The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-16
YESTERDAYS SECOND EDITION.
The following items OF news appeared in our
Second Edition of Sunday.l
The storms Victims.


ST. PAUL, Jan 1.-THE loss of life by the
great blizzard of Thursday is shown to have
been very great, by far the largest number or
casualties being reported from Dakota points
the Evening Dispatch has the following sum-
mary of dead and missing, thirty-six in all, out.
as win be seen by special dispatches received
to-day and tonight, the list will be largely aug
mented when the returns are all In.
At Adrian, Mimi, John Caring; Hitchcock,
Oak, Emil Gilbertson; Mitchell. OAK, Geo. Al
len, jr, and Jos. Anderson; Minot. OAK, Jas
Smith and two sons; Raymond. OAK, Nrn
Drivers two sons and Charles Heath; Omaha,
Neb-. Fred Eller. cigar maker: young lady
name not reported, and Wexwsll Beck eyed
David City, Neb., child of John Dem
linger: Sioux City. Ia, unknown man;
Belgrade. NJ T.. VIM. Overman; Marysville. H.
Gilkeson and Rowland Chambers; Luverne
MINI. John 10y; Inwood, Ia. Mr.. Fitzgerald s
two children; Aberdeen. d. T.. William Love
Roscoe, ID. T., Peter Terhume; Vergin d. T.. /.
Frank Nierson, VIM. Nierson aud Jos. Wilson;
Iroquois. D. T.; Mrs. Devine, Adam Corner and
Delamere, d. t., Miss Cora Curtis.
Brooks. OAK. special says: "A young man
started from here to go into the country. Thurs
day, and cannot be found. 1t is feared he has
persisted. Several others had narrow escapes. !"
Claremont. OAK, dispatch says Reports
have been received here of four persons lost in
the blizzard. but without particulars, except in
the case of Misss Stineburner, or Amherst, who
was out all night and can hardly recover"
On Thursday forenoon. just before the biz
zard struck. "a, party OF seven en- formers, hVing
t.. started for home. The report comes that
the bodies OF four of them have been found.
dead. Searching parties are looking for the
others
The school at Inwood. Ia, was dismissed in
the midst of the binding blizzard, and two FItz-
gerald children were lost in the storm. Others
are likely to have persisted Two farmers started
from Bridgewater to Marion Junction, and per-
ished on the way.
The dead body of man was found near Sioux
Falls OAK, last night frozen solid, as also was
the team of horses with him. His face was so
bloated as to be unrecognizable, and he has not
been identified. The horses had been unhitched
from the sleigh with the harness on. and the
man had no ovsrcoat on. and it is supposed that
ne, with others. was riding, and that he un-
nitched the team to go for help, leaving the
others in the sleigh covered by his overcoat.
Hunting parties out Another heavy snow
storm IS now in progress.
Three young men living on the Jim river, east
OF Mitchell. D. t., are still missing. Trains will
be blocked for q week
Besides Thomas Gilkinson, Emil Gilman,
Robert Chambers and an unknown man were re-
ported dead at Huron up to last night. Thomas
and William Nelson were found frozen TO death
this morning They lived nine miles west of
town. Joseph W. Wilson, living in the
neighborhood. is also missing. Chambers saved
his son by buryiug him in the snow, but himself
persisted When found they were half a mile
from the house, and a large st. Bernard dog was
with them. The boy says the dog barked all
Highb ana MS Iatner calIed Tor nelp; JhaI MS
father did NOT die till hour before the rescu-
ing party reached them. The boy is only
slightly frozen. A party of four that started
for Lake Byron an hour before the storm has
not been heard from.
At Yankton. in the storm of Thursday. sew
eral school children were lost while returning
from school. Many farmers returning home
from town were overtaken. and wandered help
lessly over the prairie during the night Two
men were frozen to death at Lesterviile, and
two others at the same place lie in a critical
condition Two children were frozen at Waken-
da, a small town near Yankton.