Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26
WORSE AND WORSE.

FuIy Two Hundred Persons Frozen to-
Death.
ST. PArL, Mimi, Jan. 1S-Reports Of loss
Of lie in last weeks storm continue to-
come in and the lists up TO last night
showed from 153 TO go victims and II would
seem probable that the final summary, II
such can ever be made, will show quite POO
names.
Sarah Dolan, school teacher OF Good
win, near Clear Lake, Oak, and Hugo
Schefr. a farmer OF Altamont, OAK, have
been found frozen 10 death. and so far four
deaths have been reported in that sections-
but II is feared there were many more
News reached jamestown, Oak, OF the
freezing to death OF Nj. A Ryan. i farmer
living near Windsor, where be had claim
HIS body was found by searching party
near a hay stack, about eight miles from
Windsor. He had been in the STACK ana
had come ont un buttoned his coat and laid
down on top of n snow drift near the stack
He hands were in position indicating mat
he met death while praying. HIS horse
was found alive. He had matches In MS
pockets when found, and friends wonder
why he did not set fire to the stack and
warm up. Mrs. Ryan Is nearly craZed-
At Alexandria, Mimi, the frozen body OF
Hanly a countryman, was found about ten
rods from his home. He had left AleXans
dria TO walk home. carrying forty pounds
of provisions, and had stopped several
times to rest and had at lust fallen back
upon the and died He served IN
company F, Seventh Minnesota
II Is reported that thirty-one school chill
dren are missing in Turner County
Three children of Mr. Heines, northwest
of Lennox, persisted while gong home from
school. The lady teacher pleaded with the
scholars not 10 leave the school room ana
finally locked the doors, but they were loo
many for her and had their own way. One
lost Mr.. Heines wanted to kill the school
mistress, but the explanation OF the balance
CT the scholars eXonerated her. This
makes seven children lost IN the vicinity
OF LennoX.
A team Of horses, with a cow tied to the
rear Of the wagon, all frozen sun were
found in the western part OF the county,
The driver probably persisted
The death of Edwin Kylling, 4 farm boy
of seventeen years, has just been reported
from Canton, Oak. He went after hay and
was caught by the blizzard.
SIOUX FALLS REPORT.
Sioux FALLS, Oak, Jan. 1S.-The eighth
victim in the county of the great blizzard
was discovered yesterday. 1t was Eric
Ericsson, a farmer, six miles from the city
He was but short distance from his
house when the storm struck, but was soon
blinded by the snow and lost his way. de-
embarrassed the horses and unhitched the
front portion OF The DOD-Slcd, Dub was
probably then too much exhausted to do
any thing further. The horses were found
the next day. but his body can not be found
Henry V. Bliss, farmer near Montrose,
next county, went 10 the barn 10 do chores
His wife put a light in the window TO guide
him back, but he never came.
james Kennedy, who passed the night in
q haystack, is but slightly frozen. His wife
ana son, who went out TO find him, We're
both frozen and the boys body has not
been recovered.
e. Grandstrom's body was found last
night. He was driving home from this
city and being overtaken by the storm IN
hitched the horses and then abandoned
them He finally fell in the snow and
perished within twenty-five yards OF his.
house.
A German farmer, name unknown, in
Lincoln County, persisted while attending
TO his cattle.
Another farmer at Brandon and an IN
known tramp were lost i'll the storm.
1t is estimated that over 5000 head Of
cattle in this county alone persisted in the
storm. Several railroad cuts were filled
with their frozen carcasses.
In Northern Hurd County farmer who,
started for doctor WAS found thirty-six
hours after with his horse standing beside
his dead body. A man six miles west of
Willard left his house telling his wife that
| if The storm increased he would stay at the
| barn He has not yet been found.
TIE report of the death of Il school tencher
and sixteen children near Lake township
! in East Edmund County, at first discredit-
ed is probably true. Parties who came from
Warner, Oak, state that the teacher and
siz children have been found. II. 3. Chaplin,
of Minneapolis supposed TO have been lost
| has arrived in A berdeen.
Mrs. Anthony Haby, of twenty five miles
north. Is reported lost. Word came from
Wolsley, near Huron, OF two more deaths.
A boy of sixteen, Burdett Scholield- left
WolsIey just before the storm set in with a
! load Of coal, going TO his home, five miles
south of town. He unfastened the team
| from the sled and went some distance.
when the horses got INTO a snow1rift-
There he left them. His body was found
five miles from the sleigh. The Druse'
! family 1--we on farm nine miles west Of
| Wolsley. Katherine Druse with a sister,
were at the barn, about sixty rods from
! the house, when the storm came up. She
| started for the house but lost her way.
| The next morning her body was found
forty rods from the house. Those reported
! most severely frozen are improving and
may recover.
A NEBRASKA LIST.
NEIGH, Neb., Jan. 1S.-A school teacher
and eight children, names unknown, were
! lost in the storm in the northern part OF
| Holt County.
! Five brothers named Sickle were frozen
| to death six miles from here and an old
/ man named Close also persisted
A boy named Miller was frozen to death
/ and his mother Will lose both legs and an
! arm They were returning from the fune-
/ raj OF a relative.
Miss Louie Royce, teaching school near
/ Foster, NeD., attempted to go from the
! school house to farm house twenty rods
! away, with three children but lost her way
] l., The storm and all laid down in the snow.
] The three children died during the night,
but Miss Royce reached the house. in the
morning with both feet frozen, and they
will have TO be amputated.
Henry Keichhafer and his son also lost
! their lives near the same place while try