, 1888-01-19
The List of Victims Rapidly
Swelling.
The Northern Pacific Main Line
Open.
Reports Of Suffering In Kansas
Denied.
Reaches south.

Reaches South.
GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. l6--The
Dakota blizzard struck the Gulf of
Mexico ut this point Sunday morning,
causing II fall in temperature OF 3o de-
grees in two hours. The blizzard came
upon the city with remarkable sud
denness and without the slightest
warning fiom the weather bureau mt
Washington, thu bulletin ordering up
signals and predicting freezing wealth
.r arriving only thirty minutes before
the blizzard itself. From W degrees
at midn ght the mercury fell To " de-
srces at daylight and IA heavy slect be-
gan to fal, covering the entire city
with ice. BY evening telegraph and
telephone wires leading from the main
land into the city were carried down
by the heavy coating of ice tht
formed on tn, m and the city was en-
lite cut off with outside communca-
ton Tor twenty-four hours. The
weather here is the severest since Jan.
uary, 1855. The mercu y to-day indi-
Gated 90 degrees above zero. The
ground is covered with nearly an ch
Of snow. All street traffic was inter
rupted du ing the day, owing to peril
Gus slippery condition Of the thorough.
fares. Owing to telrgIaphic Interrupt
tior no reports regarding loss and suf.
fering To live stock have yet been re-
ceived here, but the general opinion is
as the Weather is 30 cold on the coast,
il must be dangerously severe on stock
in the interior, and westeGai part OF the
state.
ABILENE, Kan, Jan. I6.-SpeciaIs
to the Daily Gazette, from BruoSville,
Wallace, Scott City, Salina, Solomon,
Enterprise, Co1cordia, Manhattan, De-
tro,t, Chapman, Junction City, Hope,
Harrington, and other towns report
little r no suffering IRON lack of food
and fuel. Cattle are reported IN good
condition. A few cases of suffering
among poor people have bee II attended
to, and they have been relieved either
by neighbors or by the municipality in
which they live. Coal is reported a
little scarce in Salna. but no ether
place. Only three families in Abilene
are receiving help from the city.
ST. PAUL. Jan. 16.-Scattcri:g re.
ports % loss of life aud limb in tho
great storm of last week continue to
come in daily. In addition to the lis
o 40 dead published to-day the fol-
lowing reports have been received to-
night: J'yndall, Dakota, says six per:
sO.s are known to have peri he'd
near there. Mrs. Joseph Kebb, living
north of Yunkton, Dakota, started u
sho,t distance TO get her child h ,me
from the school house and got bewil-
dered and was frozea near her home.
The dead body of n man was found
ut Utica. A man named Bruce desert
| ed his team and wandered twenty
miles, and when found and brought to
Yankton was badly frozen. A. j. VIM
ters of LACROSSE, n sewing machine
man, who left Yankton on Thursday
morning 10y team, was fouUd dead be.
tween the villages of Tyndall and
Sprin, field.
a. Pierre, Dakota special says
"The first train for one week will
reach Pierre tonight. 1t is last Tues
days train and no through trains are
expected for Il week. Cattle on ranges
must have suffered terribly"
AT Miller, Dakota, to-day was re-
ported the iindin, OF the body OF Alex
Thompson. He left Huron on Tues
day morning. The body of Mr.. Holtz,
Il farmer, who lived northwest of Miller
has besn found. He sarted for his
sick wife and was Overtaken by the
storm. A lady who went to attend
his wife WAS also badly frozen. A.
Horton, who lives north of Miller, has
not been seen nee the storm.
At Huron, Dako'a, the wind has
been in the south al. day and is m
creasing to night, causing apprehen
sions of another blockade. The
Northern Pucilic has raised the block
AIDE west + Mandan, and now has the
entire main line clear.