The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-01-20
APPALLING.
The Death List Of the Late Blinsard FOOta
up Nearly 300.
Tales of SUFFERING Heretofore un-
known.

had tabnlated list Of the victims Of
Thursdays blizzard so far as heard from.
The figures are appalling, showing that
the dead in Dakota number 81, in Min
Is, in Iowa 6, in Nebraska 10, while 20
or so more In the States named are miss
ing and in all probability succumbed 10
the fury ofthe storm. In Montana,
where the blizzard must have ragged |
with no less disastrous results no relia-
able reports have yet been received.
Later advices received to-day show that
the number of dead will reach nearer
200 than $50, and it is still feared the
worst has not been told
The Journal, in detailing some of the
events of the storm, goes on to say that
though the death list is already large,
later information may add TO its num-
Der, while some reported dead may be
found comfortably housed
The loss of life Is unusually large be-
cause there was no warning Of the
storm. No sooner had the first snow
began to fall than farmers in town hur-
ried out onto the prairies to reach home
and pupils hastily dismissed from school
trudged homeward, wholly unconscious
of the impending danger. So utterly
binding was the storm that even In the
populous city of Huron people became
/ bewildered, and temporarily lost in try
ing to cross a street. Signal Service Of
ficer Glenn, OF Huron, started to go
across an open block which had side
walk, destined for home. Instead of
going block west he brought up against
q fence block southeast. A train with
"a passengers was snowbound within
four miles of Balaton. After nine I'M
successful efforts to reach the hungry
travellers by relief trains it was finally
accomplished by tying long rope to a
telegraph pole and then swinging anout
in semi-circle until the next pole was
T found. This was successfully repeated
until the train was reached. On the
prairies where there we're no land
marks the difficulty in reaching shelter
; was greatly increased.
Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota suffer
ed equally with Dakota and the number
a of fatalities would have been as great in
either state had they been as sparsely
: settled as Dakota. Emil Grossman, q
Z Perm, Nebraska, farmer, was found dead
g within 20 yards of his house. John
q Sparks, an ex-member of the Nebrasks
q legislature, was found dead within g
p quarter of a mile of his home, neal
q Beatrice. At Huron, Dak., the steam
d whistles were blown at frequent inter
3 walls during the day and night. This
thoughtful action served to guide tc
a shelter several storm tossed pilgrims o.
= the prairie.
4 One of the most pathetic deaths ye
# reported is that of Mr.. Chambers, o
i Huron. In company with his 9yeal
= old son he started out to drive home hil
q cattle. Overtaken and bewIldered by
4 the storm he dug hole in a snow banE
j and snugly wrapped up his son anG
told him to lie STILL The father theI
q started for help, but was unable to Sc
y cure 1t. Returning to the drift he lay
q down beside the boy and prayed tina
the boys life might be saved. In the
d morning rescuing party found the boy
, only slightly frost bitten. The father
q aas frozen and had been dead less thar
! an hour when help arrived.
At Ellsville, OAK, Miss Emma Lamar
b a school teacher started TO go home with
: pupil, the little daughter of Mr.. Aus
= min. Eighty rods distant from the
!; school house they became lost in the
storm. They wandered around unit
Miss Lamar, who was carrying the little
. girl, sank exhausted. They were bott
3 found dead the next morning. the little
girl clasped close to the teachers
breast.
. Olea A. Egge, of Hartland, MIMI, 6
brother of Prof. Egge, of Mortified
college, is among the number frozen tc
death.
= Lewis Merriman and son, living IL
miles northeast of Altoona, Iowa, were
half a mile from home when the storm
began. The son gave his overcoat to
his father and started for home, but
persisted before he reached shelter.
He was found q few rods from home
and the father, go years old, was found
dead where the son had left him.
In one school in Sphinx county the
teacher kept every pupil with her, and
they staid all night with her in safety.
8 Ezra Fuller, large stock dealer at
Cayour, went 10 his neighbor Parsons
TO get girl to work. They were lost
and the girl was badly frozen, but will
live. Fuller was found buried in drift
with his left hand sticking out. The
hand must be amputated,
The bodies of Mrs. Chapman and her
two grandchildren, Eddie and Minnie
Faust, were touLd Sunday afternoon
; ~ miles from Stewart, Neb. They were
on their way home, distant 20 miles,
when oVertaken by the storm. The
ponies were found hItrhed to the sleigh.
Mrs. Chapman was lying on the ground
by the sleigh, while the two children
were found in the sleigh. Mr.. Mallas
was caught III the storm and was found
frozen to death only few rods from bis
house which he bad attempted 10 reach.
A man named Mason WIS frozen to death
Is miles south of Stewart, j. y. Hines,
of Schuyler, Neb., died from the effect