Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-11-29
LOSS OF HUMAN LIFE.
GREAT LOSS OF LIVE STOCK IN
TIE NORTHWEST.
TIE BLIZZARD OF LAST WEEK.
Snow In Some Places Piled In Drifts
Twelve Feet High-Rnflroao1hS
Largely Abnndoncd-The WORST
Storm in Years.

ST. PAUL MINI. November 2S.-The
great storm which swept over Minnesota
and the Dakotas on Wednesday, Thurs
day, and Friday has resulted in some
loss OF human life and great loss OF hVe
stock. Mail-Agent Burroughs, OF the
Great Northern road, Is buried in snow
drift near Devils Lake, n. ID. He was
on the west-bound train which was stalled
out on Devils Lake Thursday evening
and. walking to a restaurant at Devifs
Lake. obtained as big a supply OF pro-
visions as he could carry, and started
back for his train. He never reached H.
a searching party has been digging IN
the snow for his body all the afternoon.
John Hooey, 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 prairie this afternoon.
The loss of stock aggregates hundreds
The snow is in some placed piled in drisJ
i feet high. on the ranges west of the
Missouri the worst IS feared for stock,
as il is believed it would be impossible
for cattle and sheep TO get enough TO eat
until II thaws. The temperature is from
o to 20 degrees below zero In that section,
and below at all points in the Dakotas.
At Vermillion, s. D.. there is hardly a
tree standing, and every orchard is ruin
ed. In many instances trees a foot IN
diameter were snapped off at the bottom.
The telegraph and eiectric-lght wires in
that town were Frustrated, and 1t VIII
have no lights until next week. TO-nighrs
4 4
Forks. Devils Lake, and Bismarck say
trains are beginning to move irregularly
again.
UNPARALLELED SINCE 1883.
At Aberdeen the storm has not been
paralleled since the great blizzard of
January y, 1883. Drifts in the streets
and on the railroad tracks there and at
most South Dakota towns are from 70
feet deep. Railroading has been entirely
abandoned until the storm breaks. Freight
trains on the Hastings and Dakota road
are I'm drifts near Bath Station, and the
Eureka accommodation is fast at HITS
View. An utterly demoraliZed condition
prevails everywhere. Pierre. $. D.. re-
ports travel Of all kinds completely tied
up.
While no reports have come in from
the country. there have undoubtedly been
serious stOch iO''c7 OIi lhc idhSSS' IL
will be several days before anything deh-
mite can be learned from the cattle coun-
try 70 the westward.
At Huron the snow Is piling In drifts
as high as fence-tOps. Trains were sent
south and east to-day, preceded by snow
ploughs and shoyellers. Telegraph wires
are Frustrated IN every direction. Fuel is
scarce in remote districts, and suffering
Is feared. Heavy losses Of cattle on the
ranges will result Rain and sleet pre-
vailed several hours before the snow set
in. Then the temperature fell y degrees,
resting at below zero when the worst
storm known in the State in eight years
set in, continuing for forty hours.
At Melette. S. D., trains are blocked,
and suow-drifts IN the main streets are
II feet deep The wagon roads are block
ed. and stock will suffer greatly.