Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-19
A TERRIBLE LIST.
Deaths by the Fearful Blizzard
Continue to be Representatives.
Forty Dead.
A Father Saves His Boy But Perishes
Himself-An Old Lady and Two
of Her
Grandchildren Die in Nebraska-The
Huron Casualties -Phenomenal Cold
in the Northwest.

shown TO have been very great, by Ear the
largest number of Casualties being re-
ported from Dakota points. The Erenin9
Dispatch has the following summary OF
dead and missing, thirty-six in all. but
the list will probably be largely augmented
when the returns are al IN:
At Adrian, Mnn.-John Caring.
Hitchcock, d. T.-Eml Gilbertson.
Mitchell, d. T-George Allen, Jr., Joseph
Anderson Walter Munger.
Minol u. flames Smith and two sons.
Raymond, D. T-Wllllam Drivers two
sons, Charles Heath.
Omaha, Neb.-Fred Eller, cigarmaker; a
young lady, name not reported; Wexwell
Beck. aged eight years.
Poster, Neb.-George W. Post.
David City, Neb-A child of John Dem
hnger.
Sioux City Ia.-Unknown man.
Belgrade, n. T.-Wllliam Ovcrman.
Marysville M. T-Patrick Hanley.
Huron, D. T-Thomas E. Gilkeson, Row
.ind Chambers.
Luverne, Minn.-John 10y.
Inwood, Ia.-Mr. Fitzgerald's two chill
dren.
Aberdeen, D. T-William Love, Judson
Westgate.
Bowdle, d. T.-Mr. Paine.
Roscoe, D. T.-Peter Terhune.
Vergil, d. FRANK Nierson, William
Nierson, Joseph Wilson.
Iroquois, d. T.-Mrs. Devine, Adam Ger
ner, J. W. GOslee.
Barkston, d. T.-W. B. Headley.
Delamere, D. T.-Miss Cora Curtis.
A Cleremont, D. T., special says: Re-
ports have been received here of four per-
sons lost in the blizzard, but without par
liculars, except in the case OF Miss Slime
burner, Of Amherst, who was out all night
and can hardly recover.
Later specials report tho following deaths
by freezing in addition to the list already
sent out: Near Mitchell, OAK, young
man named Munger; Mrs. Phillips and son,
Of Alpena, Jerauld County, Dakota; an un
known man near Aberdeen, Oak; at
Wyndemere, near Wahpeton, OAK, a
school teacher and two of her pupils; near
Fulda, Mimi, John Walsh; near Tracy,
Mimi, John Anderson, a farmer, is miss.
ing; near Albert Lea MIMI, Ole A. Egge,
a brother OF Prof. Egge, of Northheld
College.
Belgrade. Mont, reports rumors Of two
boys frerzlng in the Madison valley.
Saturday night and yesterday We're ex-
ceedingly cold all over tho Northwest. At
Brainerd it was so below at five a. M, ut
Bird Island 80 below, at Fairbault II below.
at Duluth 81 below, at Clearwater 43 BE-
low. The opening Of all blocEaded +, ads
all over the Northwest began in earnest
yesterday and good progress was made de-
spite the cold. Trains will be running as
usual in day or two.
THE HURON REPORT.
n Iun loo
Gllkenson, Emil Gilman, Robert Chambers
and an unknown mau, were reported dead
up to last n,ght. Thomas and William Mel
son were found frozen 10 death this morn.
ing. They live nine miles west of town.
Joseph +. Wilson, living in the same neigh
borhood, is also missing. Chambers saved
his son by burying him in the snow, but
himself persisted. When found they were
half mile from the house, and u large
St Bernard dog was with them. The boy
says the dog barkeI all night. and his
father called for help, that his father did
not die till an hour before the rescuing
party reached them. The boy is only
slightly frozen. A party OF four that
started for Lake Byron an hour before the
storm, has not been heard from. Among
other casualties, young son Of James
Newcomb returning from school was found
frozen. Adam Corner, of Iroquois, while
returning from town to his home, six mics
from town, was found frozen stiff.
FOUR MORE DEATHS.
STUART, Neb, Jan. 16-Mrs. Chapman,
aged fifty-one, and her two grandchildren,
a little girl Of eleven months and boy Of
five years, children Of Henry Faust, OF this
place, were found frozen to death twelve
miles north of town yesterday. Thursday
morn ng they started for this place with a
team Of ponies and sled. The ponies were
still standing hitched to the sled. A farmer
named Mason, living twelve miles south
west Of here, was also found frozen 10
death. Others are still missing.