The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-24
SOMEWHAT MIXED.

SOMEWHAT MIXED.
Conflicting Reports Concerning tho Dis
,ress in kansas-One Statement Says
Over Sixty Persons Have Pecished
Through Cold and Hunger, and the
Other Declares the Stores Are Greatly
Exasgerated-The Cold Wave in the
South.
WICHITA, Kan, Dec. 23-All the settled
districts OF Kansas have been aroused ly
the horrible details of death and suffering
IN the west to sense of the necessity for
immediate action in the direction OF relief
Additional information received character
ICES the bl zzard as one OF the worst in the
annals OF the State and in it's effects preb-
ably the most fatal, the number Of deaths
from combination of hunger and cold be-
ing placed at sixty. J. P. Hackney, Of Ash
land, Clark County, reached this city YES
terday, and gives the details OF the storms
work. He says:
when the blizzard struck us last Monday
the country people We're almost entirely out of
fuel, what little they had being buffalo chips.
Sunday was an autumnal day, and none were
prepared for the storm that followed.
Reports Of deaths have been coming
in ever since. OF my own knowledge
can vouch for the following: John
Henry and John Golfer left Ashland an hour
before the snow began to fall. Next day their
oooiOS "CiO lOuIu some IuilCS west Cd town
and their team, which had drifted before the
| storm, was found dead in harness
some twenty miles south. AS soon as the
| most violent part of the storm had passed we
organized rescuing parties. The party with
WI ca was in one sod shanty found an entire
family OF five, named -kannus, frozen stiff
The mother was dead in bed, while two chill
dren had died on their stools. Not a particle
OF fuel was visible. The bodies were taken to
Ashland and buried. B. G. Purdy, who had been
out looking at q claim, was found dead
within half mile of the limits of the town.
having evidently lost hise.way in the binding
snow, as he was eff the b ghway. These and
two otle bodies had been found up to the time
| OF my leaving yesterday. Ashland has been
turned into a hospital for the large number
! frozen, though not fatally. Anputa,ion had
| been necessltated in several instances'
Residents here are receiving adyices from
| II ends in the west. giving equally horrible
details. Tne condition of the people Of
Lane, Scott. Wichita and Greeley counties
| is terrible.
| e. Rogers, banker of Mead Center, who
came IN yesterday, says though he has heard
OF no actual death from starvation he
knows the people of his county to be desti-
tute OF fuel and that many OF them have
| been living for some weeks on corn meal
Mr. Riley and two children were frozen to
death near Dighton, Lane County, while six
deaths are reported from Greeley, nine from
| Wichita anG three from Scott County. The
facts are slow to come in, many Of these
counties being 100 and $50 miles from tele-
graph stations, but agents have been sent
on horseback from most of these d!str cts
to the nearest point of communication with
| the outside world
! KANSAS City, No., Dec. 23-Tha weather
| continues to moderate in this city and in
the State of Kansas Encouraging reports
are coming in from the West, which
go far to remove the impression of
extreme suffering in Kansas from
lack of food and fuel While there
have undoubtedly been isolated cases of
death from exposure and instances of indi-
dual suffering from scarcity of provisions,
there is no doubt that the condition of at
fl rs has been greatly exaggerated
| GARDEN City. Kan, Dec 23.-Represen-
tatlves of eleven counties of West and
Southwest Kansas report that in those
| counties there has been no more suffering
from the cold snap than usually expe-
rienced by people who are prov ded against
| such emergencies by clothing, food and
fuel. No de tbs have been reported from
cold, and people are well provided with
| food and fuel, the coal famine having come
! to an end about two weeks ago A local
| paper, which has correspondents in twelve
counties, says that in the cou mites of Scott,
! Wichita, Hamilton, Kearney, Kinney, Has
kell, Grant, Stanton, Morton, Stevens, Sew
ard, Gray and Garfield there has been no
severe suffering from cold
| ATCHIsoN, Kan, Dec 23.-There is no
lack of fuel or food anywhere in Northeast
ern Kansas nor along the northern tier of
counties
! ABILENE. Kan, Dec 23-specials from
n no limo Of fho 1rio
! points north of the road indicate no trouble
at all or no scarcity of food or fuel This
| may be said to include all of Northwestern
Kansas. a.:
TOPEKA, Kan. Dec. 23-The situation in
Western Kansas has greatly improved dur
| Ing the last twenty-four hours The
weather has moderated and the supply of
| coal is being increased. Twenty carloads
were shipped yesterday from the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Company's mines in
Colorado, which will be distributed at once
| at the towns most in need OF fuel
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. %. - Freezing
weather prevailed here all day and the city
is covered with a coat of Ice The freezing
line extends beyond the Rio Grande some
distance into Mexico
Dispatches to the signal officer here show
that very cold weather prevails throughout
tn great cattle districts of Texas Reports
OF suffering by. exposed cattle are being re-
ceived heavy sleet is falling:
CHATHAM, Miss. Dec pa Wild and
fierce Northwestern swept across the cape
yesterday afternoon and continues. with
snow-squalls and bitter SHOWS There is
much anxiety in regard to shipping.
LABOR IN THE SOUTH.
A Gloomy View of the Situation Given by
Prominent Knight of Labor.
WASHINGTON, Dec 23.-Thomas B. Barry,
of the Executive Board of Knights of Labor,
who has been on a tour through the South.
says he was nnfavorably impressed with
what he saw of tie social and political con-
ditiOn of labor at the South School ia