The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-01-17
An Atmosphere Fit for the
ESquimaux.
COOLEST EVER EXPERIENCED.
Mercury Down to 80 Below Zero
Many Deaths From Freezing
General News Notes.
The Cold.

ing are reported, Emml Grossman,
farm iaborer, and child of farmer
named Bodine, are missing since Fri
day, and are supposed to have persisted.
HELENA, Mt. ,,J snaury l5.-This IN I'm
ing, at O'Clock, the therR ometer
registered As degrees below At Bel
grade east of here it was SO below on
Friday night, with stock suffering.
Dispatches from northern Montana
show an abatement in the cold, with
westerly winds, and the prospect of a
chinook.
ALBERT LEA, Mimi, January Is
Last night was the coolest of the sea-
son, the thermometer going es low as
a below. Ole A. Egge, of Hartland,
was frozen to death.
ST. LOUIS, January 15.-Dispatches
from dozen places in northern Texas
sag the blizzard reached that part of
the State yesterday afternoon, and that
the mercury fell from 40 to so degrees,
reaching almost zero at some points. a
high wind prevailed, and sleet and
snow fell in an unprecedented man
ner. Advices from the Pan Handle
say the mercury fell to 2 degrees above
zero, andth cattle were drifting before
the storm and suffering badly.
OMAHA January 15.-Last night the
thermometer registered in some places
in the city 80 degrees below zero. To-
night it ranges between 19 and y de-
grees. Reports show that there were
many fatalities throughout the State
as result of the storms The bodies
of an old lady named Mrs. Chapman
and two grandchildren, who were lost
on Thursday near Stuart, Neb., were
found yesterday.
ST. PAUL, January 15.-The following
deaths by freezing, in addition 10 the
list sent last night, are reported: Near
Mitchell, OAK, young man named
Munger; Mrs. Phillips and son,'of AL
pena, Serrold County, OAK; an IN
known man, near Aberdeen, Oak; at
Kindemere, q school teacher and two
pupils Fulda Mimi, 12-year old son
r of John Walsh; Tracey, Mimi, Tom
Anderson, farmer, is missing; Bel
grade, Mont, reports the deaths of
several cowboys in Madison Valley.
Last night and to-day have been ex-
ceedingIy cold all over the northwest.
at Brainerd, il was So degrees below at
O'Clock this morning; at Bird Island,
SO below this mornlng; at Faribault, AZ
below last night; at Duluth, 81 below
to day; at Clear Water, 60 below this
morning.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, January 49,
Saturday and Sunday nights were the
coolest ever experienced in this section,
the thermometer registered 10 degree
below zero at one time. Reports OF
eases of freezing from points in Kansas
are appalling. The blizzard that ragged
through the section q few weeks ago,
left people in an exhausted condition.
1t is estimated that 5000 people in
Clark County are in destitute con-
dition. The Presbyterian minister at
Hartford, Kearny County, writes to
the Aid Society lmploring assistance
for the people of that section, say
ing: If relief does not come
soon hundreds will die. Specials from
different points indicate that the
casualties among stock have been
greater than ever in Kansas. Horses
and cattle have persisted in their stalls.
Two trains OF cattle coming in on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad were scaught
in the blizzard and every animal was
frozen to death. In Indian Territory
the entire range is frozen ever and
cattle are drifting badly and the losses
will be very great. kilograms from
points IN Texas report the mercury as
lower than ever before known. The
suffering among poor people is very
severe. Cattle on the ranges are Drift
ing south in vast num )ers and cattle
men apprehend great losses.
CHICAGO, Jan uary 16. = The great
storm which swept over the entire
country, last week, has been followed
by a freeze, the like of which has not
been experienced since the memorable
winter of 1864. Extreme suffering is re-
ported from all directions especially
in Minnesota. Dakota. Montana and
Nebraska, where many lives have been
lost. In Kansas thousands are suffer
for want of food and fuel The storm,
while less severe in the southern States,
still found people there unprepared for
it, and much suffering has resulted.
Dispatches from the northwest repor,
125 fatalities already. At Aberdeen,
Dakota, Bessie Stanstield, pretty l9-
yesr-oid teacher, three miles distant,
left school during the storm to go to a
farmers house, thirty yards distant.
Her dead body was found nearly mile
from the schooI-house. Four children
were frozen to death in a school house
at Mellette. The teacher left them to
get assistance and her body has not yet
been found Miss Steu bierCer, another
I. teacher, twelve miles northwest of iAber-
deem, was out all Iightin the blizzard.
When found she was barely alive and.
died shortly afterwards. William Nor
rell, six miles west, went out of the
house on Thursday evening to 60 few
rods to the barn. He became confused
and. was found dead two miles
away, Il; s. ehspis,; collector
left Kerthville on Thursday morning
with. livery man to .Yisit, a farmer near.
: by. They have mot been heard from
and are probably dead. Q. T. Owens
and wife, of Wentworth, Dakota, were.
lost on the prairie Friday night; when
teApa. Mrs; Owens was de- dead "a and he
MfsNEAfoIIs, January 1s,9-A Man
dan, Dakota, special to the Jour1ial says
the mail driver was frozen between
New Salem and Stanton. The three
days, blockade on the Northern, Pacific
was raised this morning. 9 isS ,i'ie ael
The Journals revised list of blizzard
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