, 1888-01-17
MORE VICTIMS.
Additional Fatalities Reported
Of Thursdays Storm.
Thousands of People Suffering
for Food in Kansas.
Heavy Losses Of Cattle Report
ed From Texas.
The Storms Deadly Work.

1AS DIO . DSdOlO OIhs
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-The great storm
which swept over the entire country last
week has been followed by a freeze tho
like of which has not beer experienced
since the memorable winter of 1864. Ex-
IRENE suffering is reported from all direc-
tions, especially in Minnesota, Dakota,
Montana and Nebraska, where many lives
have been lost. In Kansas thousands are
suffering for want of food and fuel. The
storm, while less severe in the Southern
states, still found people there unpre-
pared for it, and much suffering has re-
| suited.
Dispatches from the Northwest report
l25 fatalities already.
At Aberdeen, Oak, Bessie Stansfuld, a
pretty I9-year-old teacher, three miles
distant. left the school during the storm
to go to a farmeI's house thirty yards dis
tant. Her dead body was found nearly a
mile from the school house.
Four children froze to death in the school
house at Mellette. The teacher left them
to get assistance and her body has not
been found.
Miss Steubiernsr, another teacher
twelve miles northeast of Aberdeen, was
out all night in the blizzard. When
found she was barely alive, and died
shortly afterwards.
William Morrill,, six miles west, went
out OF the house Thursday evening to go
a few rods to a barn. He became con-
fused and was found dead two miles
away.
H. S. Chaplin, collector for a threshing
machine firm, left Kerthville Thursday
morning with a livery mar to visit a far
mer's near by. They have not been
heard from and are probably dead.
o. T. Owens. and wife of Wentworth,
Oak, were lost on the prairie Friday
night, and when found Mrs. Owens wa
dead and her husband badly frozen.
MMNEAPoLIs, Jan. 16.-A Mandan,
OAK, special to the Journal says: The
mail driver was frozen between New Sa-
lem and Stanton. The three days block
adc on the Northern Pacific was raised
this morning. The Journals revised list
of blizzard fatalities shows 81 dead in
Dlkota, Is in Minnesota, 6 in Iowa, II
in Nebraska and l in Montana, the total
loss being 1856, besides So reported miss
ing.
A Milwaukee special to the Ereaing
Wisconsin from various portion ) OF Wis
consin indicate that last night was the
coolest in years. The thermometer at
w dSllDuIu O~USGINdlOTN. uIdulsUu- regis
tered 80 below zero.
Eau Claire reports As, Richmond Cen
ter SIS, Sparta 81, Chippewa Falls 81 de
gress below zero. The only fatality re-
ported in the state thus far was at Ellis
Junction Marlnette county, where a lum-
herman was frozen to death.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. l6.-Saturday and
Sunday nights we're the coolest ever ex-
pGrienced in this section, the theEmomc-
ter registering 49, below zero at one time.
Reports of cases Of freezing from points
in Kansas are appalling. The blizzard
that ragged through that section a few
weeks ago left the people in an exhausted
condition, and it is estimated that 5000
people in Clark county are IN a destitute
condition. The Presbyterian minister at
Hartford, kearnev county, writes to the
aid society implorlng assistance for the
people of that section, saying that if re-
lief does not come soon hundreds will die.
Specials from different points indicate
that casualties among stock have been
greater than ever known in Kansas.
Horses and cattle have persisted in their
stalls. Two trains of cattle coming in on
the Missouri Pacific railroad were caught
in the blizzard and every animal was frozen
to death.
In Indian Territory the entire range
is frozen over and cattle are drifting badly
and losses will be very great.
kilograms from points in Texas report
the mercury lower than ever before known
and suffering among poor people is very
severe, and that cattle on the ranges are
drifting south in vast numbers and cattle
men apprehend great losses.
ST. PAUL, Jan. I6-Scathing reports of
loss of life and limb in the great storm
last week continue to arrive hourly. In
addition to the list of 40 dead published
to-day, the following reports have been re-
ccived tonight. At Tyndal, Oak, it is
said that six persons are known to have
persisted near there. Mrs. Joseph Kef of
Yankton, Oak, started a short distance
to get a child home from a school house
and got bcwildered and froze near her
home. The dead body of a man was
found at Utica. A man named Bruce de-
serted his team and wandered some TWEEN
ty miles and when found and brought to
Yankton he was badly frozen. j. Robin
son of Yankton and A. j. Andrews of
LaerSs, and a sewing machine man, who
left Yankton on Thursday morning by
team, were found dead between the vii,
lage of Tyndall and Springfield.