Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-11
PROBABLY TWENTY MEN PERISHED.


1t is showing again to-day along the
line of the A., T. & S. +. east of Glorieta
mountains and all trains are delayed from
four to six hours. On Saturday it stormed
all day in southwestern Kansas, eastern
Colorado and across the corner OF north
western New Mexico. The dispatches
are very glib in using the expression
terrible suffering in New Mexico"
which is misleading. New Mexico is
an empire and only seycnty-fyc mile
strip OF it, where it joins Colorado and
Texas, is in the blizzard belt. The north
west winds strike the Colorado mountains
and carom off toward theplains OF eastern
Colorado and Kansas and thence Strike
the panhandle, which includes the Red
river region of New Mexico.
In the strip of New Mexico territory
referred to suffering has been intense,
and the stories of suffering to man and
beast now coming in are awful. 1t has
been stormy off and on between Springer,
Trinidad and Clayton for ten days. Fiji
ers have been lost.
The bodies of John Martin and Henry
Miller, the cowboys who were frozen to
death near Clayton last week during the
blizzard, were taken to Folsom for burial.
Their two companions, Charles Wier and
Henry Jolly, were taken to Ration for
medical treatment Jolly will lose all of
his fingers, but otherwise will not suffer
greatly. Weir will lose all of his fingers
and his foot is terribly frozen. Foreman
Foster, of Dorsey's ranch, 0. w. Nc
! QUESTION, prominent citizen of Ration,
who was with him, Chas. Raud, q man
named Yeager and two Mexicans are
missing, and rescuing parties have been
sent to trace them. They were holding
1000 head of beef cattle not over $50
Yards from camp when the blizzard
struck them and drove the herd south.
The snow is drifted ten feet high in
places between Springer and Clayton.
Many of the beef steers went before the
storm over a pricipice seventy-hVe feet
high and were dashed to death, Others
were stuck in snow drifts, only their
heads being above the snow, and died
there. In that locality thousands Of
sheep have died, and focks are snow
bound without herders, the men in
charge supposed to have persisted.
From the neighborhood of Clayton comes
intelligence of the severity of the weather
and the impossiblity OF holding shipping
herds. There were several large
punches of beef cattle in that
country, gathering for shipment; over O.
600 of Dorsey's, 600 of the Palo Blanco
company, a large bunch OF Richard Heads,
Temple Brothers, and others from further
south, all OF which were scattered, nobody
knows where. On the level snow covers
the ground to depth of two feet or more.
A few days of fair weather scarcely made
an impression on the snow and the heavy
storms of Saturday and to-day are only
expected to add fresh terrors to the situa-
ton in that locality.
That Little Tickling
In your throat, which makes you cough
once in q while and keeps you constantly
clearing your throat, arises from catarrh,
and as catarrh is constitutional disease
the ordinary cough medicines all fail to
hit the spot. What you need is a consti-
tutional remedy like Hoods Sarsaparila.
Many people who have taken this medi-
cine for scrofula, dyspepsia, loss of appe-
tite and other troubles, have been sur
prised that it should cure this troublesome
cough. But to know the actual cause Of
the cough is to solve the mystery. Many
cases of consumption can be traced back
to the neglect of some such slight affection
as this. Consumption can be controlled
in its early stages, and the effect of Hoods
Sarsaparilla in purifying the blood, build
ing up the general health and expelling
the scrofulous faint which is the cause of
catarrh and consumption, has restored to
perfect health many persons on whom
this dreaded disease seemed to have firm
hold.