Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1888-01-21
A TERRIBLE STORM.
Nearly 400 Lives Lost-Inci-
dents OF the Storm.
DEATH ON THE PRAIRIE.
A Brave Little Teacher-How
She Faced tho Storm,

0AAO - 'SOO0 Wiz ASbON Aas
ST. PAUL, january 1G--Thc terrible
storm which has swept over the North.
west. hlockading railroads In five States.
Is now over. and the victims of It's fury
are being counted. The pi,ifnl list Is
growing almost every hour. II Is not
improbable, when the record il complete,
Il will show almost two hundred lives
sacrificed to the awful fury of the blizzard.
Next TO this the worst blizzard that the
Northwest ever experienced occurred Jan.
:, 8 and o, 1873. In that storm seventy
people were frozen TO death and a thous-
and dollars worth Of property destroyed.
The pres Mt storm promises to be even
more terrible in its results. II came with
out warning. At sunrise last Wednesday
Dakota never had more lovely winter
weather. The air was clear rs crystal
and every object about the horizon was
distinctly visible. The wind was from the
south, warm and balmy, and before the
sun was high in the sky decided tl,aw
had set in.
THE BLIZZARD STARTS.
Farmers took advantage Of the bcauti.
full weather TO go to town, 10 draw wood
and hay. About noon cloud was seen
along the northwestern horizon, lying
close TO the ground, but stretched from
the west 10 the north in dark scmi.cir.
Gle. Little attention was paid 10 II, but
in an hour the cloud had swept over the
country, the sun was Obscured and the
snow was falling fast and gale was
sweeping from the northwest with terri.
BILE fury. The blizzard had begun. The
mercury fell rapidly and by 3 o'clock II
was fifteen degrees below zero and the
next morning il registered thirty degrees
below. All the while the wind Increased
In fury, the snow fell thicker and the
large amount of snow that was already
on the ground was blown into powder
and hurled along by the wind.
On the prairie nm otjrc, forty feet dis
tant could not he seen. 4 mans voice
could not be heard six feet. The mir was
full OF snow us fine rs flower and the roar.
ing Of the wind AMI the darkness caused
by so much SNOW In the air made the
scene the most dismal, drcar and forsakcn
that man ever looked upon. Every rail.
road in Dakota, Minnesota and many
Iowa, Nebraska aud Wisconsin railroads
were blocked. Telegraph wires every
where were down and il was not until
Saturday that the full extent and awful
results Of the storm became apparent.
The telegraph hourly brings the most pitt.
ful stories Of suffering, terrible struggles
for life and heroic deeds by the brave men
and women Of the siOrm.sirickcn sec.
iions that have never been cqualcd.
DEATH oN THE PRAIRIE.
Mary Council, II little school teacher
near Cavour started home with two Of
her pupils, boy and girl The boy left
them and persisted. Miss Council pu,
her dress folds about the little girl and
made her walk n,l night. shcl,cring her
charge with her body They were found
the next morning, alive, hut horribly fro.
zen. Another teacher. Miss jacobson,
near Sioloir, .taric,l home with little
girl and both persisted. When found Miss
jacobson was crOuchetl in u little hollow
in1hc ground with her arms about the
little girl while her dress skirt was wrap.
ped around her. Her own bonnet was
or her head aud her hands clu,ched her
dress nj her throat. bu, there was smile
on her face. o
Two children, a bo, aud girl of 10.
scph Hutchinson. near Garry, were lost
going home from school. Twenty-Five
men At once started on the search for them
and the mother could not he kept from
going along. The poor woman was with
the party who iound them. They were
lying close ,oscihc, and the bay had his
sisters hands between bis own. Thurs
day forenoon just before the blizzard
struck ,hi. point party of seven farmers
about twenty-five miles northeast of here
started for their homes, having been here
with wheat, The report comes that the
bodies of four of them have been found
dead. Searching parties are out looking
for the others. Mrs. Knuison, Of Rush.
more, was found frozen TO death within
forty feet of her door. Her husband was
absent and becoming uneasy, she started
in search Of him. losing her life in the net.
TERRIBLE DEATH LIST.
William Morrill,. u filty .ycar.old farm Ia.