Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-17
over one HUNDRED.
The List of Victims OF the Recent
Blizzard Reaches Ore Hundred
and is Still incomplete.
Heart -Rend ding Tales OF Women and
Little Ones Dying From CoId-The
Wanderers Clicked by Fine Sand.
st Louisian OF Il fiji asDce Dies From Ex
posnrs at Texarkana-rhree Other
Deaths From Free zing In Texas.
Tales Of the Blizzard,

T&fes OF the Blizzard.
ST.. PAUL, MINI, Jan. lS.-The terrible
storm which has swept over the north
west blockading the railroads in Ave
states is now over snd the victims of its
fury are being counted. When the record
is complete it will jshow 100 lives sac
Wednesday morning Dakota never had
lovelier weather. The wind was from
the south, warm and balmy. Farmers
took advantage Of the beautiful weather
to go to town. About noon q cloud
swept over the country. The sun WAS
obscured, snow was falling fast and a
gale was sweeping from the northwest
with terrible fury. The mercury fell
rapidly and By O'Clock it was 15' below
zero, and the next morning it registered
30' below. The wind increased in fury,
the snow fell thicker on the prairie.
Forty feet dist MT could not be seen.
A mans voice could not be heard six feet
distant. The sir was full Of Snow as fine
IS Fl our, and the roaring of the wind and
darkness made the scene the most dis
NAL, dreary endforsaken that
MAN EVER LOOKED UPON.
Every railroad in Dakola, Minnesota and
many in Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin
railroads were blocked. The telegraph
wires everywhere were down. Pltiful
stories and heroic deeds are hourly de-
veloping.
Mary Cornell, SCHOOL teacher near
Cavour started home with two of 7
pupils, e boy and girl. The boy left them
and persisted. Miss Cornell put her
dress folds about the little girl snd made
her walk all night, sheltering her charge
with her body. and they were found the
next morning alive, but horribly frozen.
Another teacher, Miss Jacobson,
near st. Off started home with
q little girl, and both persisted.
When found Miss jacobson was
creuched in little hollow in the ground
Nh her arms about the little girl and
her d'ess-skirt was wrapped about
her. Her own bonnet was OF her head
and her hand clutched her dress st her
throat, out there was
SMILE On HER FACE.
Two children, boy and girl, OF Joseph
Hutchison, near Gsy, were lost going
home from school. They were lying
close Together and the boy he'd HIS sis
ter's hands between his own.
) IL D Cnopiu Vi hlluueapOlls iSiS NOTlu-
vile, near Aberdeen, Thursday morning
with liverymsn. They have not been
heard from.
1T. Owens snd wife OF Wentworth, ID.
T., were lost on the prairie Friday night.
They were out sixteen and half hours
and when found Mrs. Ovens was dead
and ne was badly frozen. They were trav-
cling in vehicle. He will survive.
At Pierre it is reported a woman and
child We're frozen TO death near Canning
Dat this is not yet confirmed. No trains
have moved st Pierre since Thursday.
These are but few Of the many terri
bic stories which have come, msjority
Of which have been briefly mentioned be-
fore in these dispatches. A number of
the dead had the appearance of having
died from eufocstion. Some had torn
their clothing away from their throats
and others had thrown away their head
covering and were clutching at their
lhroats, as though struggling for breath.
During genuine blizzard the air is
filled with fine ice dust driven with ter
rife force, which chokes the unfortunate
victim in short time il ne attempts 10
stand against Il.