Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-23


er by the arms, three abreast. TIL
Youngest child she took in her arm
after tying the end of the twin
around her own body. Selecting he
way carefully, she led her littl
charges with words of encouragement
through deep drifts and the blindin.
blizzard to a farmhouse, three-quar
tiers of a mile distant, and where al
were taken in.
Two reports of freezing to dealt
were received at Fort W orth, Texas
Tuesday in addition to those received
on Monday. A tramp, whose nam,
is unknown, was found stiff near Hen
rietta. A negro named jackson anC
another colored man were frozen tt
death near Waco.
An evening paper at St. Paul, fig
ures out list of 217 deaths by the
| blizzard, and adds that the remains
of many people who are reported
missing may not be found until the
snow thaws in the spring. Pioneer
Press specials give the names of 8
number of additional victims.
Chamberlain, Oak, reports that
Annie Anderson, daughter of Mrs.
Nels Anderson of Ola, frOze to death
while going to school Thursday morn
ing. Chamberlain has had no train
for eight days, and the merchants are
running out of supplies. Near Hutch
inson, Mimi, the wife of Mr.. Luke
was so badly frozen while out in
Thursdays blizzard that she has just
died in horrible agony. From Hand
county, Oak, comes the story that
Miss Maggie Dunn, who narrowly es-
capped death in storm last winter,
was frozen to death while going from
her school last Thursday. The report
that school teacher and 16 children
were frozen about ID miles west of
Aberdeen is false.
The storm was severe about Sauter
Agency, Neb., and some lives were
lost and there was great damage to
stock, but no particulars. j. Millbyer
frozen at Lesterville, OAK, has since
died. This makes only three dead
reported in Yankton county.
A special from Burnet, Tex, says
Reports are beginning to come in
from the wheat districts of serious
damage to that cereal, and it is feared
every field of winter wheat in Burlett,
Llano, Adams and other counties
along the Colorado River has been
entirely destroyed by the severe frost.
Definite reports of the loss of cattle
during the recent blizzard are slowly
coming in, although every ranchman
admits heavy losses. Sheep men re-
port a loss of from two to twelve
head out of every flock. The Brazos
and Colorado Rivers are frozen solid,
something never known before.
A dispatch from ST. Paul says: A
great deal of solicitude is felt for the
people of Browns Valley, village of
1900 people in Traverse county,
Mimi, on the border of Dakota. The
place is in the region where casual
ties were greatest IN the blizzard of
Thursday, and no reports have been
received directly from them for sever
al days. Browns Valley is on a
branch of the Manitoba Road, running
southwest from Morris, forty-six
miles. No trains have run to Brown S
Valley since Christmas and telegraph
ic communication is interrupted. Be
sides, the country roads are banked
full of snow to depth of four feet
on level and are impossible every
where. Many carloads of fuel con-
signed to Browns Valley are block
AIDED at Morris, and large force of
men is engaged in opening up the
line, but trains cannot be got running
for three or four days.
The Journals Pierre Oak spec
ial, Jan. 10, says: Trains have been
ordered to await the abatement of the
storm. The signal officer at Fort
Sully reports another blizzard from
the north, and predicts a terror. The
mercury is now ID degrees below zero
and still falling.