Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1888-01-19

with the barn. He also passed within q
| few feet Of house. Mr.. Gosles's family
is scattered, his wife living in Chicago.
and his children married and living else
where. His youngest daughter lives in
st, Lawrence with Mr.. Dolan's family
and goes to school.
Shortly after the news Of Goslee's death
J. o. NcCulloch. who liy es l2 miles north
Of Miller, came to town for two collins for
the bodies Of
JERRY BOWMAN AND SON.
The death Of these two individuals is
not directly attributed to the blizzard.
Their home is On Wolf creek, s W 34-l14-
eS. Some four years ago Mr.. Bowman was
paralyzed ON one side while digging well
and never recovered full use Of his body.
About two weeks ago his son Samuel was
playing on the banks of Wolf creek where
they were fully thirty feet high. A crest
or projection of snow had formed on top
the bank in one place on which young
Bowman had ventured too far. 1t broke
off and he dropped to the hard ice below.
Although considerably hurt he recovered
sufficiently to attend school the day before
he died. He complained, however, OF a
pain in the side, and upon returning from
school he became worse. Friday morning
another son Of Bowmnn's named Daniel,
who had remained at the school house all
Thursday night with Other scholars, start
ed home to see how his father and sick
brother were getting along. On reaching
the house very poor and unpretentious
structure-he found his brother Samuel
lying in bed dead and his father gone.
The grief .stEckon lad rushed out and fol-
lowing the tracks Of his father soon found
the old gentleman lying prone and help
loss in the snow. He was still alive but
unable to speak. He could move one arm.
The lad threw his ovsrcoat over his father
and made as fast as possible for the house
of his neighbor Jones. With his neigh
pers assistance the boy took the old man
back to his house. where hs soon died.
! One half of the face and one arm of the
boy was frozen where he laid in bed. The
two bodies were buried on knoll on the
farm which had been previously selected
by Mr.. Bowman for that purpose. Mr..
Bowman was a widower and aged 65. A
son somewhere in the west, a married
daughter in Iowa, and the young sen
Daniel. aged IS, are the survivors of the
family. Jerry Bowman was nm odd genius
we'll known IN the counsy While ho and
his sons lived in very humble circum-
stances, yet he vas scrupulously honest
owing a dollar to no one. He had
suffered great many reyerses which had
tended to embitter his lie and made him
callous In nature-yet his old coat covered
kindly heart in fact and many there are
who will deeply regret to hear Of the sad
misfortune and untimely end Of him and
his son. The finding of the coroner's jury
was that the boys death resulted directly
from injuries sustained by falling on the
ice, and that the fathers death resulted
from paralytic stroke. The jury was
composed of ]. H. Hunter. J. C. Harvey
and has. Hoffman.
One of the saddest chapters We must
chronicle OF this death dealing storm is
that of
ALEXANDER THOMPSON,
Of Glendale township. On the morning
previous to the one Of the great blizzard,
he hitched up his fine team of black horses
in Miller to 20 TO his home. The weather
seemed so threatening that he concluded
to stay over and wait for change. On
Thursday morning he started with a sled
load of coal, we'll provided with lap robes,
for home. His team was in high spirits,
and he stated to friend that they would
take him the 16 miles home In an hour
and halt. He said he believed the team
would take him home through any storm,
as they had many time during the past
nve years taken him home when it was
so dark he had to trast simply to their in
stinct. young man Of splendid, robust
constitution. he started on his fatal trip
for home, Just ahead Of the storm. Next
day Peter Nash found a black horse with
harness on, standing shivering near his
barn in Ohio township, HOGS. Not having
room for the horse he took him over to
a neighbors barn-E. II. Yochs. Divin-
ing the horse had belonged TO some be-
lated traveller, Mr.. Nash took back on the
horses trail and soon came to the body Of
another horse, frozen dead. He also
found the footprints OF q man which he
followed quite way, but returned home,
witheat discovering anything further. On
Sunday Messrs. Nash and Yoch resumed
the search, found the tracks visible and
following them some FIVE or six miles came
onto the body Of Alex. Thompson, on NV
24-1i0-6s. He was lying on his back. his
bare tsnds raised in the air. Before find-
ing the body they noticed the steps were
becoming shorter and shorter Finally
they saw where the poor fellow had
fallen, but arose, and they soon found
where he had fallen again. With super
human efforts he again managed to get on
his feet, continuing short distance when
he came down for the third and last time.
This unfortunate man met with the ex-
perience of all other similar cases--that is,
! he was very nesr assistance but knew
nothing of it. Ills course during the
storm led him several rods through lane,
ON either side of which was q wire fence,
that on one side leading to Yoch's house,
and the other TO Nash's. He also passed
within few feet VI several hay stacks.
One OF his hands Was tonnd full OF Ice,
supposed TO have 11sn-nssafAe snow
I on his face so that he nffght :sapA Ths
Deceased Is brother of chas. rkompson.s
the County Commissioner. They located
in 1909 about five years ago, being the
first settlers in that township. A year or
[ 40 AGO the deceased married nna 81 Hand