Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-02-12
DEATH In A ST,
Several Lives Lost in the
Western Blizzard.
Other Serious Effects of the
Wave A Cyclone Causes Coz
cradle Damage in Alabama
FROZEN TO DEATH.

OMAHA. NeD., EeD. li.-h
throughout the State show much
life during the storm of Sunday. The
Young wife of Milton Cummings. near
Nashville, froze TO death within 100
yards of the house. The Gna, was
found in a snow-drift after being
twenty-four hours missing. At
Kearney Eddie Chichester and
Steve ST Peter, 14-year-old boys,
were overcome by the cold
while hunting and their bodies We're
found at noon in a ravine At Chadron
NJ. l.. dissent, a pioneer, lost his life
while caring for his stock. Many
others who were out in the storm are
missing and are thought to be dead.
Hundreds of cattle persisted. Railroads
are still blocked. Relief expeditions
have been sent to the destitute counties.
RAPID CITY, 5. d., Feb. 1.-THE
names of the young man and woman
who persisted on Box Elder divide in
Saturdays blizzard were Grant Bay, a
young ranchman, and Meta Gray, a
school-teacher living at Sturgis, Mead
County BAY and Miss Gray left this city
in the height Of the blizzard against the
protests Of friends and it is supposed
their team got away while they were
looking for the road. The country is
sparsely settled, and losing their way
in Saturdays storm meant death. DIR.
Jones and wife, of Hill City, reported
lost, arrived Monday afternoon.
LINCOLN. Neb,. Feb, H. Reports
from the north and western parts of the
State Indicate that the storm of Satur-
day and Sunday was much more severe
than at first supposed stock has suf-
fcred severely, the loss of cattle and
horses in transit being unusually severe.
All the railroad lines have been seri-
ously hampered, the burlington being
probably the most fortunate Trains
on the Union Pacific & Elkhorn are all
the way from four To twenty-four hours
late. General Manager Holdrege of
the Burlington, who is snow-bound at
Alliance, telegraphs that in that section
the snow-stnrn was the most severe in
history, compared to which the memoir
able blizzard Of January, 1SSS, is only a
baby
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb, 1.-THE
coolest blizzard in two years reached
here Sunday night and before midnight
the mercury had fallen forty-four de-
grees. with the wind blowing at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. Monday
it was colder still and the velocity of
the wind has not diminished West of
here in the Del Rio and DEVILS River
country the zero point was reached
and the high wind scattered fiocks and
herds
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Feb 1.-THE
rainfall Monday was the heaviest for
the same length Of time ever known
here over two inches having fallen.
The Fifth ward School-house was sur
rounded by water, the Western & At
lantic railroad crossing covered and
outdoor work was generally suspended
Two streams could plainly be seen
pouring over the precipice near the
point on Lookout mountain. A heavy
rise in the Tennessee river is sure to
follow. but there are no apprehensions
of flood. The rain is still falling.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, Feb IA cy-
clone struck Helena Monday afternoon
about o'clock, A dull, roaring sound
was heard and the people had only time
to get to their doors when they saw a
black, whirling cloud skim over the
top of the hotel in the northern part
of the village 1t next encountered
the telegraph poles, twisting them off
like pipc-stems. Coming down the
railroad track it laid the station-house
fiat on the platform and leveled the
store of Thomas Davidson. G. r. and
James Davidson were in the store and
both were hurt about the head and p.
ID. Lee was bruised about the body. The
cyclone then lifted and passing over
three-story building struck the Helena
rolling-mill, about 200 yards from the
station, taking the roof off both the
mill and stoclter case. The cloud passed
on in a southeasterly direction and "a
report has reached here that it struck
Talladega in its circuit
SYRACUSE, n. y, Feb. IA passen-
ger. fairly well dressed and about IS
years Of age, was blown by the heavy
winds from West Shore train near
Jordan in Onondaga County Monday
afternoon He was brought to SYRIA
cuse and taken to the hospital, where
he died about midnight On his person
was card bearing the name Louis
Weinman.