The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-15
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CORPSES IN THE DRIFTS.
A SCRoOL TEACHER PERISHES AT
della MORE.

AT Sioux Falls Man Was Stiffened in
Death While Standing Beside His
Barn - Ten Men Believed to Have
Perished Near Aberdeen - Trainmen
Without Food.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-Dispatches from
the Northwest record a number of deaths
by freezing in the recent blizzard. A school
teacher named Miss Custer, was frozen to
death on her way home from school at
Deamore, Oak.
Near Sioux Falls man W. found dead
standing beside his barn, and anotfleS lay
all night within half a mile of town in a
snow bank between his horses, thus saving
his life.
Three children at Garrison, Neb, got lost
going home from school and remained out
all night. One was dead when found. The
other two may recover.
w. B. Headly was frozen to death near
Barkston, Oak
Two men were frozen to death near
Marysvile, Mont.
A farmer named Allen and his son were
caught near Mitchell, Oak, and the son
was frozen to death, and the father will
lose both his arms. Another is lost in the
same neighborhood, and a freight train is
blockaded nine miles from Mitchell and the
crew have had nothing to eat since
Wednesday.
In the neighborhood Of Aberdeen Oak,
ten men we're caught by the storm at diff
terent points; four have been found dead.
The others are probably dead, but have not
been found. The loss of live stock is i'm
mense; some actually froze to death in stalls
in their stable Two belated stock trains
from Nebraska arrived at St Joseph, Mo-,
last night with every head of cattle dead.
The list of persons frozen to death and
missing in the storm published in st. Paul
foots up thirty-six, but later dispatches from
towns IN Dakota alone show the number to
be much greater, and additions are con-
stantly being made The number of children
lost is remarkable, due to the fact that
many of them started from school
after the storm began and fami-
lies visiting neighbors started home to
care for their stock. Many pathetic in
cidents are related of the sufferings of chill
dren, and the heroic efforts of parents to
save them. In one instance father saved
his son by covering HIM up in
snow drift but lost his own life. The wind
has abated. but the cold has not materially.
Another blizzard is reported coming from
Manitoba.
SNOW CRUSHED IT DOWN.
MIDDLETowN, N. Y, Jan. 14.-A num-
Der Of men undertook yesterday to brace
up shed roof heavily loaded with snow,
when it gave way, killing three carpenters
and injuring seven others, two Of whom will
die.
HIGHWAYS BLOCKED.
CHICAGO, Jan. 14-The storm at Galena
yesterday blockaded the highways The
drifts in some places were Is feet deep. No
trains on the illinois Central or Chicago and
Northwestern roads reached there yester-
day. The blockade on the latter road, be-
tween Galena and Madison, will not be raised
for several days. Stock about Moweaqua
suffered intensely from the sudden change
i'll the temperature and number of losses
by freezing are reported by farmers.
THE WORST OVER IN WISCONSIN.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. A-The storms back
is broken, and the railroads have gone
patiently to work to burrow their way
through the hard-packed SNOW. The snow
is as hard and as heavy az sand, and battles
the snow plows. The only train in at the
union depot yesterday was the Wis
consin Central's. Two east-bound North
ern Pacific trains came in this morning,
eighty and fifty hours late. One of them
had been showed in fifty miles west of here
for seventy-two hours. The Northern Pa
cific road has had an excellent opportunity
TO test the rotary snow plows, and with en-
tire success Over 200 miles OF track in
Dakota, with snow averaging fifteen feet
deep, have been cleared by one plow in six
teen hours This is an unparalleled achieve
ment