Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04
TWO HUNDRED
The Biting Billiards. Sad
Mission Completed.
Full Returns OF q "COld WOrld's''
Work In Iowa, Nebraska,
Dakota and Min.
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The following is a complete list Of the dead,
injured and missing As q result Of the mad
billiards. wild work throughout the states and
territories above named. According to the
latest and most reliable returns obtainable,
the list OF dead, injured aud missing, ranges
from 100 to POS.
The result Of tie great storms work, herein
given, is a complete compilation OF facts gath
cred from different sources relative to the vic.
Tins that persisted without giving the attend.
ant circumstance or the details Of their he
role death struggle with the elements at war.
In Dakota-Emil Gilbertsop at Hitchcock a
Sioux Falls man. two sons II William Driver
at Raymond; two Mitchell youths, Emma
Lamar, CAME Auman, William G. Gathuaite
Cora Gusts at Delamcrc; Mr.. Davis and son.
W. b. Headly at Barkston; Rowland Chambers
T. +. Gelkerson and James Newcomb's son a,
Huron; Frank and William Nerison at VirgiaI
Munger near Mitchell an unknown man near
Aberdeen; a teacher and two OF her pupils a,
Wyanbemere; u twelve year old son Of Johr
Walsh near Fulda; Mrs. Devine, Adam Gernc,
and j. w. Joslee at lroquois; George Allen
jr., and Joseph Anderson at Mitchell; -four
farmers, two Bridgewatcr men, Emil Gilman
Lewis Merrimsn and son at liitcVcock; Mis-.
jacobson, Ginde, G. Grundstrom, three un
known men, two children Of Joseph Butchin
son, thre Tyndall people, two Wakonda girls
jacob krutz, an unknown teacher, J. Pain,
at Bowdle; Peter Parkune at Roscoe; "a White
Lake man, four school children, James smith
and two sons at Minol.
In Minnesota-John 10y at Luverne; Mrs
Knutson.
In lowa-Two children of Mrs. Fitzgerald
at Inwood two boys; an unknown man a
Sioux City.
In ENTHUSIASTICALLY Of John Dilinger a
David CITY; Fred Eller, MAXWELL Beck, and
young lady at Omaha; Mrs. Z. Smith, a
Lincholn; John Sparks, Of Gage county; EN-
lily Grossman, Of Peru; Mrs. Chapman ant
her two little grandchildren, at Stuart: Mr.
Mason, near Stuart -- Matthews, near SUIT
ton: a child named Bodine. Others ar,
reported lost, and a number Of escapes will
frozen hands and feet are reported.
In Northumberland ~fIauley, at Marysville
William Oycrman, n. Belgrade.
In Kansas-James Kennedy, in Sherman
county.
Tom Anderson, a farmer Of Tracy, Mime
sofa, is missing. Belgrade, NJ. r., reports
rumors OF cowboys freezing In the Madison
valley. Saturday night and Sunday were ex
ceedingly cold all over the northwest. A,
Rraiparl IL Vyos ~ l,n1nu ot = n'nl,,l SnnJ,x
morning; al Bird Island, Minnesota. 80 below
at Farihault, Minnesota. A. below 1T Duluth
81 below; 1T Clearwater. Minnesota. 43 below.
The opening Of AL the blockaded roads al
over the northwest has begun in earnest, and
good - ogress is being made, despite the cold
Trains Will be running as usual in a dav or SO
The stories that come OF the deaths of thcs,
people are in most cases short, and there is {
similarity about them hat make ones blood
chill. "Found frozen 20 death is about all
there is 10 be said, for, except in q few in
stances where several lave been oycrtakcn by
the blizzard, all have met the same fate.
Searching parties have beer oGt from proba-
bly, POO towns in Dakota and northern Mime.
sofa, and the prompt action that seems u
have been taken las prevented the fatality
list from being several times its present
length. Some who have been rescued tell Of
the heroic deaths Of their companions. This
was the case at Huron when Robert Chambers
deliberately took OF his clothing to wrap 1t
around his 9-ycar-old boy to keep him from
freezing. The two spent the night in the
snow, and the father died an hour before hell
came to the boy johnnie, who was found
not severely frozen next morning.
M~INSEAPoLIs, MINI, Jan. 25.-A special
from Aberdeen, d.. T., says; Bessie Stansfleld,
a pretty nineteen-year-old teacher, left school
during the storm to 20 10 a farmers house,
thirty yards distant. Her dead body was
found nearly a mile from the school house.
-Four children froZc in a school house at Mel
lette. The teacher left them to get assistance,
and her body has not yet been found. Miss
Steubierner, another teacher, twelve miles
northeast of Aberdeen, was out all night in
the blizzard, and when found she was barely
alive, and died shortly afterward. William
Morrell, "A ffty-year-old farm laborer, six
miles west, went out OF the house Thursday
evening TO a few rods TO the barn. He be-
came confused and was found dead two
miles away. II. 8. Chaplin, Of Minneap-
oils, collector for a thrcshing machine
firm, left Worthwhile, near Aberdeen,
Thursday morning with a livcryman TO visit
farmers near by. They have not been heard
from and are probably dead. q. r. Owens
and wife, Of Wentworth, were lost on the
prairie Friday night. They were out eighteen
hours, and when found Mrs. Owens was dead
and her husband badly frozen. He will sur
vive.
A special from Pierre, Dakota, SAYS: II Is
reported that a woman ami child were frozen
TO death near Canning. but this Is not vet
confirmed. No trains have np5al ut Pierre
since Thursday. a Mariit pl)ta, special
says that a mail driver wis irD.en between
New Salem and StanlJ4 rle threc-day
on the Northern ratiic was raised
Monday morning. The revised list Of blizzard
shows: Ninctv-seycn in Dakota.
thirteen In Minnesota; six ia Iowa; seventeen
in Nebraska, and two in Montana; total, 1876
besides fifty-tive missing
Mere Wealth Not Wanted.
Epoch; ''Fathcr," She said. burning
her face upon the old mans shoulder. IF
can win the pure, earnest love Of an
honest, upright man, ny life will be full,
indeed ask not for yVpot'b v,,,ld