Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-01-16
DEATH LIST FROM DAKOTA.


Return Alive.
| HURON, d. T., Jan. l6.--The bodies of
| Frank and William Nirlson, who were found
dead on the prairie near Virgil, we're brought
| here Sunday evening, and will be forwarded
| to Chicago by the first train to their father,
| X Nirison, who is interested in a carriage
| and wagon factory there. The young men
almost threw away their lives for their
| friend Wilson. He had come to their home
Thursday morning to work for them. While
| there the blizzard arose-a storm that no man
could face very long and live. Wilson very
| frequently spoke of his children, who had
gone to school that morning, and was fear
full for their safety. Late in the afternoon
he could restrain his fatherly feelings no
longer aud said he was going TO the school
house to take care of them. The Nirisons at
once said; "Then we will go with you"
All set out afoot. Friday morning the three
wSsa found, widely separated, on the prairie,
both Of the brothers dead in the snow, and
Wilson hlindly struggling on, almost I'M
conscious OF his condition. His suiferings
are great, but it is thought he will not lose
any limb1 The children are at the school
and warm
A little Bathrick girl was lost all one night
with Miss Mary Cornell, her teacher, and
can not live. A Nswcomb boy was with
them, and froze to death. The teacher will
not suffer permanently.
Widow Phillips and her grandson were
frozen in Jerauld county, south Of here They
had remained in their sled all night, and left
1t before daybreak to flnd shelter. Both
persisted before going mile.
Gilkinson, milkman, has been hunted for
since Friday morning. but has not been dis
covered Adam Corner is still missing.
Lewis Merrman and his son, farmers of
Sphinx county, lost their lives ny tue storm
Friday night. The boy died within few
feet of home but the father staid out in the
field, where the son had left him.
Another man and son in the same county
tried to go hom- in the storm, the father car
rying his little boy most of the way. The
exercise and anxiety saved the parents life,
but the child will die. ,..--
The weather appears to he settled, as it is
calm. Saturday night it was 50 below. At
o o'clock Sunday evening it was 12 below.
Hundreds of men are digging out the various
lines of the Northwestern road.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. l6-The loss of life
by the great blizzard Thursday is shown to
have been very great, by far the largest
number Of casualties being reported from
Dakota points. At Chester, MINI. six chill
dren of James Baker were frozen to death
Friday afternoon while returning from
school The following is a summary of the
dead and missing, but the list will be largely
augmented when the returns are all
in: At Adrian, Mimi, John OAR
ing; Hitchcock, D. T., Emil Gilbert
son; Mitchell, d. T., George Allen, Jr. !;
and Joseph Anderson; Minot d. r., James
Smith and two sons; Raymond, d. T.,
William Drivers two SIMS and Charles
Heath; Omaha, Neb., Frederick Eller, cigar
maker; young lady, name not reported,
and Wexwell Beck, aged years; Poster,
Nsb., George w. Post; David City, Neb.,
child of John Denlinger; Sioux City, Ia, an
unknown man; Belgrade, M. T., William
Overman; Marysville, NJ T., Patrick Hanley;
Luverne, Mimi, John 10y; Inwood,
Ia, Mr.. Fitzgerald's two children:
Aberdeen, D. T., William Love and |
Judson Westgate; Bodie, D. IT,, Mr.. Paine;
Roscoe, D. T., Peter Terhune; Virgil, D. T.,
Frank Nirison, William Nirison and Joseph |
Wilson; Iriguois, D. T., Mrs. Deveine, Adam |
Corner and J. w. Goslee; Barkston, d. T.,
W. B. Headly; Delamere, D. T.. Miss Core |
Curtis; Bookings, D. T., a young man
started to go into the country Thursday and |
can not be found 1t is feared he has per-
ished Several others had narrow escapes;
Hitchcock, D. T., Lewis Merriman, aged 80,
and his son Halle, aged Is, persisted in
storm. Mr.. Merriman was born
near Hartford, Conn, and lived several
years at Dixon Ills