather here during tie last week has been
very severe. Tolegraphic communication
has been interrupted since Friday. Monday
was the coldest day experienced on this
! frontier since 1880, the temperature being
| 81 December 81 and January / of these
years THIS year the mercury fell to 49,.
On both sides Of the river stock
has suffered much and there has been con
siderable loss in cattle, horses, and sheep es-
pecialiy Poor and lily prepared people
have suffered terribly On Tuesday beeves
we're killed and distributed in the market
by Senior Villaroal. President # the Red
Club. and to-day the Blue Club distributed
nearly 500 large rations of beef and corn
and supplied wood to the poor
SHOWING IN NOVA SCOTIA.
HALIFAX, y. S., Jan. 10 The first snow
storm of the season is now prevailing, and
is one Of the heaviest for years The Quebec
&. bobipI