Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-26

1ttt1x0fO-Vne LIST OF S1Ct1ul1 GirOW1ng-
Fully Two Hundred Ferrous Frozen to
Death.
ST. Paul. MINI, Jan 1a-Reports Of loss
Of Life in last weeks storm continue to
come in and the lists up to last night
showed from 153 to 159 victims and it would
seem probable that the final summary, il
such can ever be made, will show quite 3OC
names.
Sarah Dolan, school teacher Of Good
win, near Clear Lake, OAK, and Hugo
Scheff, farmer OF Altamont, OAK, have
been found frozen to death. and 50 far four
deaths have been reported in that section,
but it is feared there were many more.
News reached Jamestown, Oak, Of tho
freezing to death o: NJ. A. Ryan. farmer
living nesr Windsor, where he had claim.
HIS body was found by q searching party
near q hay stack, about eight miles frem
Windsor. He had been in the stack and
had come out, unbuttoned his coat and laid
down on top of snow drift near the stack.
He hands were in position indicating that
he met death while praying. His horse
was found alive. He had matches in his
pockets when found, and friends wonder
why he did not set fire to the stack and
warm up. Mrs. Ryan is nearly crszed.
Hsnly, countryman, was found about ten
rods from his home. He had left Alexan-
dria to walk home. carrying forty pounds
of provisions, and had stopped several
times to rest and had at last fallen back
upon the snow and died. He served in
company f, Seventh Minnesota
1t ls reported that thirty -cne school chill
dren are missing in Turner County.
'rhroo philSrAn of Mr. HnipaS
Of Lennox, persisted while gong home from
school. The lady teacher pleaded with the
scholars not 10 leave the school room and
finally locked the doors, but they were too
many for her and had their own way. One
scholar, aged seventeen, was among the
lost. Mr.. Heines wanted to kill the school
mistress, but the explanation Of the balance
OF the scholars exonerated her. This
makes seven children lost IN the vicinity
OF Lennox.
rear of the wagon, all frozen stiff. were
found in the western part Of the county.
The driver probably persisted.
The death of Edwin Kvlling, farm boy
of seventeen years, has just been reported
from Canton, Oak. He went after hay and
was caught by the blizzard.
SIOUX FALLS REPORT.
Sioux FALLS, OAK, Jan. 1S.-The eighth
victim in the county Of the great blizzard
was discovered yesterday. 1t was Eric
Ericsson, a farmer, six miles from the city.
He was but short distance from his
house when the storm struck, but was soon
blinded by the snow and lost his way. He
Embarrassed the horses and unhitched the
front portion OF the bob-slcd, but was
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any thing further. The horses were found
the next day. but his body can not be found.
Henry Y. Bliss, farmer near Montrosa,
next county, went to the barn to do chores.
His wife put light in the window to guide
him back, but he never came.
james Kennedy, WHO passed the night in
a haystack, is but slightly frozen. His wife
and son, who went cut to find him, were
both frozen and the boys body has not
been recovered.
G. Grandstrom's body was found last
night. He was driving home from this
city and being overtaken by the storm un-
hitched the horses and then abandoned
them. He finally fell in the snow and
perished within twenty-five yards of his
house.
A German farmer, name unknown, in
Lincoln County, persisted while attending
to his cattle.
Another farmer at Brandon and an I'M
known tramp were lost in the storm.
1t is estimated that over 5000 head OF
cattle in this county alone persisted in the
storm. Several railroad cuts were filed
with their frozea carcasses.
In Northern Hurd County farmer who
started for O doctor was found thirty-sx
hours after with his horse standing beside
his dead body. A man six miles west Of
Willard left his house telling his wife that
if the storm increased he would stay at the
barn. He has not yet been found.
Tue report of the death Of a school teacher
and sixteen children near Lake township
in East Edmund County, at first discredit-
ed, is probably true. Parties who came from
Warner, Oak, state that the teacher and
siz children have been found. II. s. Chaplin,
of Minneapolis, supposed to have been lost.
has arrived in Aberdeen.
Mrs. Anthony Haby, of twenty-five miles
north. is reported lost. Word came from
Wclsley, near Huron. Of two more deaths.
A boy of sixteen, Burdett Schotield, left
Wolsley just before the storm sot in with
load of coal going to his home, five miles
south IF town. He unfastened the team
lTOL GuC Slcu asiu "cuG SOhO uIStdHCc,
when the horses got into a snow1rft-
There he left them. HIS body was found
five miles from the sleigh. The Druse
family 1--we on a farm nine miles west of
Wo.sley. Katherine Druse. with a sister,
were Mt the barn, about sixty rods from
the house. when the storm came up. She
started for tke house but fost her way.
The next morning her body was found
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most severely frozen are improving and
may recover.
A NEBRASKA LIST.
NEIGH. Neb.. jan. 1S.-A school teacher
and eight children, names unknown, were
lost in the storm in the northern rart OF
Holt County.
Five brothers named Sickle were frozen
to death six miles from here and al old
man named Close also persisted.
A boy named Miller was frozen to death
and his mother will lose both legs and an
arm. They were returning from the fune-
raj of a relative.
Miss Louie Royce, teaching school near
Foster, Neb., attempted to go from the
school house to a farm house twenty rods
away, with three children but lost her way
in the storm and all laid down in the snow.
The three children died during the night,
but Miss Royce reached the house in the
with both feet frozen, and they
will have to be amputated
Henry Kechhafer and his son also lost
their lives near the same place while try
ing to find some cattle. Their bodies were
found within ten rods Of a farm house
lying side by side.
Fifteen persons persisted in last Thurs
days storm IN Custer County alone. The
loss Of stock is said TO be enormous Par
tlculars are not obtanable. ..
Burned Alive.
RALEIGH, n. c., Jan. 17.-Near DObsOu,
bo,, .-,n l>.ox lar or