Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-18
ABOUT The BLIZZARD.
The Death Roll Increased TO
Gaze Hundred and
Thirty Six.
A Few More PARTICULARS Relative TO
the Visitation Of the 18th Inst.
HUTCHINSON County, VICTIMS.

eNs - 49, IS
son Alonzo, farmers near Trip, started
to water their stock Just before th,
storm came up. All efforts tc find thei
bodies have been unavsilipg.
Won. Reiswig and his hired man, liv.
ing on Jim river twenty miles north o.
Scotland, have been found frozen dead
The daughter of P. IL. Sweet, of Oil.
vet, will die. The family we're out il
the storm over night and are all badl,
frozen. Mr.. Sweet will lose both hands
The family are In destitute circum,
stances.
George Veilhauef, a stock dealer a
Trip, was known TO be on the prairi,
with stock when the storm came ap. NJ
trace of him can be found.
HORACE oLARK's EXPERIENCES.
Yesterday afternoon Horace T.. Clarl
and wife reached Yankton from the
north part of Yankton county, where
Mrs. CLARK has been housed since th.
storm. MIR. and Mrs. CLARK had an ex
p~erience in the blizz ard which could not
have been worse without resulting In
death to both. The blizzard caught
them about two O'Clock aud came from
an apparently clear sky. It's onslaught
was so sudden that the horses refused to
proceed and MIR. Ozark removed the bar
nesses and let them go. He took q STRAP
from the harness, fastened one end of il
to Mrs. Clark's waist and the other end
to his own, and they then turned then
backs to the wind and began a random
wandering. After how many hours they
knew not they ran square against a hay
stack, and into this they burrowed. In
the morning MIR. CLARK ventared out and
started on his hands and knees for what
looked like q house. He was obliged to
crawl because his clothing wss frozen
stiff. What he thought wss a house
was @ bunch OF bushes, and he started
for another point. This time he found q
house, where a farmer named Derrick
lived. He secured assistance and re.
turned to the stack for his wife. Mrs.
CLARK Yves taken to the house, where
she remained unable TO be up, until yes.
terday, when she reached this city with
hsr husband, Her right side and limbs
are frozen and her face spd right ear
body frost bitten. Mr.. Olark's hands
and face suffered slightly. They are
Gor.iri;r. With z 6. S:sra.
CAPTAIN HAM1EsTER's STORY
Captain Hamlester returned this
morning from Scotland, where he az
rived on Sunday last, after spendipg
Thursday aud Thursday night in
Tyndail. He tells a story of che storm as
he saw it which is very interesting, bnt
which is far from pleasant to listen to
because OF the death and devastation
which it chronicles. Captain Hamiester
walked from Tyndall to Scotland, a dis
lance of thirteen miles, on Friday, after
the storm, right through a section over
which the elements ragged in all their
ferooity. The loss of live stock ia that
section is terrible to contemplate and
many q farmer who began the winter
with q herd of fat, sleek cattle and
horses finds himself almost destitute OF
stock. Mr.. HamIester brings the first
intelligence of the location OF the bodies
of Messrs. Winters and Robson. They
we're found about two miles north OF
Bon Homme village lying side by eide
IN q snow drift in positions which told
too plainly that they lad lain down to
rest not thinking of death. Near them
stood the sled in which they travelled.
The bodies are still at Tyndall, where
they We're taken after being found
Captain Hamiester talked with q mar
who was with q party which discovered
the bodies of two unknown Russians.
which were found sitting bolt upright
n a sled to which the horses were
hitched, the whole party. men and
horses, frozen to an iceberg. This dis.
covesy was made on Enamel creek
west of Tyndaii.
INCIDENTS OF THE STORM
Ell. Bruce, went to baskerville TO-
day, from whence he will go to his
home.
a. L.. Twogood, who left Yankton for
his ranch in Nebraska just before the
storm on Thursday. was caught by the
storm, and for an hour and q half he
sought shelter In vain. Finally be
found o house, where he remained until
the unpleasantness was over.
Harold Baker, the boy who was re-
ported missing from the Brown ranch
IN Nebraska, has not yet been heard
from and it Is presumed that he perish
ed. BE was living on the Maclagen and
Towgood ranch and was q fayorite with
all who knew him. His parents reside
IN England.
Farmers from east of the James river
report a very large number of prairie
chickens frozen IN the storm.
A large number Of people have visited
Fred Neth's store since yesterday morn
ing to view tie body of Frantz Weisner
Vennor, the neighbor of E. L.. Bruce
who was missing, has returned to hit
home without the least mark of the colo
upon him. He spent the night in {
small shed some miles from his home.
ANebraska farmer in town so.day
who was at Santee agency during thu
blizzard, says there was considerable.
destruction of life and heavy loss o
stock in that section. He could give u,