St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-18
Thirty-One Pupils Frozen to
Death in a Single Dako-
ia County.
Additions Made to the MOrtu-
ary Record in the Vicinity
of Yankton.
How a Plueky Teacher Saved
Herself and Her Scholars
Storm Echoes.
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teen years, is just reported from twelve
miles south of Canton. He was after
hay and could not reach home. It. is
reported that thirty-One school children
are missing in Turner county. Three
children of Mr.. Heines. northwest of
Lennox, perished while going home
from school. The lady teacher argued
and pleaded with the scholars not to
leave the. school room, and finally
locked the doors, but they were too
many for her and had their way. One
scholar, aged seventeen, was among the
lost One man was nearly crazy and
! wanted to kill the school mistress, but
| the explanation of the scholars eXoner-
ated her. This makes seven children
lost IN the vicinity of Lennox. A team
| of horses and cow were frozen stiff
near the west end of the county. The
driver probably perished.
THE REPORT CONFIRMED.
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| ABERDEEN, Dak., Jan. 1.-THE re-
port of the loss of teacher and sixteen
| children in southeastern Edmund
county is confirmed. The bodies of the
teacher and of nine scholars are roper
ted found. A party is still in search for
other bodies. The names of the lost
can not be learned.
TWO MORE.
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HURON, Dak., Jan. 1.-Two addi-
tional deaths were reported this after
noon from the great storm. One is
Burdett ScOfeld, aged sixteen, living in
Bear Creek township. He had been to
! WOlSey for load of coal and was on
| his way home when the storm came up.
He took the horses from the sleigh and
| followed them some time and then let
them go. When found Scofield was five
miles from where the horses were left.
The team also perished. The other is
Katharine Druse, living nine miles
southwest of Wolsey. She with her
doing chores. They started for the
! house, lost their way and she
froze to death. The body was
found forty rods from the house.
| The prohibition convention called to
| meet here to-day to organize a third
party in South Dakota was slimly at
tended on account of the snow block
ade. 1t was decided to call another
convention here March 20. A large
| quantity of delayed mail was received
from the south this afternoon, the first
| opened to Pierre tonight.
A wONAN'S FATE.
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| WAHPETON, OAK, Jan. 17.-It was
hoped Richland county had escaped
without contributing a victim to the
storm. Word came to-day that Mrs.
John Frundt, near Hankinson, left
home Wednesday afternoon to aid her
| nearly blind husband home from Han
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| half mile away, and started back
home, but failed TO reach it. Her hus-
band remained at Hankinson. He now
| has eight mOtherlesS children to look
! after.
FOUR VICTIMS.
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| GARY, Oak, Jan. 17.-So far four
daathS are reported in this county, but
there will be many more. The North
western opened the road to this place
tonight, bringing a seven days mail.
1t will take two days hard work to get
from here to Watertown.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
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| BIG STONE CITY, Dak., Jan. 17.-An-
drew Magnussen, August L. Johnson,
and another Norwegian, Ole, were in
Big Stone City the 11th and started to
| go home, ten miles south, about D. m.
Everything went all right the first four
miles, but it then got dark and they
their teams. He had no room and
showed a neighbor's house near by who
had room, but they continued on
their road. A mile below there they
left their Sleighs and mounted the
horses, but soon lost the road and wan
dered about the prairie. August john
son and Ole got to the house of Andrew
| swanson, at Lake, ats o'clock this MORN
ing, both badly frozen, and yesterday a
party of men hunted for Andrew Mag
nuSsen and his mules. They found him
| lying on his back. The mules were not
far from him alive. They went west
after they left their sleighs in place of
going south. Deceased was a single
man over thirty years old. Several
others had narrow escapes.
TRAINS AGAIN RUNNING.
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| WATERFOWL, Dak., Jan. 17.-The
weather has considerably moderated.
The railroads are being opened; IA
special train on the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids q Northern arrived this after
noon. A train from the east on the
Chicago & Northwestern is expected to-
night; also train from the west on the
same road. In another day or two Wat
ertown will be in full communion with
the outside world.
DIED WHILE PRAYING.
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JAMESTOWN, Dak., Jan. 17.-Informa-
ton was received here to-day of the
probable freezing to death in the recent
blizzard of M. A. Ryan, farmer living
eight miles south of Cleveland. Ryan
went to Windsor on horseback last
Wednesday and started to return in the
evening in the face of the gathering
storm. He was seen for the last time
when few miles out by man named
Forbes, who says Ryan was only Ordi-
narily dressed for winter weather.
Ryan has now been absent six days.
All the neighbors and his wife, who is
frantic with grief, give him up
as lost. Ryan was about forty
years old, married, had two
children, and had held down claim
near Cleveland for two years. This is
the only case of probable storm fatality
yet reported in Stutsman county. Sew
eral parties were out over night, but by
remarkable presence of mind and will
power succeeded in weathering the
storm. Searching parties, organized at
Windsor, are securing the prairieS for
traces of the 'wanderer.
A telegram just received from Wind
sor says the body of Ryan was fOundfo-
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