Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-02-12
FATAL BLIZZARD.
Many Unfortunate Persons Caught
in the Storm.
NEBRASKA REPORTS SEVERAL DEATHS
ReYsons Also Frozen in South Dakota
Muoh Stock SufTeFs-Railway Trains
BtaIIOd-velOcIty Of the wInd-The
Weather Moderates.

weather mcoerACess
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 1O.-The storm
ceased all over Nebraska and was sue
ceeded by severe cold. At z o'clock
yesterday morning 1t was five degrees
below zero, but now it is moderating.
Railroad trains are still considerably
behind time, but the tracks are being
rapidly cleared Reports from the
frontier counties predict that there will
be much suffering and many cattle Will
perish.
Special dispatches show that num-
Der of lives were lost in Nebraska dur
ing the blizzard The wife Of Milton
Cummings, a farmer near Rushville,
who started for her home Saturday,
was found dead in her buggy within
forty rods Of a neighbor's house.
Eddie Chichester and Steven St Pc
ters, fourteen-year-old Kearney boys
who had been out hunting, were found
frozen TO death in a corn field.
N. L. Lissent, residing three miles
north of Chadron, is supposed to be
buried under the snow and searching
parties are looking for his body.
At Chadron, a prominent citizen, NJ.
L Sissent, per,shed while en- route TO
his stable few yards distant and his
body was not found until late yesterday
evening.
Mrs. Milton Cummings, the wife Of
prominent young farmer near Chadron,
died In q snow drift near her house.
She is supposed to have lost her way in
the binding snow while en- route to the
low stable.
In the isolated districts the loss Of
life is expected to be heavy.
Late reports from the northern and
the western parts of the State indicate
that the storm was much more severe
than at first supposed. Stock has suf-
fered greatly, the loss of cattle and
horses In transit being unusually Sc
vere. All railroad lines have been
seriously hampered, the Burlington
being probably the most fortunate.
Trains on the Union Pacific and Elk
horn were from two to four hours late.
General Manager Holdridge Of the Bur
Ifn9ton, who is snow bound near Alli-
ance, Neb., telegraphs that in that
section the storm was the most severe
since the blizzard OF January, 1855.
LIVES LOST IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 10.-The bliZ-
sard at Rapid City, S. D., wore itself
out during last night, and with the ar
rival of rsnchers and stages from out
laying points reports of severity and
casualties are coming in. On Box Elder
divide, Grant Ray, a young ranchman,
and Meta NJ. Gray, school teacher,
living ut Sturgis, Mead County, were
found frozen Reports are still con-
HIcting. one version being that the
bodies were found frozen stiff by cow
boys, the other that the parties are still
alive but terribly frozen DIR. Jones
and wife, of Hill City, reported lost,
have arrived in the city.
Few people ventured abroad Satur
day and Sunday and the two bodiei
found are probably the only deaths
No loss Of stock yet reported.
Reports from various parts of South
Dakota indicate that the severest por
ton Of the storm was in the Jim rive
valley. Huron being nearly the center
Little snow fell at Aberdeen and points
In the north part of the State anC
only tenth of an inch at Sully. Th'
wind attained a velocity of fifty mile
an hour and the thermometer thi
morning was IA degrees below zero
The storm prevailed from midnight Sat
Srday until 2:3O this morning, and wa
the most severe experience about Hurol
$or several years. The snow is badl!
drifted and railroad cuts are packet
full. Trains from the north and ives
arrived on the Northwestern nearly ol
time, and those from the east and soutl
will reach Huron to-day.
The most terrific blizzard that Yer
million, S. D., has experienced in thre
years ragged Sunday and Sunday nigh
from the Northwest. Nearly foot o
snow fell and 1t was blown into larg
drifts.
The hardest blizzard since January
1888, prevailed at Woonsocket, S. D.
from Saturday night until Monday
Travelling was almost impossible. n
casualties are yet reported Stock tha
was out has doubtless perished.