Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-17

toes anu tueu IL seemed tnAb Ms mao Qi6Q
Just as he had raised the right foot TO
take o step, the left resting naturally on
the ground. His arms were elevated
With the hands raised nearly to the
height of the face and tightly clenched.
The face is bloated and stresked with
blood. The mouth is partly open and is
screwed around toward his right ear.
Sach o sight is seldom seen.
HoRAcE CLARK AND WIFE.
The story OF the adventures of Mr.. and
Mrs. Il. L. CLARK. who spent that night
on the prairie, comes to us.
They we're about fourteen miles out on
their way homeward when overtaken by
the storm. They, like every body else,
became bewiidered and lost the road.
After wandering about for q time they
we're compelled to leave. the team, and
finding q hay stack they took up quar-
tiers for the night. When morning came
one OF Mrs. Clark's limbs was frozen.
AS they did not get home until Sunday
evening it is believed shat they remain
ed at q farm house over Friday and Sat.
urday. On Sunday evening they stop
ped at the Gordon farm house, whore
the Manitoba surveying party is located,
and which is only four miles from their
" home. The fact that they are alive
is sufficient for coneratnlation. Their
team vas found in some timber on Set.
urday badly used up.
NELs MADsEE's ESCAPE.
The story of the escape OF q Nor
wegian man named NeIs MadseD, liv.
ing nea Walshtown. is worthy
of attention. He left his home
on Thursday morning to go to another
locality to dig q we'll. While he Wal at
work the blizzard arrived and he started
for home. In the course OF time his
feet became cold, and be removed his
boots, threw them out and wrapped
his pedal extremities in gunny sacks.
When he threw his boots away he elso
lost 8 spade and q scarf. Soon after this
he found o small shed within which he
sought refuge, but before he had time
10 enc; it long the roof OF the shed
tumbled in and he was forced to get out.
He drew his team close up against the
south side, placed his back against the
wall and there ae stood the whole night
through, stamping his feet and rubbing
his hands. In the morning his neigh
bors turned out Il find him and when
they found the SNOW drift with his boots,
spade and scarf on top of it they pro-
ceeded to dig to the bottom, expecting
TO find the man. It was while engaged
in this work that Mr.. Madsen himaeli
drove up as clipper as the morning
breeze. But u Of his hands is slightly
frozen.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE sTosM.
Travellers report snow drifts IN Bon
aomme and west Yankton counties
thirty feet deep.
jacob Kurtz, frozen to death neal
Lesterville, had m arm broken and bic
face iaeerated, probably in struggling in
the deep snow with his team.
Coroner McGiumphy does not deem
it necessary to hold inquests on the
bodies Of the blizzard victims.
The ema,ns of A. J Waters will be
shipped to La Crosse, Wisconsin, and
the remains OF J. o. Robson to Yankton,
A. g. Twogood left Yankton for his
Nebraska ranch on the morning of the
blizzard and has not been heard from.
Several farmers mention the fact that
q half hour or SO before the blizzard
struck, their cattle came In from the
pastures on the run and very mnoh sx,
cited. Brute instinct is sometimes
superior to human reasoning.
The report brought in yesterday that
g frozen body was lying alongside The
Bon Homme road near Lskeport Wal
probably the creation Of an excited i'm
sgination. A search reveals DO body.
Reports OF the storm from Nebraska
to-day are that no deaths have beer
heard of, but thai live stock general,
is scarce. Nebraska people were IL
doors during ths storm.
The Death Roll.
From the reports received during the
pest few days We compile the following
list by counties. in Dakota. of the knowr
dead, victims OF the blizzard Of the 18th
inst. In this List only those whose
bodies have been found and whose re.
mains have been identified are included
Each county reports some unknown
dead and many missing who are proba
bly, dead. The actual list to date rum
as follows:
BON HoMME COUNTY.
j. 0. Robinson, A. j. Winters. Nell
Halliburton, Mrs. r. Bambas, son @