The Portland daily press., 1888-01-19
DETAILS OF SUFFERING.
one Hundred and Four Dead In
In Southern Dakota.
How Plucky Teacher, with a Ball OF
TwIne, Saved Her Pupils.
A Days Report Of the sufferIngs and
Fatalities.

ABERDEEN, OAK, Jan. 1s.-Two more vie
tins Of the storm in Northern Hurd county,
are reported. A farmer who started
for doctor was fund 36 hours afterwards
with his horse standing beside his dead
body
A man living six miles east Of Millard left
his home, telling his wife that if the storm
increased he would stay at the town. He
has not yet been found. The report Of the
death of a school teacher and 16 children at
Clear Lake township, in Eastern Edmund
county, at first discredited, Is true People
who live near the place state that the bodies
Of the teacher and six children have been
| found.
II. w. Chaplin of Minneapolis, supposed
| to have been lost, arrived In Aberdeen last
night.
Highmore, Oak, reports that Sister Will
mena of Stephen Mission, 20 miles south Of
there. was caught by the blizzard on her re-
turn from the home Of priest The quar-
ter section, within which the mission build
ings are, is fenced in, and when she was
found by searchers, who used a rope to
guide them, she was standing up and still
alive. She was carried to her room, where
she died.
Mrs. Anthony Haby, 25 miles north of
Aberdeen, is reported lost.
Word comes from Wolseley, near Huron,
Of two more deaths. A boy Of 16, Burdett
Schofeld, left Wolseley just before the
storm set in with load of coal, going to
| his home five miles SOUTH He unfastened
| the team from the sled and went some dis
tance, when the horses got stuck in snow
drift. There he left them. His body was
| found five miles from the sled.
A family named Druse live on a farm nine
miles southwest of Wolseley. Katharine
| Will nj
90 rods from the house, when the storm sud
denly came up. Katharine started for the
house, but lost her way. The next morning
her body was found 40 rods from the house.
Those reported most severely frozen are
improving and may recover. A 1ankton
correspondent says that only two deaths are
reported so far in Yankton county, and two
in Clay county. In Bonhommie county, 10
deaths are reported From South Dakota
| 104 deaths are reported. In B0nhommie
county, 200 head of frozen cattle were count
ed in one place and 140 in another. Dead
cattle and hogs may be seen along the road
| from Yankton to Springfield. Snow drifts
are said to be 80 feet deep. Some persons
missing are yet unaccounted for.
The Story from Nebraska.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 1S-Charles Gray.
living near Tekomah, died yesterday from
exposure in Thursdays storm. Miss Louise
Royce, a school teacher, eight miles from
|
of the storm. She started at O'Clock with
the children for a house about 20 rods dis
tant but lost her way. All lay down in the
snow aud Miss Royce wrapped up the chill
| dren as best she could. Early in the night
| one child died and later second one and
| just as morning broke the third child sue
| cumOed TO the cold. Miss Royce then man
| aged to reach the house less than 20 rods
away. Both of her feet were badly frozen
and fhaxx ahol batr m hxaa faA
| A school teacher and eight children whose
names are unknown are reported from Neigh
| TO have perlshed.
| Five brothers named Sickle are reported
| from the same place to have 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
/ storm.
| Fifteen persons perished in last Thurs
/ days storm in Custer county, Nebraska,
alone. The loss of stock is said to be enor-
nous.
Daring Miss Freeman.
The following story of the recent storm
was told yesterday by resident Of Ord. Ne
braska: "Miss Minnie Freeman, the young
| lady teacher at the Myra Valley district
school, had thirteen pupils under her charge,
whose ages ranged from to Is years. When
| the blizzard struck the school house, the
building was unroofed and the frightened
| little ones were exposed to the elements.
Miss Freeman, with rare presence of mind,
| gathered the pupils together, and securing
| coil Of strong twine she tied them altogether |
| by the arms, three abreast. The youngest |
child she took in her arms, after tying the |
end of the twine around her own body. Sc |
lecting her way carefully, she marched her |
little charges, with words OF encouragement, |
through the deep drifts and binding blizzard |
to farm house three-quarters of mile dis
tant, where all were taken In and cared Tor. |
Fatalities In Iowa.
DUBUQUE, Ia, Jan. 18-The fatalities Of |
the late blizzard on the prari lie districts of
Iowa are being gradually made public. By
| ron Cleveland Of Manchester. Delaware
county, has received information that his |
two sons. aged Is and II years, were frozen |
| to death during the storm, together with 80 |
| head of CATTLE The boys were driving the |
| cattle to water, about mile distant, when |
| the blizzard struck them, and their dead |
| bodies have just been found. The cattle |
| were frozen stiff. John 0lney was found in
| q snow drift near Marathon, frozen dead.
| Miss May Henning and boy named Julius, |
12 years of age, started on a sleigh ride to at
/ tend party in company with two young |
/ men. When the storm struck them they |
lost their way and the young men deserted
the lady and boy and reached alarm house
in safety. The deserted pair remained out
in the cold all night, and in the morning they
were found partially covered with snow.
| The young lady will lose both limbs and the
boys hands and feet were badly frozen. He
was saved from death by the girl, who
wrapped them in the only blanket left them.
The worst blOckaded road in Iowa rs the
ST. Louis, Des Moines d Northern. which
has not had a train over it since last We'd
nesday and little prospect OF having one for
several days yet The last train left this
city for Des Moines Wednesday, and the
train from Des Moines was overtaken by
the snow storm and remained stuck in drift
two miles from that city, the train hands be-
ing obliged to walk back. An attempt was
made to open the road Friday, but after
plowing fifteen miles, the second storm filled
the cuts once more, and the train has been
showed in since. The towns along the line
are cut off from communication with the
| outside world.
The Latest Reports:
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 18.-An evening
paper figures out list of 217 deaths by the
blizzard, and adds that the remains of many
people reported missing may not be found
till the snow melts in the spring.
The Press specials tonight give the names
of a number of additional victims A man
| named Sisland, living near BroOkings, OAK,
went to his well Thursday, to water his
stock He was caught in the storm e. an and per-
found only - feet from his house.
Eight Days Isolation.
CHAMBERLAIN, OAK, Jan. 1S.-It Is re-
ported that Annie Anderson of Ola, froze to
death going to school Thursday morning
Chamberlain had no train for eight days and
| the merchants were running out of supplies.
Near Hutchinson, Minn., the wife Of Mr..
Lupkel was so badly frozen that she died in
terrible agony
The Loss of Cattle.
HmLsBoRo, Tex, Jan. 1S.-The loss Of
live stock in Hill county in the recent bliz-
zard is not less than 1000 head.
Both Honest and Brave.
Washington Despatch to Boston Traveller.l
,, There are some queer things that turn up
in official papers occasionally. Not long ago
l | a special agent of the treasury was detailed