Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-22
FRIGIDITY ITSELF.
The Fearful Cold Still Prevalent IN the
Northwest.

Northwest.
NEBRASKA CRY, Neb., Jan. 21.-Judge
]. F. Kinney, agent of the Yankton Sioux
Ir2ian agency. JIM Dsketas arrived hers
yesterday .after being nine days on the
rod. Fiee.days5 were necessary for tie
party to travel thirty miles. The Their
memeter was thirty degrees beiow most OF
the time. The Judge says the loss of-fife
in Dakota has been greatly underestimated
as the Dakota papers have tried to cover II
up
He describes the scene which took place
on board the cars The coal was running
low. the passengers were crowded into one
Car trying to keep warm. Two babies
persisted. The men discarded all the outer
garments they could spare and gave them
% the ladies and children. Finding these
lot enough. they brought mail sacks from
he postal car and wrapped the children
up IN them. At one station, the Judge
SAYS, nineteen frozen bodies were brought
iu,o the depot in one day. In Bonhammie
county the list OF deaths will reach fully
l51 Estimates as made at Yankton, yes
terdag, as 10 the loss Of life in the terri
tory toots up 70 .0G0. The counties where
the loss is largest are: BonhamnIie 100.
Lincoln, Beadle. Speank and Ward. Inc
northern and central parts OF the territory
nave not been heard from fully.
MINNEAPOLIS. NinE., Jan. 2l.-ln re-
gard 70 the Nebraska City, Neb. special
quoting Indian Agent Kinney, TO the effect
zh9tths loss OF life III Dakota by the biz
zarti will foot tap TO 1000 Mr.. }. ;. Ne:
Laine; editorof the Journal says;The future
reports are rather likely TO decrease than
to increase the list. 1t is simple impossible
that news has been suppressed for the
Journal reports have been verified entirely
by the morning papers. How, a man who
confesses 10 having been showed up Tor
the pas; nine days can estimate the loss OF
life with more accuracy than the new>pa-
papers, IN constant Geographic communi
cation with the wholeterritOry Is lnconi
prehensibe.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Jan. 81 This is
the coolest day ever known here. Last
night reliable thermometers showed forty
eight degrees below zero and at this
morning standard government the
mometer showed forty degrees below, the
lowest that can be registered on IL
A Chippewa, Wis, special says. it was
sixty-eight degrees below zero there last
uight
KANSAS CITY, Jan. GA Times special
from Omaha, says that during the pas
forty-eight hours a large number Of tc!e-
grams have been received at the mon
Pacific headquarters, stating that the Goa
cars of the company have been sacked by-
farmers in the western part of the state.
There is a great scarcity of coal along the
line of the road in Western Nebraska, and
the inhabitants during the recent blizzard
have taken forcibie measures to replenlsn
their stocks of fuel On Wednesday last.
100 men took possession of two cars loaded
with coal at Cozad and the performance
was repeated yesterday at Shelton.
III, n 20 NJ
Gibbons and kearney.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 81. = The coolest
weather of the season was experienced In
this place this mOrning,sw hen the mercury
reached twenty-eight degrees below zero.
1t moderated somewhat later in the day,
however Advices from the interior of the
state show that a very bitter night was
experienced everywhere: Hudson reports
ffty-five below zero, Princeton tifty-two
below, hartford fifty-two below, Sparta
fifty below and so on down the scale. At
no point was the record above thirty.
Warmer weather is predicted. ~
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Jan. 2l.-Sincefits rec
ord of -fftytwc degrees below zero New
Years day, 1864, the mercury has not
fallen so low in st. Paul as last night,
when it touched forty three below, as re
corded at the signal office.
Brainerd reports fifty-two below this
~
fered somewhat with railroadiny, trains
on all roads being from one to ten hours
late The weather has materially moder-
ated tonight. =
MILLbANK. Oak, Jan. 2l.-Two passen-
ger trains from Minneapolis that had
been blockaded, reached here this morn
ing the first from the east since the 10th.
The conductors report drifts as high as the
telegraph poles Great fears are enter
tanned that the road may be permanently
closed before spring in which case much
suffering must be inevitable from the fuel
famine that would result.
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. 2l.-Specials frem
various points throughout the state show
that the weather of last night was the
coolest of the season, and in many. places
the coolest for several years. Cheboygan
reports 80 below, Portland p, Point Ignace
%, Iona 20, Hersey IS, East Tawss IS and
Alma -. 30 -
SARATOGA. y. Y, Jan. 2f.-Tnis is the
coolest night of the season At II O'Clock
the mercury indicated 20 degrees below
zero and was falling fast.