Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-19
MANY NEW VICTIMS.
THE DEATH ROLL OF THE STORM
 LARGELY AUGMENTED.

the Death of Three of Her Scholars.
 Railroad Completely Blockaded-Pa'
 thetic Incidents Told of the Sufferers.
 ST PAUL. Jan 19-More details of deaths and terrible suffering caused by the blizzard are constantly arriving. In Hurd county, ID. T., a farmer who started for a doctor was found thirty-six 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. Highmore, D. T., reports that Sister Wilim- eva, of Stephen mission, was caught by the blizzard on her return from the home of the priest where she had been experimenting the laundry work. The quarter section within which the mission buildings are is fenced, and when she was found by searchers using rope to guide them she was standing up still alive. She was carried to her room, where she died. Mrs. Anthony Haby of twenty-five miles north is reported lost.
 Word comes from Wolsley, near Huron, D. T., of two more deaths. A boy of 16, Burdett Schofield, left Wolsley just before the storm for his home with load of coal. He unfastened the team from the sled and went some distance, when the horses got into a snow drift. There he left them. His body
  Druse family live on farm nine miles south west of Wosley. Katharine Druse, with a sister, were at the barn sixty rods from the house, when the storm came up. Katharine started for the house but lost her way. The next morning her body was found. forty rods from the house.
 In Bon Homme county, D. T., nineteen deaths are reported. From south Dakota, 1O4 deaths are reported. In Bon Homme county, 2O0.head of frozen cattle were counted in one place, and 140 in another. Dead cattle and hogs may be seen along the road from Yankton to Springfield. The snow drifts are said to be thirty feet deep. Some persons missing are yet unaccounted for.
 Miss Louie, Royce, school teacher eight miles from Plainvew, Neb, had but three pupils on the day of the storm. She started at } p. m. with the children for house about twenty rods distant, but lost her way. All laid down in the snow, and Miss Royce wrapped the little ones up as best she could. Early in the night one child died, and later a second ore, and just morning broke the third child succumbed to the cold. Miss Royce then managed to reach the house, less than twenty rods away. Both her feet are badly frozen, and they will probably have to be amputated.
 A school teacher and eight children, names
 
 have perished. Five men named Sticl1le, brothers, are reported from the same place to have been frozen to death, and also an old man named Close and boy named Miller. Mrs Miller the boys mother, was also badly frozen and will lose both legs. She was re- turning from the funeral of another son when caught in the storm.
 The fatalities of the blizzard on the prairie districts of Iowa are being gradually made public. Byron Cleveland of Manchester, Delaware county, has received information that his two sons, aged 15 and 17 years, were frozen to death together with ninety head of cattle. The boys were driving the cattle to water, about mile from the house, when the blizzard struck them, and their dead bodies have just been found. The cattle were frozen stiff
 John Olney was found in a snow drift near Marathon, frozen dead Miss Mae Henning and boy named Julius, 12 years of age, started in a sleigh to attend party in com pany with two young men. When the storm struck them they lost their way, and the young Len deserted the girl and the boy and reac!;e:i q farm house in safety. The deserted pair rrlained out in the storm all night, and in the mcrning they were found partially cove:"l "ith snow. The young lady will lose beth feet, and the boys hands and feet were tad!y frozen. He was saved from death by tue brave girl, who wrapped him in the only blanket left them.
 The worst blockaded road ill Iowa is the St. Louis Des Mones and Northern, which has no5 had a train over it's line since last Wednesday, and little prospect of having one for several days yet. The towns along the line are cut off from communication with the outside world.