Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-16
THE BILLIARDS. VICTIMS.
Several Names Added to the
Death Roll OF Saturday.

80. Robinson, A. j. Winters, Eliz
abe h Meth and Frank Weis-
ner Found in tbs Snow.
Tales of Terror from the Storm
Swept Prairie-A Night
Never to be Forgotten.
As the storm mutterings cease and
the weather relax es its severity the dire
results of the blizzard of last week are
coming to the knowledge of the survi
vors. Developments confirm the worst
fears and the halt hos not yet been told.
The bllzz ard yields up its victims slowly
and many a stifened corpse yet remains
undiscovered beneath its winding sheet
OF snow. From the thousand excited
romors that have made hideous the day
we have sifted the facts as accurately aa
possible. The record is q dismal one.
WINTERS AND RoBIsoN DEAD
The frozen bodies of j. o. Robson
and A.. j. Winters were found last night
hall buried in the snow near Bon
Homme, where they fell exhausted In
the storm of Thursday and yielded MP
their lives. These two men are in the
employ OF the Singer sewing machine
company, Mr.. Winters being general
western agent with residence at La
Crosse, Wisconsin. MI. Robson war O
representative OF the !. Perkins agency of
the Singer at Yankton and q residens OF
this city, on Walnut street near Second.
He leaves q vile and three children and
was thirty-eight years OF age. He had
lived In Yankton between. one and two
years. Mr. Winters was sixty years Of
sge and the father of O considerable
family OF grown up children, He was
we'll known throughout Dakota, Iowa,
Minnesota and Wisconsin and has 9
daughter living at Lisbon, Dakota. He
was an old time friend OF Judge Barnes,
OF this city.
These two men left Yankton by pri-
vate conveyance at $50 Thursday morn
ing for the farm residence OF Michael
Mcdonald. four and one half milea
southwest Of Tabor. They had been
missing since the storm and there was
great anxiety regarding their fate. This
is dispelled BY positive knowledge OF the
worst that could befall the hapless
travellers upon the blizzard dashed plain.
Their bodies we're found near Bon
Homme last night and were taken to
Tyndall from whence they will be
brought TO Yenkton.
r ELIZABETH METH.
inseiiissn6s comes to-day OF shs death
OF Mrs. Elizabeth Meth in the blizzard O,
Thursday. q Msyieid. north Yank-
ton county. Mrs. Meth left her home at
half past n o'clock Thursday after
noon, the beginning of the storm, to go
to a school house heal by after her little
daughter Matte, aged ten years. Mrs.
Neth's body wss found Friday in the
snow about q half q mile from the school
house. She had been Frustrated by the
storm and, unable to go FATHER, was
overcome by cold and perished. The
little daughter Hho was the object Of
her motherly solioitude remained in the
school house until the blizzard was over
and reached her home in safety.
just before the storm began Mr.. Meth
left home With a yoke OF cattle and Eve
COWS 90 drive them to q neighbours for
feed. The cattle all died in the storm.
MIR. Meth reached his home safely on
Friday and found there his two youngest
children, Edna, eight years old, and Tom
mie, three years old. Their mother had
died on the prairie, their father was but
feting the storm end fighting for his life,
their eldest sister was q prisoner in the
school house. The two little ones had
no fire during their lonely vigil, but
kept from freezing by the liberal use of
clothing.
Mrs. Meth was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs, Patrick Esriy, of this city, who
started this morning for the scene of
death, taking with them q coffin in
which 10 bury their dead daughter. Tom
Early, q brother OF the deceased, left
recently for California.
AN UNKNOWN vIoTIM.
The body Of an unknown man was
found Saturday near Utica, a half q
mile from the old Burdick farm, and
taken TO the Utica school house. Coroner
4cGlumphy was notified. He went to
the scene this morning, accompanied
by Fred Meth, Who thinks from the des-
criptlon that he can identify the de.
ceased as the hired man of Mr.. Bartl,
. farmer living nesr LesterYille.
Later-It is learned that the unknown
mans name 10 Frank Weisner. He was
only o hundred yards from the house in
which he lived when the storm shut in
around him and sent him on his death
tramp.
AN UNKNOWN BODY,
A Bohemian named Chop arrived in
town this afternoon who says he saw the
frozen body OF man lying alongside
the Bon Homme road, q couple OF miles
west OF Lakeport. He left the body
where he found il.
TWo MORE DEATHS,
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