The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-08
DYING BY THOUSANDS
Mn"y Lives Iss-t tise 1sIato W hssao
urrsts uf Cattle and sseep lDytag
In the suow---Tbe 1.sss
VIII bs F.normoas.

DENVER. tol., Nov. THE R~l.biicon's
special from Clayton. New Mexico. says:
Unless the SHOW storm, which has been
raging for eight days. comes to end
soon, next summer will show "a country
covered with dead bodies of animals as
thickly a. was the old Santa Fe trail in tho
eos. The depth Of snow is now not le-s
than twcnty-six Inches ON the level and i'm
many places the drifts ARE seven feet high.
When the storm struck this section seven
large. herds of cattle. numbering from SOO
to zoo wer.. hs.ing held near this place
awaiting shipment tai eastern markets
TIN. rain of week .gu wctlnes-
day was followed Thursday morning tyy a
blizzard Of SNOW and siect. which
sent the herds In "a -outheriy direction. In
vain did the half-fro<cn cowboys try %
check the march of the hersis, hut on they
went through thc increasing storm until
finding il utterly impossible To- hold the
rattl" TN" boys rosie aside and let
them pass aud nearly dead. rode. their ex-
haIisted horses into canyons or partially
si''lt"r.d places, whers, they passed MANY
hours of misery without fpssi or fire. Two
rowhoy- drift"d into a canyon. W here they
found "a cedar tree. with rats nest i'm is.
They manag.-l Ia light fire with this.
During th. orond might one of their
horses died ~ cold and having nothing
T. eat ,l; me- "a; ,,,i p.., ,s Of III from the
ing there IA hours they started out
in "a weakened condition and managed Il,
reach "a ranch thirty miles away, whers
they cared for. Five cowmen
known to- he frozen to death: Henry
Miller. John Martin. Charles Jolly and
two unknown.
Two Mexican shcepherylers have been
found frozen to death, one near Tram
pcros and another ON "a small creek near
town. Two men coming i'm this morning
report drifts in some. places seven feet
high, in which ar,. hundreds OF dead stock.
many with only their heads and horns
ai,ovc the. snow. In one drift thirteen
| were counted; in another ten. These
were alive, hut unable to move from their
| frigid position.
| Herds of sheep arr. completely wiped out
! OF existence and the range for thirty miles
| from town il covered with their dead
| bodies. Ii ia scstinlatcd that aD.OD sheep
| have I,sri-hrd in this part of tho territory
| and AT present no estimate can be made
| Of the. number Of cattle lost. but the num-
| her will probably b.. in ths. tho,isa ntlrs.
| Every place Of shelter i'm the. town il
! being used as barns for SNOW bound
horses. The hay supply Is nearly ex-
| hatistcd and tss-siay $1D per ton
| was offered 10y stock men and refused
! At Trxaiiuc nine. miles below layton two
| passenger trains have been SNOW bound
for a week. Provisions running out the
! passengers were. compelled tn vs.nture
ont in Ill. storm and Kill cattle. the quart
cr~ of which Were. taken into th. ears and
! roasted. IL il Thought SHOW plows will
| reach III. Imprisoned trains to-morrow
| and RELEASE. them. The storm il by far
the worst known in New Mexico and the
exact loss of iif.. aud property cannot nj
| present bs. estimated.