The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-01-19
THE SHARPEST STORM FOR
YEARS..
Aany Lives Lost and much Sufering-
Nearly 1,oo Hundred Persons Frozen
-Extends eren to Texas.

Muny L1ues Lost and much SuferinQ-I
Nearly 1,oo Hundred Persons Frozen
-E1tends eren to Texas.
The storm which struck this part Of |
the country between five and six
o'clork on Thursday evening last, the
18th, was one of the sharpest and most |
fatal to human life experienced for
years. 1t came from the regions of the |
Northwest far beyond the boundary
line. Lieut.. Woodruff said it EXTEND
ed from calgary in the British Pos
sessions to Little Rock, Ark" But
it extended further south than this, |
for it WAS violent enough to cause con-
siderable suffering IN Northern Texas.
II seems to have covered the west
from the Rocky Mountains to the
lakes. The cold was intense, reaching
60 below zero At Belgrade, Montana,
in this section During the storm here
It was Is to Is below.
The latest estimate of the number
who perished is nearly two hundred.
Tie loss was not confined to any one
state or territory, but extended from
the British Possessions to Texas. The
lOss i0 Dakota and Nebraska was es-
pecial!y heavy, and the reports of
school teachers (generally young wom-
en) and scholars who perished, is un-
precedented in the history Of the
country.
Tha details of individual deaths and
of sufferings, rs given in the des-
patches, would fill volumes, and we
can only give general statements.
There are many cases given of heroic
struggle and of sacrifice for others.
A Minneapolis despatch says: The
Journals revised list of blizzard fatal
tiles shows 81 dead in Dakota, 13 in
Minnesota, & in Iowa, II in Nebraska
and 2 in Montana; total l35. IS per-
Sons are also reported missing. A
Faulkton, u. T., Journal special says
that six persons are known to have
perished near there, and it is rumored
that six or seven others are also lost.
Additional reports bring the list up
to nearly 200.
A Galveston despatch says the bliz-
lard struck the Gulf ut O'Clock Sun.
day morning, and u Fort Worth des.
patch says:
The storm which began on Saturday
is abating aud reports Of losses are be-
ginning to be received. A farmer
named Williams was frozen to death
in Fannin county. n negro boy was
| found frozen to death in Il dry goods
box ut Cleburne, in johnson county,
and il negro named johnson was frozen
to death il Coke county. Conmuni-
cation with the cattle regions has not
yet been opened, but the impression il
49, IL,
frozen. The mercury ranged from 8
degrees below zero to ~ above on Sat
| ur,lay night and Sunday.
This is tho most terrible record, 40
| far rs loss of human life is concerned.
which any storm has left for years.
| The stock loss is no doubt enormous.
Since the above was written reports
continae to arrive which show most
appalling loss of life and dreadful suf-
fering. Dispatches from Yankton,
Dak., say that 100 human beings per-
ished within a radius of so miles Of
that city. At least 900 persons. it is
said, will suffer the loss of arms or
legs. The loss If stock is placed at
5000 head IN that vicinity. Bon
Homme county reports % deaths, Clay
Is, and Yankton Is. and this, it is
thought, will be doubled.
Never. within the memory Of the
| oldest settler in the west, has there
been such terrible loss Of teachers
and scholars. as are reported from Da.
kota and Nebraska especially. 1t WAS
veritable ''slanghter of the limo.
cents" in u number Of places.
Terrible suffering is again reported
in Kansas and the Southwest. Il des
patch from Kansas City says:
A few cases of freezing haye been re-
ported to the police in this city, but
the reports that come from western
Kansas are appalling. The billiards
that ragged Though that section q few
weeks ago left the people in such bad
condition that they were unable to
stand the severe weather of the past
24 hours, and large number of deaths
from cold and starvation are known to
| have occurred. A car load of provis.
ions was started yesterday from Wich-
ita to Ashland, Clark county. but the
storm stopped the train: 1t IS stated
that 5000 people in Clark county are in
| destitute condition, and unless i'm
| Of deaths will be fearful to cOntem.
pJNIcs uO ptS0tOA VI VIO L AV0Oy VGs uSsN
Church in Hartland, Kearney county,
writes to the Aid Society. lmploring
assistance for tho people of that sec
tiOn, saying that il relief does not
come, hundreds must die. The casual
ties among the stock have been greater
than ever known in the state of Kan
sas. Horses and cattle have perished
in their stalls, and their owners have
heen badly frozen while attempting to
care for them. On the Missouri Pacific
railroad two train loads of cattle com.
ing in from the west were caught in
the blizzard and every animal was fro.
zen to death. In Indian Territory the
entire range is frozen over and cattle
are drifting badly. AS most Of the
cattle on the western range are new
stock, the loss will be very great. they
being unused to such low temperature.
THE RBTORT CUURTEOUx
Our criminal and penitentiary neigh.
Dor, Bro. Miller, editor Of the Rock
County Herald, after saying that he
did not himself believe the editor OF
the ADVANCE to be ''insane", gravely
announces that there are people i''
Worthington who believe the ADVANCE
man to be q lunatic. This, the callow
and shallow young criminal puts out
rs something new, when the fact is
that the ADVANCE has, for the last II
k.>AS 81