The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-11-14
Frozen to Death.


DENVER, Col, November 4.-One Of
the results OF the terrible bizzards which
swept over Eastern Colorado and North
ern New Mexico Thursday and Friday of
last week reached here to-day from Fol.
som, New Mexico. Thursday night
Henry Miller, the range foreman fJr Col.
R. G. Head, with several cowboys, camp.
ed near Sierra Grande with 1900 beef
cattle, which they were holding for the
purpose of loading in cars. At 4 o'clock
that morning blizzard from the North.
west struck the herd, driving the cattle
toward Pan Handle, Texas, the cowboys
being unable to hold them. The snow
was 30 binding that it made it impossible
to see Gfty feet ahead. Miller called bis
men together, and they started to follow
the herd, and made an attempt to keep
them punched as far as possible.
The men became separated. Friday
night one of them wandered into Heads
Home Ranch half dead with cold and
hunger. He told his story and rescuing
party was Immediately sent out, and at
noon the frozen bodies Of Henry Miller,
Joe Martin and Charlie jolly were found
lying on the open plains not far from
Folsom. The other men succeeded in
finding their way to camp before being
overcome with cold. Miller had been
foreman for Colonel Head for twelve
wears, aud came here from Louisiana. 1t
is not known where Martin and Jolly
were from.
DENVER, Col, Nov. S.-The RepugH.
cans special from Dayton, n. NJ, Gays:
Unless the snow storm which has been
raging for eight days comes to an end
soon, next GUNNER will show the country
covered with dead bodies Of animals as
thickly as was the old Santa Fe trail in
the sixties. The depth of the snow is
not less than twenty.six inches on level,
aud in many places it has drifted seven
feet high. When the storm struck this
section seven large herds of cattle, mum.
bering from 400 to 1000, we're being held
near this place, awaiting shipment to
Eastern markets. The rain of week ago
was followed Thursday morning by biz.
yards of snow and sleet which sent the
herds in Southerly direction. In vain
did the already half frozen cowboys try
to check the march of the herds, but on
they went, through the increasing storm,
until, finding it utterly impossible to hold
the cattle, the cowboys rode aside and let
them pass, and when nearly dead rode
the exhausted horses into canyons or par.
TALLY sheltered places, where they passed
many hours of misery, without food or
fire.
Two cowboys drifted into canyon,
where they found a cedar tree with rats
nest in it. They managed to light fire
with this. During the second night one
of their horses died from cold, and, hav
ing nothing to eat, the men cut pieces of
flesh from the dead animal, which they
warmed and ate without salt. After be-
ing here over sixty hours, they started
out, and after much suffering and hard.
ships from their weakened condition,
managed to reach ranch thirty miles
away, where they were cared for.
Five cowmen are known to be frozen to
death. Two Mexican sheep herders have
been found frozen to death. Two men
coming in this morning report drifts in
some places seven and eight fest high, in
which there are hundreds of dead stock,
many with horns and heads above the
snow. In one drift thirteen were counted
and in another ten. Some of these we're
alive, but unable to move from their
frigid prison.
Herds of sheep are completely wiped
out of existence, and the range for thirty
miles from town is covtred with dead
carcasses. It is estimated that 10000
sheep have perisbed in this part of the
territory. The hay supply is nearly ex-
hausted, and to day $500 per ton was of
fered by stockmen.
At Texline,. ten miles below Clayton,
two passenger trains have been snowboud
for g. week. Provisions are running out
and passengers are compelled to venture
out in the storm aud kill cattle, quarters
of which are taken into the cars and
roasted for food. It is thought snow
plow will reach the imprisoned trains to.
morrow and release them, and that the
road will be opened in day or two.
The storm is by far the worst ever
known in New Mexico, aud the exact loss
of life and property cannot at present be
estimated.
CLARENDON, TEXAS, Nov. 9.-The
deepest SNOW that has fallen here in
twelve years is on the ground now. It is
six inches deep. All trains on the Fort
Worth and Denver are blockaded north
of here, and there are eigh hit engines in
snow drifts 75 miles northwest of this
place. The drifts are nine feet deep.
This is the worst snow storm that has ever
visited the Pan Handle.
KANSAS City, Mo, Nov. 9.-Dis.
patches from Southern and Western
Kansas give details of the 6erce snow
storm that ragged there yesterday. Snow,
hail and sleet fell thick and was driven
SO 6ercely by the wind that in many
places the people did not even dare to
venture out of doors. Trains are some
what delayed, though none have been
abandoned.