The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1894-02-15
DEATH IN THE BIG STORM.
Five Victims of the In
tense Cold in Oklahoma.
A Pnnr Settler, Driven Mad By His
Wit.'~ Death anu the Suffrrings OF
His Five Children, Ends Their
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Guthrie, o., = 3. l3.-The great
blizzard which swept over Oklahoma
Sun lay bl ought "eash IN its wake,
the poo. peop!e. -spe eclaiIy those who
had setl Ell iu the Chez okee Strip
September 1t, b nng but poorly pre-
pared Or cod weather.
Reports so far received here show
tn. At lest twenty five perished
dning the great storm. There are
many rumors of other fatalities but
nothing definite can be obtained. II
here have not been mauy victims in
isolated sections of the territory, it
will be miracle
Near Cross, yesterday, the bodies
of Sherman Stone, homesteader,
aud his wife and five children were
found about stove in which there
Was no fire, all with their throats
cut A uote Oh a table read: "Wood
all gone; Mollie frozen to death; the
rest of us freezing. I have killed
my family aud now kill myself to
prevent further suffering. God have
mercy on u.s.
Twelve miles from there, widow
was found dead in her cabin
Near Red Rock, James Blount
and his wife and two young daught
els were found nearly dead. At
/. ast two of them will die.
Near Ponca, Mrs. Jennie Cramer
and her two children, Lizzie and
Sallis, were found frozen stiff in q
coyotes burrow.
TIE DEATH LIST INCREASED.
Three Indian children lost their
way IN the heavily falling snow near
Anadarko. Sunday, aud were dead
when rescuers found them.
! Four miles south Of Perry, James
Mulligan, = hoDestead-r. WAS found
frozen to death last evening, while
Harry Newcome, his partner, died
~onn after he was discovered.
Colonel Henry Mellon, one Of
Buffalo Bills Worlds fair cowboys
was found dead under his horse
near Newkirk yesterday
Near Woodward the family o.
Homesteader Sears-fve in all
were found frozen in their dugout
Miss Jennie johnson, a young
| Indian teacher. who went to Alva re
; Gently from Scranton, Pa, left heI
school Saturday night for her board
, ING house. She has not been seer
| since. It is feared she was caugh
the blizzard and died from ex
-. posure.
> An unknown man was found nea
; the Ponca Indian agency frozen t.
death under his house. and south o
/, Cleveland in county Z, a family o
, three perished. Two Tonkawa In
D dians are reported found dead IN
hut.
r Scores Of cattle and horses perish
: ed in the strip, and in the big past
l ures in the Usage and Kiowa resrvs
: ton, the number of dead cattle Wi
reach thousands. The temperatur
did not reach as low as on Januar
%, but the wind and sleet were s
bad that people caught out coul
make no resistance.
II IL Wichita, Kas., Feb. 12.-Th
, worst snow blizzard that this Sc,
n ton of Kansas has experienced i
: many years, commenced yesterda
e e morning and bv night it was l
% inches deep. All trains with the e,
o ception of Rock Island have bee
lc abandoned.
+ Fort Smith, Ark, Feb. 12,-Heay
r. rains have fallen here during IL
If past week and the Arkansas an
n Poteau Rivers are both very hig
a a and rising. 1t has been rainin
s - all day and many OF the water cour
E. ss throughout the country are out I
their banks. Railroads both mort
and south of here are likely to suffe
Assumption. Ill, Feb. 12-Tl
worst blizzard Of the season bee
raging throughout this section
the state all day. Snow has fall,
to the depth of six inches and
drifting badly. Stock exposed
the storm will suffer greatly.
Galesburg, III. Feb PA teri
bic blizzaad is raging here th
morning. A foot of snow. wi
wind blowing at the rate of thir
miles an hour, has stopped the ele
tric cars and held railroad trail
back for hours. The temperate
has fallen thirty degrees in the Il
Itwenty-four hours.