The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-02-13
AN EXTENSIVE STORM
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Kansas. tied up by the storm The west
pound Colorado trains were snowbound at
Newton, while the trains on the Chicago
delayed.
E;mporia. Kan, reports the worst storm
ever known there. No less than two feet
of snow fell and it drifted in places to
twenty feet Railroad traffic was stopped.
thousands OF head Of cattle are endangered
and q great portion of them will die OF
cold and lack OF food. Wheat raisers see
a gleam of hope in the fact that the snow
A dispatch from Guthrie, o. T., says that
last night the thermometer registered six
degrees below. This morning a thaw set
La, but at 4 O'Clock this afternoon another
cold wave SwoOped down on the Territory,
sending the mercury down to the zero mark
again The suffering throughout oklahoma
and the Indian Territory must be great.
Nothing can be learned owing 10 the Sc
we're weather and the conditions of the
roads. The trains due at Guthrie on Sun
day nave not yet arrived. Three are snow
bound between Red Rock and Cross, just
forty miles north of there. and as the coun-
try is not we'll watered or timbered, 10 say
nothing Of provisions. the passengers are
certainly in n precarious condition.
Late reports from the Cherokee Strip tell
of great suffering. At Red Rock James
Blount and family, consisting of a wife and
two children, girls aged ten and twelve
years. were almost frozen 10 death. Mrs.
Fannie Spencer. a homesteader, twelve miles
from Cross, was found frozen stiff. All her
fuel had burned out. Many people are sIll
living In tents, and as fuel is scarce their
condition is awful. James Mulligan. living
four miles south Of Perry, was found this
evening frozen to death, and his partner;
Harvey Newcomb, died from exposure and
cold fifteen minutes after being found. I
POnca Mrs. Jennie Cramer and two chill
dren, Lizzie and Sallie, were discovered
frozen stiff in a coyotes burrow, ten yards
from their abode. Col. Henry Melton, a
cowboy. who was with Buffalo Bill at the
worlds fair, was discovered by a party of
hunters early this morning dead under his
horse, near Newkirk. At Anadarko two In
dian pupils were found yesterday evening
buried under a snow bank Upon being
taken to a house one of the children imme-
diately expired.
Late TINS evening a report reached here
that a family named Sears, residing on a
claim near Woodward, was found frozen
to death, but no particulars can be OBJ
tanned. a courier just in from the vicinity
OF Alva. another strip town, reports great
suffering among the homesteaders near
there. over one hundred head of horses
and cattle are frozen, and volunteer relief
gathering together the people and caring
for them in the school house.
Miss Jennie Johnson. a young Indian
teacher who came to Alva recently from
Scranton, Pa, left her school Saturday
night for her boarding house. She has not
caught in the blizzard and died from ex-
posture. No reports have been received from
other West-side towns. but it is certain
people are living mostly in tents. All trains
are delayed.
Word comes from Cross that Sherman
Stone and family, consisting OF a wife and
five children. were found sitting about a
stove with their threats cut from ear to
ear. The following note found on a table
near By Stone gives a horrible story Of
murder and suicide in connection with the
storm: Wood all gone; Mollie frozen to
death, the rest of us freezing. / have
killed my family and now kill myself to
prevent further suffering. God have mercy
on u.s." Stone was a hOmesteader and
lived in a tent. 1t is. thou,nt that after
the snow melts hundreds of dead settlers
viii be found, along with the remains Of
thousands of cattle.