The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-19
HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR and MITTS.
81 East Washington St.
MORE STORM FATALITIES.
Reports from Nebraska and Iowa Materially
Increase the List of Dead

Reports from Nebraska and iowa Materially
Increase the List of Dead
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 18-Charles Gray, living
near Tekomah, died yesterday from exposure in
Thursdays storm. He wandered all night, and
was found half a mile from home by neighbors.
badly frozen. Miss Louie Royce, a school
teacher, eight miles from Plainview, had but
three pupils the day of the storm. She
started at o'clock with the children for house
about twenty rods distant, but lost her way
All lay down in the snow, and Miss Royce
wrapped up the little best she could.
Early in the night child died, later a second
one and just as morning broke the third child
succumbed to the cold Miss Royce then man
aged to reach the house, less than twenty rods
away. Both her feet are badly frozen, and they
will probably have to be amputated. A school
teacher and eight children, names unknown. are
reported from Neigh to have persisted. Five
men named Sickle. brothers, reported from
the same place to have been frozen to death;
also, an old man named Close and boy named
Miller. Mrs Miller. the boys mother, was also
badly frozen. and will lose both legs. She was
returning from the funeral Of another son when
caught in the storm.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Jan. 18.-TLe fatalities of the late
blizzard the prairie districts of Iowa are being
made public. Byron Cleveland, of Manchester,
Delaware county has received information that
his two sons aged fifteen and seventeen years,
were frozen to death during the storm, together
with ninety head of cattle. The boys were driv-
ing the cattle to water. about mile from the
dead bodies have just been found. The
cattle were frozen stiff John Olney
was found in snow drift near Marathon, frozen
dead. Miss Mae Henning aud a boy named
Julius. twelve years of age, started in q sleigh
to attend n party in company with two young
men, When the storm struck them they lost
aud the boy and reached a farm house in safety.
The deserted pair remained out in the storm all
night, and in the morning were found partially
covered with snow: The young lady will lose
both legs, and the boys hands and feet were
badly frozen. He was saved from death by the
brave girl, who wrapped him in the only blanket
left them
ST.. PAUL. Jan. Is-An evening paper figures
out list of 2l7 deaths by the blizzard, and adds
that the remains of many people who are re-
ported missing may not be found until the snow
melts in the spring, the bodies being covered by
deep drifts that formed over them.
Pioneer Press specials TO night give the names
of a number of additional victims. Two are re-
ported from Canton. OAK, a hired man twelve
miles north and a child seven miles south. The
driver of the team found frozen west of Canton
has not yet been discovered. dead or alive
Lewis A. Orsie, who resided in Dakota. twelve
miles south of Crystal City, has been missing
since the 9th instant He left Crystal City for
home that day. and has not yet reached home.
A man named Ssland. living near Brookings.
stock and was caught In the storm and perished.
He was seventy years old, and when found was
only twelve feet from his house
Cham berlain, OAK reports that Annie Ander
son. daughter Of Mrs. Nels Anderson. of Ola,
froze to death while going to school, Thursday
morning. Her remains have not yet been found.
Chamberlain has had train for eight days,
and the merchants running out of supplies.
Near Hutchinson, Mimi, the wife of Mr.
Lupke was so badly frozen, while out in Thurs
days blizzard, that she has just died in horrible
agony.
From Hand county. Dakota, comes the story
that Miss Maggie Dunn, who narrowly escaped
death In a storm last winter was frozen to death
while going from her school last Thursday.
From Aberdeen it is learned that the report
that a school teacher and sixteen children were
frozen, about fifteen miles west of there, is abb
solutely false.
The body of James Reed. farmer living
eight miles east of Hatton. D. T., was found
yesterday.