The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1888-01-20
NO LET UP.
The Severity of the Weather,
Continues.
Further Particulars of Thurs.
days Storm.
[From Sundays Republican,

thou3h lhefe mas been no repetition OF
the fearful experience of THURSDAY.
The mercury keeps down to low water
mark and the wind continues to blow
from the northwest with more or less
violence.
Reports of disaster come in slowly.
and while hoping for the best there is
good reason to fear more or less loss of
life.
Joe. Morrow and w. Z. Lott loaded
sleigh with provisions Yesterday tore
noon and Went to the relief of the AL
len family on the Firesteel The latest
reports are that Mr.. Allen and his son
reached the hay stack, some 30 rods
from the house, and were forced to
stay there all night, with the sad re-
suits referred to yesterday.
County Commissioner Platner over
exerted himself in trying to get home
Thursday afternoon, and brought on a
severe hemorhage Of the lungs. He was
some better yesterday.
Mrs. Prof. Wakefield had a decidedly
uncomfortable experience. She was at
the house on west Second street in the
forenoon, where they intend TO go to
housekeeping, and expected to come
down town for dinner. The professor
was engaged at the university, and she
was busy putting the furniture in
place and arranging the interior of the
house, when the storm came up. There
was no stoYe up. the fuel had not been
delivered, and there was nothing to
cat in the house. She dared not ven
ture to neighbours, and was obliged to
remain in the cold house all that af-
ternoon and the terrible night that fol-
lowed. Fortunately there was plenty
of bedding, and she kept from freezing.
but the experience is one she does not
care to repeat. Her husband was i'm
prisoned at the university, but think
ing She was with friends down town
did not worry.
All the university students and
faculty spent the night in the building.
Several OF the students rooming at Mr..
Swin's tried to get to the house by
means of Il rope, one end of which was
fastened to the university, but it was
too short and they gave it up.
DR.. Windle was one of those who
4 tried to get home Thursday afternoon,
1 but after getting into big drift be-
yond the Belts place, he backed out
3 and came down town.
Il All sorts of rumors were on the street
yesterday. One was that son of
Luke Lowell and young Smith, brother
sEof Mrs. Beattie and Mrs. Wiltse of this
city, living on the Jim, had not been
4 heard from. Another was that George
& Hooker living southwest, had found a
/ blanketed team onthe prairie with no
driver, which he thinks belonged to a
man who drove by his place about ten
minutes before the storm came up,
John Anderson, referred to yesterday,
has been heard from. He turned his
team loose, and with a man named
Jackson, managed to find his way to
George Meyers place, where they
were safely sheltered. The horses
were found the next morning where
they had been left.
ALT. Carlson is said to have fifteen
head of cattle unaccounted for, and
James Campbell, up the valley, had
125 killed. if rllmor is to believed.
Saul, the milkman, got in yesterday
forenoon, and reports everything all
right in his neighborhood. The teacher
and pupils at the school house in that
neighborhood spent the night in the
1 building without much discomfort.
h McGovern says that Thunnissen is
h entitled to the name of the "good sa-
II maritan."
& The report comes from Montrose,
Il McCook county, that four children got
! lost on their way from school, and
/ that only three of them were found.
Several hogs froze to death at the
stock yards, and bunch of cattle was
found standing stiff of town.
The Blizzard In SanbOrn County.
Woonsocket Times, ,13: j. Bailou and
Harry Maxwell We're out III the biz
!. zard all day Thursday and Thursday
y night, and by supernuman grit and
frontier endurance came in this morn
B ing. They are fearful OF having lost
Mn three horses. These men saved the1,
Sslives by digging into SNOW bank, and
aesq uimaux like living in a SNOW house
ggsssE ggssE j u. anu Malcolm AtcDouga4 were out
Isstn the storm all u1ghU but scotch nerve
@sSaVed them and THEY canle i'll this
4mornlng with life enough to stand d
H. deal yet.
III Thomas Bishop, staying with Mr.
~ Orr, went out for may yesterday, and al
$ss this hour II ~, has not been heard
Nj from.
NJ VIII ShultZ and his neighbor Scheilt
a peltz were out in the storm all night
~ They housed in an old Shed and Is
capped with Slight frost bites.
Calamity Alerted.
y Aberdeen Republican,: The children
of r. Christian and Samuel Fulkel
spent the night of the 18th at the War
ner township school house in thu
charge OF the teacher. About o'clocl
in the morning the fire being nearl,