The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-29
DEATH IN THE SNOWDRIFTS.
MEN AND CATTLE PERISH IN THE
GREAT STORM.

A Mail Agent Loses His Life While
Returning to His Train With Food.
John HOey Blown Two Miles by
the blizzard and Buried in n
Grave of SnOw-ScOres of Trains
Tied Up.
st. Paul. Minn., Nov. 2S.-The great
storm which swept over Minnesota and the
Dakotas on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday has resulted in some loss of human
life and great loss to live stock. Mail
Agent Borroughs Of the Great Northern
road is buried in a snow-drift near DEVILS
Lake, N. d. He was on the west bound
train, which was stalled out of Devil S
Lake Thursday evening and walked to a
restaurant at Devils Lake, obtaining as
big supply of provisions as he could
carry and started back for his train. He
never reached it. A searching party has
been digging in the snow for his body all
the afternoon.
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
prairie this afternoon.
The loss to stock aggregates hundreds.
A coating of ice covers the ground and
snow Is in some places piled in drifts u
feet high. On the ranges west of the
Missouri the worst is feared for stock, as
it is believed it would be impossible for
cattle and sheep to get enough to eat until
it thaws. The temperature is from to
20 degrees below zero in that section and
below zero at all points in the Dakotas.
At Yermlllon, 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.
Every telegraph and electric wire in that
town was Frustrated and 1t will have no
lights until next week
To-nights reports from Moorehead,
Fargo Grand Forks Devils Lake, and
| Bismarck, say trains are beginning to
move irregularly again.
| AT Aberdeen the storm has not been
| paralleled since the great blizzard of Jan.
12, 1885, Drifts in the streets and on the
| railroad tracks there and most South Da-
kota towns are from five to six feet deep.
Railroading has been entirely abandoned
until the storm breaks.
Freight trains on the Hastings and Da-
kota are in drifts, near Bath station, and
| the Eureka accommodation is fast at
| Hills View. An utterly demoralized con-
dition prevails everywhere.
Pierre, S. D., reports travel of all kinds
| completely tied up. While no reports have
| come in from the country, there have
1 undoubtedly 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.
AT Huron the snow is piling in drifts as
high as the fence tops. Trains were sent
south and east to-day, preceded by snow
plows and shovelers. Telegraph wires
! are prostrated 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 u degrees
| resting at degrees below zero, when the
worst storm ever known in the state i'm
eight years set in, continuing for forty
| hours
At Mellette, S. d., trains are blocked,
and snow drifts in the main streets are
! fifteen feet deep. The wagon roads are
blocked, and stock will suffer greatly.
Jackson, Miss, Nov. 2S.-The weather
here tonight is about forty degrees colder
| than twenty-four hours ago. and is getting
worse. A freeze Is confidently predicted
for tonight, the first OF the season. Yes
| terday everybody was walking around in
| their shirt sleeves. To-day they are
wrapped in overcoats and fires are kindled
/ in business houses.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 2S.-This was
the coolest day in any November since
the establishment of the weather bureau
in this city nine years ago. At a. m. the
mercury stood only degrees above zero.
The next lowest record for the month is
| p degrees. While the temperature was
down TO only degrees above zero, by the
weather bureau thermometer, instruments
in exposed places on the streets registered
zero. There was just enough bright sun
| shine to-day to deceive the Oldest settler
Throughout Kansas and most of Mis-
souri, frigid weather is reported. There
/ has been no general storm, but snow has
fallen in some parts of Kansas.