St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-15

awful to contemplate. The storm was
SO severe yesterday and to-day that all
efforts 10 render aid to those who were
not fatally frozen were abandoned. The
eases thus far reported, together with
those already brought into town, are:
Jacob Schort, farmer, dead; one Cole
man, dead, and four companions who
lose limbs; Joseph Koeher and two
companions, dead; Annie Shufelt and
sister, aged thirteen and sixteen years,
dead-they were lost while going home
from neighbor's house; f. l.. Bruce,
limbs must be amputated; two men who
started home from Wakonda were
frozen TO death, names unknown; Mrs.
Jacob kurtz, limbs frozen; Fred Neil
bier, limbs frozen. \ number of deaths
from freezing are reported, and the
bodies will probably be recovered to-
morrow.
ANOTHER DEATH LIST.
Special 10 the Globe.
CANTON, OAK, Jan. 1.-THE storm
that ragged throughout Dakota for nine
hours Thursday night was the first real
blizzard since 1870. The thermometer
did not run low, but the binding snow
was too dense for outdoor travel. The
storm came with but q few moments
warning, and those Off the line of the
telegraph knew hardly what was in
store for them until the mischief was
done. The blizzard struck Southwest
ern Dakota and Western Iowa at just
about the time the public schools were
closing for the day, and ii is feared that
many children have perished in the
country. Where the teachers refused
TO allow the scholars to at
tempt the hOmeward journey
everything is all right, but schools
that closed promptly at o'clock will
lose many scholars. The following
deaths have been reported so far and
the list will be considerably swollen:
Two men at Primghar, To-; two school
children at Inwood, To-; farmer and
team near Sioux Falls, Oak; two men
between Marion Junction and Bridge
water, OAK: one man near White Lake,
Dak.: two boys and ninety-fve head of
cattle near hardwood, To-: four school
children near LennOX, Oak; the bodies
OF the latter were not found until noon
to-day and one boy was still alive. He
died in few moments after being taken
out of the snow. They had lain in the
drift thirty-siX hours.
NEBRASKA VICTIMS.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 1.-THE weather
to-day has been the coldest of the sea-
son, the thermometer going down to
ACNNS' bSlOh. tlilt IL ltOU OCCi stbOSC
IL deg. below for the past twenty-four
hours. Reports of fatalities from
Thursdays storm are still COM
ing in. Mrs. p. Smith was frozen to
death while returning home from a
neighbours at Woodlawn. John Sparks,
an eX-member of the legislature, was
found frozen stiff and dead within a
quarter of a mile from his home, nine
miles from Beatrice. Emil GroSSman of
Peru, a farm laborer, was found dead
within twenty yards of his house. A
child named Bodine is reported missing
from his home near Nebraska City.
Railroad travel is again badly inter
rupted.
FATHER AND son DEAD.
Special to the Globe.
HITCHCOCK, Dak., Jan. 14.-Lewis
Merriman, aged sixty, and son Halle,
aged eighteen. fifteen miles northeast OF
here, perished in Thursdays storm.
The son was few rods from home. Mr..
MeIrimau was born near Hartford,
Conn, and lived for several years at
Dixon, ILL.,, coming to Dakota about five
years ago. He leaves a wife and five
grown children. Mr.. Wellington, eight
miles northeast of here, was in the
storm with his son, aged. twelve, for
five hours. The boy may die.