The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-01-20
Both are having the

a.nszzazxszazrzszraz
use of her feet. Both are having the
best of care.
E. G. Wills. - Kent, j. P. Beebe
and Sam Tadlock deserve great credit
for their pluck in Drawing the bitter
cold and gong to the assistance of the
stage driver and his young lady COM
panion the night after the storm shich
was soon after news was received of the
disaster. Also Mr Rooney, living a
few miles north, who pileted the party.
They had great difiiculty in finding the
house in the night and couldn't get the
team to it owing to the drifted snow.
Dir. Miller performed the operation on
the hand of young Gingerly to day.
NEWS FROM R'Es.
From oar &psria a, corrys'os, fsBt::
The late storm was the worst the
writer ever s',w during residence of g
years IN the West. II strue!. this Ia. !
borhood with the suddenness of : cv-
clone and without sign OF warming
Albert Baclser was on his way none
when the storm struck him He wan
dcied around II til 4 p. III. whc, by
chance he run on to jos Donncr's cattle
barn in which he remained until morn
ing. Jos. Beyers, an account of whose
death you have by this time, leaves a
wife and six children. He was watering
his cattle on the creek, so rods from his
house when the storm came. Everybody
Is busy shoveling snow and getting feed
for stock JAS. Sinks stables are out Of
sight under the beautiful snow G. l..
?lummer has three acres of his four
year old grove, viii is about 12 or flf-
teen feet high, completely covered with
snow bank which will undoubtedly
crush il to the ground
THE RAILROAD
Was o course bio ked and blockaded
rs it never was before since its construct.
ion. At this writing Thursday p. NJ
it has been just eight days since regu-
lar train arrived OF departed from Kim
ball, and the indications are at present
that it with be half rs many days more
before train com through from
Mitchell. The track was in very bad
shape for the two days proceeding the
stnrm. The way freight returning from
Chamberlain got stall ed a mile west the
night before the storm and the train
crew cut loose from il and came into
Kimball on the enginc-No. SSl, Frank
Woodman, engineer The next morn
ing in sbnekiEsg, snow the engine blew out
| a cyliuder head and died. The same
day caught engine No. 1863 in cl,urge of
Engineer Mccormick here. 1t was
drawing 'tanger' in charge of Con-
tluctor Fcote. The engineer and fire
mar Of 1853 stuck by their engine through
| most of the storm and tried to keep it
| alive, bat We're dsiven ont of The cab
finally by the binding snow and had to
let the engine dc. Wednesday mo IL
| ing the railroad boys, tired of waiting
for help from the east, lied 3Sl down
into deep cut by the elevators, plnccd a
roof of boards over il and ,hawed i, uut
by building fires under it. The broken
cylinder head was replaced by one from
1913. The boiler as filed with warm
artesian water, steam gotten up aud the
engine was ready for business The
railroad boys say this is the first time to
4 their knowledge that an engine that had
| lain dead" for six days and completely
/ frozen up was fir d upin freezing wealth
II aad worked without being first taken
into round house. 1t was n pretty
/ slick piece of work, and the funnits,
| part Of the Shole business is to think
that the GRAPHIC man-who don't know
4 anymore about It locomotive than bt
does about-well most any tling-wa.
the first to suggest the plan to RoaG
Mas er Kindc!an and the ,ay to do it
4 Conductor Foote swore the idea was Il
feasible one and stuck to it until ih,
boys went att This afternoon Thurs
day-the engine and u big gang of sec
tion men are working on u big cut ont
mile east. in charge OF ,lr. kindelan
The section en- of White Lake ant
Pukwana arrived this morning. TIT
big mogIl engine and snow plow from
Sanborn has been two days trying t.
open the 'ig cuts between AleNau,iri,
and Mitchell. A snow plow left Mitch
ell Tuesday morning west and was tw,
days making ) nllcs That SNOW plov
Is now i'll the house at Mitchell waitin!
. until the little blow Which commence.
this morning lets up 1t is BLOWN.
!, quite hard east Of here and filling up IN
| cuts again. Impossible 10 tell " hen lh
: | road will he oper. There art. cuts be
tween Mitchell aud Chamberlain I 10u
: &c 500 feet lomg filed with hard snos
! TO the depth of = feet. II is estimate
t that there Is Que cut west of ki.nbu
which would take 325 mel day i
open. II is impossible 20 ,e''to.aa
! how much Territory the storm coyeret
i II is known that i, extended as fur c,ls
r. as Sanborn.
4 E.ts. q. Af. R2ece.ft1or.
{ The Kimball lodge of the above ord,
> gave a rceptionanfl iungnpt - tif,ee
= artwcnty gentleman friends in the
: pleasant rnn;ns Mcnhny evening. d
l.. bIiliiron acted is master of :elanul
. les and ti!led the position nGmi-.ii,