The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-14
VICTIMS OF THE BLIZZARD,

TYNDALE, Oak, February 9.-News travels
slowly i'll this part of Dakota, and it remains
Tor the Sun correspondent to report the roll of
victims OF the recent blizzard i'll Bon Homme
county. Tyndale is the county seat. 1t has o
population of 5000. The blizzard killed 81
Bohemians, or per cent of the Bohemian
population OF the county. Thirty-six families
are now in mourning, and in Tabor, Ziskov
Iiairiejek, and Wanari the poverty and despair
among the inhabitants are distressing
Through an interpreter q middle-aged farmer
named Korek told this story of the rush of the
blizzard:
"The day had been so mild that all those of
MS who had any work to do outside or anything
to sell in town seized the opportunity. All at
once, like flash of lightning, this terrible
tempest was upon us. l myself escaped it on
~ because L had my old fur coat with me, but
L had to wait, not many yards from home, cow
erng under fence, until the next morning,
and froze my ears and one finger"
Farmer Field, near Avon, had been to town
TO sell some corn. The storm began ON his re-
turn trip His horse stumbled and fell
and could not be made to raise again. Far
mer Field continued his way on foot and was
nearly home when exhaustion seized him and
he fell down and died. Toward evening his
wife went out to search for her husband leaving
the two i'll the house by warm stove. After
stumbling around for thousand yards she too
became benumbed and fell over something in
the road, where she died. The next day the
ISiSuDOFS IOunu neF frozen SUN in inc road,
lying on the body of her husband.
United States Signal Officers S. w. Glenn
says: while | was engaged on the roof the
air for about one minute was perfectly calm,
and voices and noises ON the street below APP
peared as though coming from great depths. In
the next minute the sky was completely over
spread by heavysblacl1 cloud which had few
minutes before hung along the western and
northwestern horizon. The wind veered to the
west with great violence The air was imme-
dately filled with snow as fine as a sifted flour.
The gale i'll three minutes attained speed of
forty miles per hour. The air became so thick
with snow that in five minutes after the wind
changed the outlines of objects fifteen feet
away were not discernible. These conditions
continued steadily all day and all night.
"a singular effect of the gale and snow,
combined with the cold, was to freeze the eyes
shut and then form an ice mask over the face.
The wind would drive the fino, hard snow into
the eyes, causing them to water. The snow
would mix with the water between the eyelids,
and the cold wind would at once bind the lids
together by an ice band. The repeated removal
OF this would inhame the the eyeballs so that
film would form, obSCuring the sight. After
this film formed the presence Of the ice was
relief to the inilamed. The eyes would soon
be frozen so close that nothing but steady arti-
fetal heat would relieve them. 1t is also a
strange fact that those rescued with the eyes
and entire lower part of the face covered with
the ice mask did not suffer from frosted face.
Amy desperate attempt to remove the mask re-
suited in removing the skin with it. Many cat
tie that were lost met their fate through sulfo-
cation more than through the severity Of the
storm. The ice formed so thick over their nos
tlilS and on Il cir mOutl as to SuffOcate hem -