St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-01-21
THE WORST YET.
Returns From the Late Blizzard Show it to
Have Been the Worst for Years-Many
Persons Perish-The Storm General,

| Have Been the Worst for Years-Many
Persons Perish-The Storm General.
OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 14.-Yesterday morn
ing at three o'clock when the blizzard was
at it's height young cigarmaker, Fred FL
| Ter, was found frozen to death at the corner
OF Twentythird and Leavenworth streets
within a block of his boarding house A
little boy, Wexell Beck, started for home
from school about three o'clock THURSDAY
afternoon and has not been heard of since
Another little boy, George Allen, started
from school from his home on the military
road about mile west Of the city limits at
! about the same hour. He did not
| reach home and all efforts to find
| him since have proved fruisless Ora
| ham p. Browne, a wealthy Nine stock
raiser living in the suburbs, went to Coun-
/ Gil Bluffs with sleighing party Thursday
| accompanied by young lady. On the
| way back the team ran away throwing
! them both out. In the storm they lost
! each other and the young lady has not been
| heard of since. Snow ploWs are busy on
| all the roads and trains are moving to
! some extent, but all are very much behind
! time.
| John Sparks, farmer living twelve
miles west of Beatrice, was in that town
! Thursday afternoon and started home
| about the time the blizzard came up. The
| next morning his team was found near his
| place, but he was missing and nothing has
| yet been heard of him.
| Three children of John Denlinger. of
| Garrison, near David City, who attempted
| to go home from school during the storm
| lost their way and remained out all night
When they were found yesterday morning
one was frozen to death. The other two
| may recover
At Poston, George W. Post, late Internal
Revenue Collector of Nebraska, and an
other gentleman started out hunting before
the storm came up and have not been heard
of since.
IN DAKOTA.
HURON, D. T., Jan l4.-All the school
children caught in the storm have been ac-
counted for, none of them being hurt. AT
a coal shaft mile north of here, workmen
were snowbound until the morning without
food. No special suffering. Julius No
wettuy was at his slaughter house when
The storm broke. He tried to get home,
but was forced back and had to stay at the
slaughter house all night without fire or
food and with slightly frozen hands.
AT Virgil, southwest of here, an un-
known man frozen to death. The coroner
has been sent for. That is the only loss OF
life reported. 1t is expected that several
missing have perished.
At Mineol no trains were moving. 1t was
thir,y-eight degrees below zero yesterday
morning. An attempt will be made to-day
to open the cuts and move passengers.
There is fourteen inches of snow on level,
badly drlfted. James Smith and two sons.
aged fifteen and seventeen, started for
load of hay six miles from Mineol ON the
I1th and bavn bnau han r5
Search parties are out Several other per-
sons are missing, but are supposed to have
taken refuge in claim shanties
At Raymond damage to live stock will
be great, while reports of suffering and
death are constantly coming in. Two sons
of William Grider were frozen to death
within few feet of their barn. Charles
Heath is missing and J. II. Clapp has been
discovered badly frozen, he having been
out all night wandering upon the prairie.
The elevator of Archer & Howe has gone
down with 13, 900 bushels of grain. Other
minor casualties are reported.
Emil Gilberton, formerly of Chicago, was
frozen to death two and one-half miles west
of Hitchcock, while On his way to his
claim.
IN MINNESOTA.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 14-The blizzard
of Thursday was succeeded by perioi Of
intense cold. Railroad travel is demoral-
ized all over the State. The snow is packed
solid and much difficulty is experienced in
clearing the tracks. Several farmers liv-
ing twelve to fifteen miles north of Adrian
started home from there about three o'clock
Thursday and have not been heard from
John DOring Campera, farmer living a |
mile north of the same place. was at a !
nain nh q ono for of n 10 tod
home and was lost. Some fifty villagers |
started out to find him.
IN COLORADO.
DENVER, Col, Jan. IA cold wave |
struck this city at noon yesterday and it |
has been steadily growing colder. Snow
began falling al five o'clock yesterday |
afternoon. Alltrains on the Union Pacific |
are snow bound at Columbus. Neb., none |
having arrived here in the last thirty-six |
hours Trains on the Santa Fe are also |
blocked and from twenty-four to twenty |
six hours behind. The Burlington road is |
running trains on nearly schedule time, |
being delayed from two to three hours
NOTES.
Two children of Mr.. Fitzgerald, at In |
wood, Iowa, were caught in the blizzard |
while going home from school and |
perished
A heavy snow fall between Flagstaff and |
Williams, Ariz., on the Atlantic &C Pacific |
railroad has suspended business on this I
road, and no trains have left Albuquerque |
fol thirty y-eight hours.
8, = ais from the interior of Wisconsin
show tnat many cities were completely
shut off from railway communication with
the outside world. No trains have reached
Madison since Thursday afternoon. Twenty
below zero.
A heavy snow storm with strong wind
set in Thursday night at New York The
storm was severe throughout New York
and the New England States and trains
from all directions were from two to four
hours late. Temperature mild.
1t was 40 belowzero at Helena, Mont,
Thursday. The cold wave extended over
the entire Territory and no trains were
moving. Two men were frozen to death at
Maysyilie and serious results were feared
il the cold snap continued.
William H. Jewell, a local Republican
politician and extensive farmer, was found |
in the court house yard, at Hastings, Mich, I
Thursday, with his arms and legs frozen
solid, and died sooG afterward. He was /
Commander of Cox Post, G.. A. r.
Thursday morning the house of Theodore |
Preston, farmer near Pilot Mound, Man, |
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