The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-21

ssnds are suffering for want Of both
tuel and FOOD, and in some counties aid
is needed to save many from starva-
tiou. The loss of life has been appal-
ing. The revised list prepared by the
Journal, of Minneapolis, Minnesota,
shows 81 dead in Dakota, II in Mime
sofa, 6 In Iowa, II in Nebraska, and 2
Montana, making a total of 1874, be.
sides So reported missing. Crops and
live stock everywhere have suffered
more or less.
Two sleepers and a chair car were
thrown from the Chicago, Kansas and
Nebraska Railroad, near Wilfrid, Kan.
sas, on the morning Of the 10th, by a
broken rail. A number of passengers
were injured, but only n severely,
namely, William Callahan, who lost an
arm. A passenger train on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad, on the 18th,
collided with a broken down freight
tram at P%ittsburg. Only one person
was severely injured, a mail clerk
named George Russell.
In Mississippi. as far south as
Summit, the earth was on the 18th,
covered with snow, sleet and ice.
Frederick Canister, who stabbed
George Bechtel In a bar-room fight III
Reading, Penna. and escaped from the
officers while being taken to Jail, about
a month ago, returned on the evening
OF The 18th, and gave himself mp. lie
was released In 5000 bail. Bechtel
appears to be recovering.
William Ii. Jewell, a politician
and farmer, was found in the court
house yard at Hastings, Michigan. on
the 18th, with his arms and legs frozen.
He died in a short time.
The cold weather still continues
in The Northwest, and additional re.
ports are being received of persons who
were frozen to death In the recent
blizzard. The past two nights were
the coolest aver known IN Chippewa
Falls, Wisconsin. On the morning of
the 18th spirit thermometers ranged
from So to 62 degrees below zero. A
despatch from Austin, Texas, says
the Colorado river for the first time
since the settlement of the country
was frozen over on the 18th the ice
| being from four inches to a foot thick
at Memphis, Tennessee. The blizzard
| which set in on the 18th wa still
raging on the 18th and business was
almost entirely suspended. The
ground is covered with ice to a depth
of eight inches. An old E%ngllshman
lost In the blizzard at Grand Forks,
Dakota, buried himself in the snow
and laid there all night, and escaped
| with a few touches of frost. The list
Of dead, prepared by the Erening Jour
nal of st. Paul, Minnesota, now foots
up 1913, and that Of the Erentng DIS
patch 159.
"A passenger tram on the Lake
Erie and Western Railroad was
wrecked on the Jporning of the 18th
near Blufingtons Ohio, by "a broken
rail. The smoke and ladies' car were
capsized, and dragged nearly 200 yards
before the train was stopped. Altar
Gilbert, Of Fostoria, Ohio, was killed.
Frank Mayo's "Nordeck" Company
was on the train and the following
members of it were. injured: Miss
Francis Graham, ankle dislocated and
back sprained. Edwin Nolod, left hand
crushed and afterwards amputated.
Neil Gray, cut On the head. Robert
Neil, thrown through window and
badly bruised about the head and
face. Lawrence johnson, right arm
broken. j. G. Harvey, head badly cut
with glass. The other passengers in
iured were +. w. Redding, G. H.
Ways and c. Young. of Findlay, none
fatally.
"A collision between two passenger
trains occurred on the Erie Railroad,
on the morning Of the 18th, between
Avoca and Ramona. Engineer May
nard was killed and Fireman Marsh
severely injured. A collision between
two snow pillow engines took place near
Hoskins, Nebraska, On the 18th. En-
gineer Oliver Sawyer was killed and
several other men were severely injured.
John Madden, the fourteenth victim
of the Bradford disaster, who was
injured at the tank house, died in
Haverhiil, Massachusetts, on the 18th.
A street car was struck by an express
train at a railroad crossing in Chicago,
on the 18th. Several passengers were
tumbled into a snow drift aud slightly
injured.
Reports from every part of North
ern Texas tell of unheard-of suffering
among the people, and wholesale de-
struction among cattle, many of which
were frozen to death under good
shelter.
An Italian tramp was on the morn
ing of the 18th, found frozen to death
on the road between Selin's Grove and
M~ifiintown, Penna.
Otto Sanders, alias William Frank
lin, shot his wife, in Cincinnati, on
the 18th. They had not lived together
for several weeks. 1t is thought the
woman is mortally wounded.
Charles L. Young, confidential
book-keeper for the Michigan Carbon
Company. in Detroit, was arrested on
the 18th, for a defalcation amounting
to $4,000.