Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1888-01-20
PERISHEDIN THE COLD.
List Of Victims of the Terrible
storm in the Northwest.

List or Victims OF tnG 0TTlDlS
Storm in the Northwest.
ST. PAUL. MINI, Jan l5-Tbe
loss of life by the great storm in the
Northwest on Thursday is quite
great, principally in Dakota. A sum-
mary of dispatches received at this
point yesterday gives the following
names of persons who persisted in
the storm: Miss Cora Curtis,
young lady teaching school near
Delaware, Dakota; James Harvey and
Samuel Sturla, farmers living east OF
Mitchell, Oak; Oior Peterson, stage
driver of Emmons county. Oak; Hen
ry Gerger, Charles Gerger and Geof-
rey Mcconnell, of Spencer, OAK;
John Say, farmer living north OF
Tuverne, Mlnn; Walter Erickson,
Peter Beke, Orlando Behwicks and
julius Cairn, all teamsters, found ten
miles northwest of Watertown, OAK
Three others who were with them
have not been found and are undoubt-
edly dead; John Daring. a farmer
found by the roadside, near Adrian,
Michigan; Emil GllbertsoH, of Chica'
go, found near bis shack at Hitchcock,
Oak; James Frank and William
Smith at Minota, Dakota; Robert and
Walter Driver and Charles Heath al
Raymond, Oak; William Overmau,
brakeman at Belgrade, Mon, Pat
rick Hanley at Marsville, Mon, Will
liam Love and Judson Westgate, at
A berdeen, OAK; w. Ii. Headley at
Parkston, OAK; Mrs. Devine, Adam
Garner and J. W Goslee, at Iroquois
Oak; Thomas and William Nelson,
Joseph f. Wilson, Emil Gilman, Ro'
bert Chambers, Henry Kampe, Thom-
as Gilkiasou, near Huron, Oak; Hor-
ace Paine, near Bowdie, OAK; Peter
Terhume, at Roscoe. Oak; Frank and
Wm Merson, Oak; Joseph Wilson,
at Virgil. Oak; VIM Driver and two
sons, Minot, OAK; Fred. Eller, cigar
maker, Omaha; Wexwell Beck, aged
years, Omaha; Geo. w Post, Pos
ter. Neb; John 10y, Luvere, MINI;
fitzgerald, Inwood, La; VIM. Love;
Aberdeen, OAK; w. b. Headly, Della
wars, Oak.
j. W. Gasslee, a wealthy farmer.
was found about two miles from his
hoase, near Miller, Oak. Emma La
mar. school teacher, southwest of
Faulkton, and Carrie Amman, pupil
were frozen TO death. Will G. Garth
waite, farmers son, got lost in the
blizzard going from his fathers house
to the barn, and was found dead in
the snow At Raymond Willie and
Harry Driver were frozen to death
Mrs P. Smith, was frozen to death
while returning from q neighbours al
Woodlawn, Nebraska. John Sparks
ex-member Of the Legislature, Was
found frozen stiff and dead within a
quarter Of mile from his home, nine
miles from Beatrice. Emil Grossman
Of Peru, farm laborer, was found
dead within twenty yards of his
home. A child named Bodine is re
ported missing from near Nebraska
City.
o E. Stearns, teaching school six
miles north of DeSmiJ, OAK, with
his three children were out in the
storm twenty-five hours. The boy
bad his feet frozen solid to the ankles
He walked mile in this condition,
and his feet then giving out be crawl
ed half mile to house. He will
lose both feet. The girl Was 80 chill
ed that she was unconscious five hours
alter being found.
CONTINUED LOW TEMPERATURE.
HELENA, MONT, Jan. I5,-This
morning at 5 O'Clock the thermometer
registered 40 below Zero. The high
est point reached during the day was
25o below. At Belgrade. east of
here, it was $50 below Friday night
with stock suffering. Specials TO the
Independent from Northern Montana
show some abatement in the cold
with westerly winds and prospects of
chinook. Railway traffic is still sus-
pended.
ALBERT LEA. MINI, Jan Is -
Last night was the cJldest of the sea.
sen, the thermometer going as low as
APO below. Ole A Egre. of Hart
land, this county, was frozen to death
last night.
NEBRASKA CITY, NEB, Jan Is -
Tue thermometer registered go be-
low zero last night. the coldesL in the
history OF the city. Two deaths
from freezing are reported, Emil
Grossman farm laborer, near Peru.
and a child of farmer in Hendricks |
precinct.
OMAHA, NEB Jan. l5.-The tenn
perature is rising slowly here. Last
uight the thermometer registered 25o
and in some parts of the city 800 be-
low zero. Through the night it rang
ed between 100 aud 12o. Reports
are still coming showing that there
are great many fatalities in the
State as result of the storm. The
bodies of an old womln named |
Mrs. Chapman aud two grandcbil
dren, who were lost last Thursday
near Stuart, Ia, were found yester-
day
Ia additional to the list of deaths |
already given the following are noted |
Near Mitchell, Oak u young man
named Munger, Mrs. Phillips and sou,
of Alpena. Jorauld county, OAK I'M
known man; near Aberdeen, OAK
O school teacher and two of her pu-
pills; near Falda, MIMI, the l2-year
old sou of John Walsh; near Tracey, |
MINI Tom Anderson. farmer, is
missing; near Albert Lea. MINI. Ole
A. Eyge, brother OF Prof. Esge, OF
Northiield College
Belgrade, Mont reports come Of
cowboys freezing in the Madison Val |
ley.