Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-01-08
THE BLIZZARDS.
How the Last Cycioue Struck
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Kansas.
Following are excerpts from Kansa:
papers touching the recent blizzard il
that State:
| CASUALTIES OF THE. STORM.
TorEYA, Kan. December 22.--Mr
J. II. Hazeltine, banker of johnson
| City, on the frontier, is in the city
He reports that farmer named
l.. Q. Clark, living neaY Col.
den, Grant county, left his fam.
| lily at home Monday to so to Hart
land, the nearest railroad point, for
the purpose of getting coal, his family
being entirely without fuel. He left
| Hartford late Monday evening with
his coal, and the next morning was
found about six miles from home,
lying by the side of his hors' 6, frozen
, s.iG, The animals were also frozen,
and all Of the bodies were partly GOV.
cred by snow. Clafk's wife and
three children had in the meantime
nea ly persisted, and had only saved
themselves from death by leaving
their shrll OF a house and taking
refuge from the blizzard in cave.
Two deaths are reported from
Grerly County, Situated on the Col
orado line. A brother and sister
named Robert and Sarah Holzapfel
who lived on a claim in an unsettled
portion of the country, found them
selves without fuel Sunday evening.
They tore down a small shed to burn
the lum' er, and that night all but the
small amount which they Themselves
had burned was stolen from them.
Early in the morning the young man
went to the town OF Horace, ab0ur
seven miles distant, and succeened in
getting 200 pounds OF coal late in the
afternoon. Being Obliged to travel
against the furious wind then blowing
he did not reach home until nearly
Midnight. His limbs were then numb
and he was SO exhausted that it WAS
with great difficulty that he gained
admission to the house. He found
his sister in bed, insensible and al
most stiff. She had been without fire
all day, and the poorly-built house al
forded her little protection. Although
the young man was almost frozen
himself, he tried TO revive his sister,
but to no avail.
The other death reported from
Greedy county is that OF a farmer TO
years old, whose name cannot be
learned. He lived alone. and was not
only without fuel, but without food
Being a recent settler in the coanty he
had no acquaintances. A widow,
canned Mrs. Reilly, and her two little
children perished in the storm OF
Monday night near Dlghton,
in Lane county. They were with
out fuel and the storm came SO
suddenly upon them that they
were unable to get it. The woman's
Oldest son started out in the storm to
get coal. He was overcome by the
intense cold, but fortunately wan
iered to the house Of neighbor. He
was unable to speak, and his arms.
feet and ears were frozen, and only by
Strenuous efforts his life was saved,
although he will probably lose his
feet.
There are reports OF great suffering
IL Clarke county, on the Indian Teri.
tory line. A family OF four were trav-
cling overland, and bring hut ten
mi es from home and several n lies
from any other house determined to
reach home that night in spite OF the
terrible storm, The horses we're over
come and the family were Obliged to
abandon the horses and wagon and
walk miles to the nearest house. A
two-year-old child iroze to death in
it's fathers arms before shelter was
reached. The others reached the
house badly frozen. The condition Of
the people in western and northwest.
ern Kansas is very bad. This part Of
the State has been only recently settled
and some Of the counties are still un-
organized. Nearly all the people settled
on government claims and were with
out money, depending entirely upon
the crop to be raised this fall. The
crop, however, was total failure be-
cause OF drouth, leaving the people.
as a general thing. destitute. The
majority of the people live in rudely
built houses, which afford very little
protection.
LINCOLN, Neb., December OFT is
believed that the reports OF the biz
zard sweeping over western Nebraska
will show that number of lives W. re
lost in the storm. Owing to the dis
tance from the railroad OF the new and
unprotected homesteads and settle
ments, the facts cannot be- known for
several days. In the recently organ
ized county of Perkins the death
of u man and boy is re-
ported. They were attempting to
make their ranch, twenty miles from
Ogallalah, when the storm over
powered them. Both were frozen to
death. Another man named John
Grant, who had been on railroad con-
struction work on the Black Hills ex-
tension Of the Burlington and Mis-
souri, River road, was fonnd dead one
mile out from camp. On the Kansas
line no dead have been discovered,
although suffering is reported as
very severe.