Butte semi-weekly miner., 1888-01-18
A SAD RECORD.
List Of Those Who Perished In the Biz.
zard SO Far Reported.
Dakota In the Lead With the Ice King
Victims.
Fearful Experience Of School Teacher
and Three Children.
School Children In Yankton Lost Re-
turning From School.
A Case In Which q st. Bernard Dog Be.
lied His Ancestry.

sr. PAUL, January 14.-The loss OF lii
by the blizzard Thursday is shown to hav
been very great, by far the largest numbe
Of casualties being reported from Dakot'
points The following summary mad
shows the names OF those who perished
but later dispatches will show others:
In Dakota: Hitchcock, Emil Gilbertson
Mitchell, Geo. Allan. Jas. Anderson; Minot
Jas. Smith and two sons; Raymond, VIM
Driver and two sons, Chas. Heath; Huron
TIE. Gilkinson. Rowland Chambers, Emil
Gilman, Thomas and William Nelson and
an unknown man; Aberdeen, VIM. Love,
Judson Westgate; Bowkle, NJ: Paine; Ros.
coe, Peter Teerhame; Virgil, Frank Nirison,
Vim. Nirison, Jos. Wilson; Iroquois. Mrs
Devine, Adam Corner, J. W. Gos.ee;
Brackston, w. B. Hadlep; Delaware. Miss
Cora Curtis; Brookings, unknown young
man; Clarendon, Miss Steenberner, OF Am
herst, and three Others missing; Water
town, four farmers dead and three missing;
Lesterville, two men and two children,
names not known.
In Minnesota: Adrian, John Daring;
Luverne John 10y.
In Iowa: Sioux City, unknown man;
Wood, Mrs. Fitzgerald and two children
In Neb. aska: Omaha, Fred Eller, cigar
maker, young lady. name not reported,
Wexell Beck, aged years; Porter, George
". Post; David City. a child OF John Den
linger.
Iu Montana: Belgrade. VIM. Overman;
Marysville, Patrick Conley.
FEARFUL EXPERIENCE.
De SMEr, OAK, January 40. E.
6tearns, teaching school about six miles
north OF De Smet, with three children, were
caught in the blizzard and were out in the
storm twenty-five hours. The boy had his
feet frozen solid to the ankles. He walked
a mile to house. He will lose both feet.
One girl was so chilled she was unconscious
hvs hours after being found.
LIVES LOST.
YANKToN, Dak., January 13-In the
storm of Thursday several school children
we're lost while returning from school.
Farme.s returning from town were over
taken and wandered helplessly over the
prairie during the night. Two men were
froze.l to death at Lesterville, this county, |
and two others at the same place are in q |
critical condition. Two children were |
frozen in WakOnda, a small town in an ad. |
joining county.
THE DOG WAS NO USE.
HURON, Dak., January l4.-Rowland |
Chambers saved his son by burying him in
the snow, but himself perished. When
found they were half q mile from the
house. and large st. Bernard dog was
with them. The boy says the dog barked
all night. and his father called for help;
that his father did not die till an hour be-
fore the rescuing party reached them. The
boy is only Slightly frozen. A party of
four that started for Lake Byron an hour
before the storm have not been heard from.
SEVERE ALONG THE COAST.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 14.-The cold
snap extends throughout the coast. At
6isson. CAL, the Thermometer registered
10 below this morning. All the rivers in
Oregon are frozen. and steamboats, are
tied up. 1t was 27 above here to-day, the /
eoldest on record.
IN COLORADO.
DENVER, January 14.-The weather here ]
continues clear and cold with no snow. c
The thermometer this morning registered : !
26 below; tonight it is below. As yet the !
stock has not suffered to any extent, and /
if, as anticipated, the cold spell is over in e
day or two, the loss will not be greater
than usual. Railway travel is not greatly
interfered with. Mountain trains are on
time. Burlington trains are reported on ,
time. The Missouri & Pacific got into ~
Pueblo but few hours late. The Santa Fe
and Union Pacific, not so fortunate, are
reported from twelve to eighteen hours be- q
1ind.