The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1888-01-27

-. PArs. MIMI. Jan. 1A-The terrible
s,orv n 10 hixnard n noc yet halt told,
nat the llst q casualties has already
reached appalling proportions More
1hnn Two scors per>ons aro known % heye
oerished m The great storm Of Thursday
afternoon. and reports nom . doxen De-
kota poins say that many are still miss.
inc. Scarcely one q three will b. found
alive. because the mcrcurv was twenty
Gvs degrees below sero Friday, and run
down 10 forty below yesterday. Special
dispatches received up 20 eight O'Clock
yesterday show the following persons %
- dead;
Miss Cora Curtis. : young lady teaching
school near Dslsmere. OAK.
Henry Simpson, Harvey and N
Geurela, farmers living east o. Aitcne's
OAK.
Oslf Peterson. : stage driver OF En-
Henry Geire~. Charles 0sigsr sud
OeofFrey Mcconnell, OF Spencer, LAX
John 10y. : farmer. living north o.
Luverne. Mimi.
Walter Erickson. Peter Behs, Orlando
Behwick and julius Cairns. teamstcrs,
found ten miles northwest Of W~atertown,
Oak. Three others. who were with them,
have not been found. andare undoubtedly
dead.
John Daring. 4 farmer. found BY the
roadside near Adrian, Mimi
six other farmer OF this ucighborhood
arc missing, and ffty men arc looking
for them.
Emil Gilbertson OF Chicago. found near
his hack ct Hitchcock. OAK
George Allen, Jr-. and Joseph Ander.
s0u. near Mitchell, Oak.
James. Frank aud William Smith q
Nina. OAK.
Robert and Walter Driver. and Charles
Heath. ct Raymond, Dak.
william Overman. . brakeman; at Bel
grade. Mont.
Patrick Hanley. At M~arysville, Mont.
william Love md Judson westgate, ct
Aberdeen, Oak.
w. b Headlsv. It Parkston, OAK.
Mrs. Devine, Adam Corner and ,. W.
Gaslee, q Iroquois, Oak
Thomas and William Nelson, Joseph =.
Wilson. Emil Gilman. Robert Chambers
Henry Kampf and Thomas Giikinson.
csar Huron, OAK.
Horace Paine. near Bowdls. OAK.
Peter Terhume, q Roscoe. OAK.
Frank and William Nirson and Joseph
Wilson. at Virgil. Oak.
Some OF these died almost u their doors
Miss Cora Curtis WAS teachin- less than
half . mile from the house where she
boarded. but the wind was blowing fifty
miles an hour. She was found behind .
drift six feet deep. and her body would
not have been found had not n Of her
feet been uncovered . tribe. Robert
Chambers, Of Huron, saved his son BY
burving him in the snow. but he himself
persisted.
A sleishing party. consisting OF y
Young men and two young ladies, left
Lake Byron. OAK. At noon Thursday, but
have not been heard from
John 10y, Of Luverne, was watering his
cattle. less than one hundred yards from
his house, but was unable TO stand the
storm, and was found dead the next
day.
The schools Of Bismarck. jamestown,
Huron. Mitchell and WATERFOWL are closed
until the cold snap abates.
The report has just reached here from
Chcstsr. wabasha County, that six chill
dren were frozen 70 death yesterday aft
ernoon on their way from school,
81. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. b.-The Pioneer
Press has specials giving additional loss
Of life 20 the great blizzard. - follows:
GARY. Dak.-Cbas. St~aItsonborg. Of
Alta, Mont, started for : chin for his
dead son, and has not been seen since.
Two children Of Jos Hutchinson. living
west Of here. persisted while going home
from schooI.
Minol. Dak--Mr. Davis and his 6fteen-
year-old SON were found BY searching par.
ties two miles from town. frozen r. death.
Several Others are missing.
Sioux Falls, Dak.-Five victims Of the
blizzard have been found in this section,
viz. : lady teacher named Jacobson. and
: pupil named Ginde; @. Crunstrom. .
farmer and two others, names not known.
Yankfon. Dak--At Lesterville Jacob
Kruts died from the cold and his wife was
BADLY frozen: Frederick Millberger died
from exposure. Another man. unknown,
q known 70 have bean frozen Three
deaths ere reported from TundalI. Bon
ham County, and two girls near Wakenda,
Clay County.
Flandrsau, Dak.-It IL reported that .
lady school-teacher in the northern part
OF che county wal frozen 70 death
Miller, Dak.-The body Of J. w. Gas
1eilo. = wealthy farmer, lost In Thurs.
days blizzard, was found this morning
about two miles from his home.
Faulkton, Dak.-Emma Lamer, q young
school teacher southwest Of here, and Car
ris Auman. : pupil, were frozen 70 death
Wednesday night.
Doland, Dak.-Wm 9. 0arthwaite, 4
farmers son, got lost in the blizzard
Thursday going from his fathers house
60 the barn, and was found dead in thu
snow yesterday. At Raymond, While
ana Harry Driver wers frozen TO death.
Adrian, Minn.-Nrs. KnutxoD, Of Ritch
more, was found frossn 20 death within
forty feet Of her own door. Her husband
was absent, and she started to look fo'
him.
Canton, Dak.-The following DEATH
have been reported, but Il II though
there will b more, - reports come II
slowly: Two men Ct PrIngenhar, II.
two schools children q Inwood. Ia; tw'
uDn between Marion Junction and Bridge
water; one man near white Lake; ~
boys and ninety-hvs head Of cattle nsal
hardwood, Ia; four school childreI
near Lennox, Oak
Huron, Dak.-A young son Of Jame'
Newcombe, returning from school, VA
found frozen. Adam 0srnsr. Of Ircquois
mot heard from.
Hitchcock, Dak.-Lewis MsrrIman. ags'
sixty, and son. living fifteen miles north
.sast Of here, per.shsd IN Thursday'
ntorm- Mr.. Merriman was born nee