Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-01-15
THE GREAT STORM
MUcH sUFRERIEa AND MANY LIVES
LOST.
school-Children Lost in the enow-Drifts
Fifteen Feet Kigh-Cattls
Frozen 10 Death.
Try tnlorrnnh 10 the Disnaich.l

10y NticVIhIn 10 Nuo DifIhtNu-l
CHICAGO, January 1.-THE storm ut
Galena yesterday blockaded the high
ways, the drifts in some places being fiji
teen feet deep. No trains on the Hi
nois Central or Chicago and Northwest
ern roads reached there yesterday. The
blockade on the latter road between Ga
lena and Madison will not be raised for
several days. Stock abont Moweaqua
suffered intensely from the sudden
chdnge in the temperature, and O num-
her OF losses by freezing are reported by
farmers.
Aberdeen, OAK, January N.-The
thermometer marked - below zero last
evening, and the wind is still blowing
from the northwest. The reports from
every station on the Milwaukee, Mani
toba and Northwestern roads in Dakota
last night show no attempt TO move
trains or even send snow-plows out
hfs been made. Judson WesGate and
William S. Love left here Thursday
ut 4 o'clock for Nina, fourteen miles
away. Up 10 last night nothing had
been heard from them. At Hitchcock
Emil Gilbertson was frozen to death two
miles west of there. At Virgil, Joe Will
son and Hank and Willie Nirison left in
the blizzard. Both the Nirisons were
found dead but there was no trace OF
Wilson At Worthwhile one man was
lost. Several narrow escapes Of persons
trying to get home Thursday night are
heard.
MIENEAPOLIs, January 1.-The
storms back is broken, aud the railroads
have gone patiently 10 work to burrow
their way through the hard packed drifts.
The snow is rs hard and heavy as sana
and battles the snow-plOws. The only
train in at the Union depot yesterday
was the Wisconsin Centrals. Two east
bound Northern Pacific trains came in
this morning. eighty and fifty hours late.
One OF them had been snOwed-in fifty
miles westof here for seventy-two hours.
The Northern Pacific has had an excel
lent opportunity TO test the rotary snow
plows and with entire success. Over two
hundred miles of track III Dakota, with
the snow averaging fifteen feet deep,
have been cleared by one plow IN sixteen
hours. THIS IS an unparalleled achieve
ment.
FATALITIES AMONG HUMAN BEINGS AND
STOCK.
WASHINGTON, January 14.-Dispatches
from the Northwest record a number of
deaths 10y freezing in the recent blizzard
4 school-teacher named Miss Curtis WAS
frozen to death on her way home from
school. st Drlamac, Oak, near Sioux
Falls, a man was found dead standing
beside his barn, and another lay all
night within half mile Of town IN a
snow-bank between his horses, thus
saving his lie. Three children at
Garrison, Neb., got lost going home
from school and remained out all night
One was dead when found the other two
may recover. ". 3. Headloy was frozen
to death near Barkston, Oak Two men
were frozen TO death near Marysyille,
Mont. A man named Allen and his son
were caught near Mitchell, OAK, and
the son was frozen to death /; the fatherwill
lose both arms. Another man IS lost IN
the same neighborhoOd, and freight
train is blockaded nine miles from
Mitchell and the crew have had nothing
to eat since Wednesday. In the neigh /
borhood Of Aberdeen, Oak, ten men
were caught by the storm at different
points. -Four have been found dead,
and tie others are probably dead, but
bave not been found. The loss OF live
stock is immense some actually freezing
TO death in stalls in stables. Two belated
stock trains from Nebraska arrived at
81. Joseph, Mo-, last night with every
head of cattle deed.
The list of persons frozen to death or
missing in the storm published in ST.
Paul foots mp thirty-six, but later dis
patches from towns IN Dakota alone show /
be greater and additionssre /
being made. The number
of children lost is remarkable, due to the .
fact that many of them started .
from school after the storm began. /
Many pathetic incidents are related Of /
the suflerings Of children and the heroic /
efforts OF parents to save them. In one /.
instance a father saved his son by cover /
inc him up in snowdrift, but lost his /
own life. The wind Las sbated, but tic .
cold has not materially diminished. /
Another blizzard is reported coming /
from Manitoba.