Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-30
THE BILLIARDS. BLAST.
Death and Destruction Upon
the Inhespitab'e Plains
of New York.
Fearful Adventures and Frozen
Corpses in the Track Of the Ter
fisIe Storm.

Fe2FfuI Adventures ana fr0ZeT
Corpses in the Track Of the Ter
fisIe Storm.
During last week q powerful blizzard
swept over the state of New York and
the appalling results of the storm are
slowly coming to public attention. This
10 also the region of summer storms, oy-
clones passing over and through the
state every few hours and leaving DESC
lation in their rear. The facts relative
to the great blizzard have been sup
pressed by the authorities, but our agent
in that region of desolatlon has unearth.
cd q few samples, which We give:
A railroad train was passing from
Strykeryille to Stormviile laden with
passengers. The blizzard struck it amid.
ships and the locomotive began to labor,
The atmosphere was 30 i~mpregnated
with powdered particles of congesled
moisture that the pilot was unable to see
land marks only y few feet distant and
soon the locomotive began to stray away
from its accustomed route and MIX itself
up with snow drifts which rolled moun-
tain high. Above the shrieking blast
was heard the voice OF the conductor
commanding the passengers to keep off
the platform and not put their heads out
the windows. Presently the water in the
locomotive boiler began to freezs,
though the fire in the furnace ragged with
fierce but inpotent heat. The passen-
gers removed their outer germents-over-
coats and seslskin saclues and mitteps
and ear muffs-and wrapped them
around the boiler. ALI was vain. The
water kept on ~congealing, until finally a
man in the audience who had lived in
Dakota went into the postal Car and got
all the mail bags and wrapped them
carefully about the locomotive boiler
and tied them on with strings. This
speedily thawed the Toe in the boiler and
the train reached port. A baby in one
OF the cars was about to die when it saw
the Dakota man with the mail bags and
1t then took fresh courage and knew it
was saved. Most OF the passengers on
this train had their toes and fingers
frozen off but all survived, though the
country Is strewn with the oorpses OF
frozen cattle.
Thursday morning dawned bright and
baimy at Tomhannock, in Rensselaer,
county, New York. 1t al Q seductive.
deceptive morning and the people gath
cred about the liberty pole In the public
square to select n OF their number to
be appointed judge of the fourth judicial
district of Dakota. The fetal blizzard of
that dire period came upon them like
the hand of God while basloting was in
progress and breathed in the faces Of the
assembled multitude. When the neigh.
bors shoveled away the debris Q few
days later the stiffsned corpses Of 160
constitution loving martyrs were released
from the frigid embrace of the drift, and
hIASGC0A VA bhCLh WCk0 Ahh4ShAhtS1y
taken to the nearest railroad station to
be shown to an Indian agent who was
expected to pass that way. A count OF
tho ballots clutched by frozen hands re-
vealed q tie vote.
An express train put ont of Pleasant
Plains, in Duchess county, against the
earnest official protest of she coroner,
who was much benumbed by sitting
upon the many stifs brought into the
county seat. This was the sixth and
most fearful day Of the blizzard. In
rounding Q curve the right hand axle OF
the forw ard car encountered q cold wave
and was go badly frozen that immediate
amputstion became necessary. This
disabled the train and the passengers
got out and seated themselves at the
base of q SNOW drift which lowered
sixty-four feet into the snow impregna-
ted atmosphere. They had just set fire
to the end OF q tie and were lowering
over the genial blaze and trying to thaw
out the thermometer, when an object
slid rapidly down the slope of the drift
and landed in q sitting posture with
much vehemence upon the fire, putting
it out, and only q block Of Joe remained
to mark it's site. One OF the passengers
lighted q match end they gazed upon
the object. 1t proved to be q plethoric,
red faced human form and under each
arm it carried q dead and frozen baby
Being questioned the human fosm
said: 81 am Msjor Kinney, Of Dako"-
There was q simultaneous shrek Of
despair and tho passengers fed in ali
directions ont into the bowling blizzard
ALI persisted. Major Kinney passed on
to the next railroad station, where he
found q correspondent Of the Chicago
Tribune, to whom he related his fearfu
experiences. The Tribune did mo-
print the story, because it happened st
far away from Dakota, and 1t now be.
comes the solemn duty of q Dakoti
newspaper to frst give it to the world
In q school house In New York city
teacher and his entire school OF seventeen
pupils we're caught by the blizzard o
last Friday. The teacher nailed th
windows and doors fast and then will
q string tied himself firmly to the seven
teen pupils, having the best looking gin
next TO him. In this condition they be