St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-12
ONE Of THE DAKOTA KIND.
The New Mexican Blizzard the
Worst Ever Experienced.

hO INCW HtCAtCdu o{tALaEu thO
Worst Ever Experienced.
TRINIDAD, Col, Nov. li.-Various
parties who spent ten days in the snow
blockade between Emery Gay and Fol-
som, N. NJ. arrived in this city to-day.
They report the suffering to man
and animal fully as great as shown
in former reports Patrick Casey, eng
ineer, spent eleven days in making the
run from Trinidad to LeXIine and return.
For two days and nights he was without
food. One meal he made on jack rab-
bit caught i'm the snow. Seventy-five
men shoveling snow at Mt. Dora
were cut off from food for two days
and nights. They got some sheep
out of the snow drifts and roasted and
ate them. A delayed passenger train
was cut off from the eating stations
three days. They drew OH the express
company for food supplies. The labor
erS who shOveled snow. when hungry,
tapped the freight cars containing
canned goods with an iron chisel or
other tools. 4 hungry man would knock
hole in a can OF corn OF tomatoes. and
then drink the can empty. Some times
this food was frozen. but 1t went among
men so hungry. Two live goats were
being shipped in caboOse, but TIE hum
cry men cut their thr0ats and ate them
man travelling with two chill
dren lay on his back two days
helpless. He had only crackers for
nOurishment. A sheep grower near
U te creek. MIR. Garcia. is reported to
have lost 5000 sheep from flock of
5000. Engineer Lyon says that he has
saw more real deStitutiOn during ten
days in this snow blockade than In all
his life before. The road was
opened with rotary snow plows,
but remained open only q few hours.
This mornings snow and wind blocked
the cuts again. and the passenger train
due here from the south this forenoon
is stuck in the SHOW tonight. Alto
gether the blizzard has been bad one.
No one ever saw or heard of such a one
in Southern Colorado or New Mexico.
1t was Dakota storm that got off its
range and struck an unsuspecting peo-
pie. President Morgan Jones. of the
Fort Worth road, was himself a passen-
ger from the scene of the blockade to-
uignt.
FROZEN ON THE RANGE.
CLAYTON, N. NJ, Nov. H. Tiding 8
from small towns. and ranches off the
railroad confirm the reported loss OF life
and property during the late storm.
From TramperaS comes the news that
three Mexican herders, George Pinard
and two companions, perished OH the
second day OF the storm. Lujan Bros.
living on The Seneca, lost one herder.
A man, name unknown. herding horses
in the Rafel district, and two other men.
left their horses and started for a place
of shelter. Becoming numb, he fell and
hEriShnd His
much exhausted to help him. The
total loss of life. so far as
reported, numbers nine souls. Sew
eral more are missing, and their
friends are anxiously searching for
them. The loss of sheep in and around
this place alone is 26.0O0 head. serveral
large herds on the Ute creek not yet are
heard Fl . The loss in cat tie will
not be as heavy as at first
supposed unless the cold weather
continues. Snow began falling again
at noon to-day aud continues
to fall tonight. About eight inches of
new snow on top OF the twenty inches
already on the ground, makes it impos-
sible for railroad folks to keep the track
clear. They succeeded in getting trains
through yesterday, but are all showed
up again tonight. and the cold is in
tense, being almost down to zero.
KANSAS SWEPT BY A BLIZZARD.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Nov. ll.-Dis-
patches from Southern and Western
Kansas state that a blizzard is sweeping
over that country. The wind turned to
the north early in the evening and
brought with it snow, which. in
some localities, is drifting badly.
At Arkansas City, near the
Indian Terry line. regular "norther"
Is reported. At Wichita the snow is fly
ing and Syracuse the blizzard is at its
height. Abilene, In the center of the
state, reports severe wind and thick
snow. No hindrance to railway travel
has been reported as yet.