The San Francisco call., 1896-11-29
LIVES ARE LOST
IN SNOWDR|F Is
Brave Men Perish While
Travelling in the
DakotaS.
Mail Agent Burroughs of the
Great Northern Among Those
to Succumb.
Owing to the Severity of the Storm
Traffic Is Suspended and Cattle
Are Frozen.

ST. PAUL, MINI, Nov. 2s-The great
storm which swept over Minnesota and
the Dakotas Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday has resulted in some loss to human
life and great loss TO livestock. Mail
Agent Burroughs of the Great Northern
was buried fn snowdrift near Devils
Lake. n. d. He was on the westbound
which was stalled ON the Devils Lake
Thursday evening and walked into res
taurant at Devils Lake, obtained as big a
supply of provisions as he could carry and
started back for his trip. He never
reached it.
a searching party has been digging in
the snow for his body all the afterno on.
John Hoey. a farmer living four miles
from Park River, n. D., started from his
house to his barn Thursday night and his
body was found two miles away on the
the prairie this afternoon.
The loss to stock is rather heavy. A
coat of ice covers the ground, and snow is
in some places pied in drifts twelve feet
high. On the ranges ,wesTe9f the Missouri
the wors. is feared iorA St3cs, as it is be-
lieved it will be impossible for cattle and
sheep TO get enough to eat until it thaws
nv tOii pSl ulS - lTOlfl y W ~ OcSIScS
below zero in that section, and below zero
at all points in the Dakotas.
At Vermillion, s. D., there Is hardly a
tree standing and every orchard is ruined.
In many instances trees foot in diameter
were snapped off at the bottom. Every
telegraph and telephone wire in that town
was prostrated and it will have no lights
until next week. To-night's reports from
Moosehead. Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils
Lake and Bismarck say trains are begin
ming to move irregularly again.
The storm in the vicinity of Aberdeen
has not been paralleled since the great
blizzard of January II. 1888. Drifts in the
streets of Aberdeen and on the railroad
tracks and at most South Dakota towns
are five to six feet deep. Railroad traffic
has been entirely abandoned until the
storm abates. Freight trains in Mime
sofa and The Dakotas are stalled and the
Eureka accomm odation is fast at Hills
View. An utter generalization prevails
everywhere.
At Pierre, S. D., travel of all kinds is
completely tied. There have undou btedly
been serious stock losses on the ranges.
II will be several days before anything
definite can be learned from the cattle
country to the west of Pierre.
Huron, s. D., reports the north winds
and the snow IN binding clouds blowing
fifty miles an hour. filing railway cuts
and piling in drifts as high as the house
| tops. Trains were sent south and east
preceded by snowplows and shovelers.
Telegraph wires are Frustrated In every
direction. Heavy losses of cattle on the
ranges will result.
Rain and sIeet prevailed several hours
before the snow set in. The temperature
fell II degrees in twelve hours, resting at
4 below zero, when the worst storm ever
known in the State in eight years set III,
continuing for forty hours.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nov. 28.-This has
been the coldest Novembe day since the
esta blishment of the weather bureau in
this city nine years ago. At o'clock this
morning the mercury stood 4 degrees
above zero.
above by the Weather Bureau, thermome-
tiers in exposed places in the streets regis
tered zero. There has been no heavy
storms, but snow is falling in some parts
of Kansas.
MELATT, S. OAK, Nov. 2S.-The worst
snowstorm and blizzard in this section for
Years commenced Wednesday afternoon.
Trains are blockaded and snow is drifted
fifteen feet high. The wagon roads are
blocked and stock will suffer heavily.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 2S-The
| Postoffice Department has received the
following telegram from the division su-
at st. Paul: "On account of the heavy
| snowstorms train service to the Pacific
Coast and Montana Is at standstill and
telegraph wires are oown, and it will prob
ably be at least forty-eight hours before
regular train service Is resumed"