The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-06-17
A Furious Storm.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Feb. IA ter
rife storm prevailed last night and this
morning. Trains on all railroads are
blockaded and street car traffic is at a
standstill.
Marshalltown. Iowa. Feb. 1.-THE most
violent storm of the season has prevailed
here since midnight, but abated some
what by noon. The mercury dropped 5O
degrees in twelve hours. The snow is
badly drifted, railway traffic being
greatly impeded, and business is practi-
cally suspended to-day.
Ottumwa, Iowa, Feb. THE worst
storm of the season is prevailing. Trains
are practically abandoned. The wind is
blowing a gale and the mercury is now
10 below and still falling.
Lyons. Iowa. Feb. 7.-Seven or eight
inches of snow has fallen and a furious
storm is still raging. The railroads and
the street car lines are badly blocked,
and all trains are several hours late.
Mason City, Iowa, Special. Feb. l.
No trains in any direction to-day, caused
by the intense cold and drifting snow.
Sad Fate, of a Brakeman on the
Canadian Pacific.
Winnipeg, Special. Feb. '7.-Word of
the first casualty, the result of the re-
cent storm, reached the city tonight.
The victim was q brakeman named
Patrick Warde. in the employ of the
Canadian Pacific railroad. and who has
In invalid wife and three children living
in Toronto or Montreal. The express
vx-hsc1 ,nnnhD1 1oro Tn Iov ryoc cyo1,.o1
up at Sidewood, a siding about sixty
miles west of Swift Current. and a relief
train was sent out from the latter place
to its assistance. When about nine
miles out the relief train became stalled,
any n who would go back to Swift
Current with the information. 1t was
bitterly cold, the thermometer registering
over forty deg. below zero, but nOtwith-
standing this poor Warde offered to go,
and set out never to reach town alive.
He had covered eight miles of the dis
lance and was within one mile of the
station when he became completely ex-
hausted and sank to the ground. An
Indian saw him fall and went to his as
sistance, but could not save him.
Opening Up YanktOn Reservation.
Sioux City. Iowa, Feb. 7~.-Sylvester
Walburn of Armour was here yesterday
and explained the present status of the
negotiations for the opening of the Yauk-
ton Indian reservation in Douglas and
Charles Mix counties. South Dakota.
He says that the commissioners have
thus far secured the signatures of 100
of the Indians to the agreement to take
the land in severalty. In addition to this
they have the promise of forty-ive more
Signatures at once. 1t is necessary to
secure 1872 to make the necessary ma
jority of all the Indians who are heads
of families. The total Indian population
of the reservation is 725. Mr.. Walburn
is confident that the reservation will be
opeLed during the present year, or at
least a year from lex spring. He an
ticipates that when the reservation is
thrown open there will be such a boom
OH the occasion of the entrance of the
land seekers as has never been known
outside of Oklahoma. 1t is also expected
that us soon as the reservation is opened
a branch of the. Milwaukee road will be
pushed through either from Yankton or
Armour, probably the former, parallel
with the river and up to Wheeler, or
scme other point in the northern part of
Charles Mix county.