Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-29
LOST IN THE DEEP SHOWS
Many Men Dead or Missing and Loss of
Live Stock Great
BLIZZARD IN THE NORTHWESTERN STATES
Trains Are nIoclNcd aud wires Ave
Blown nown ia All Directions by
thr worst November storm
in Many Years,

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have been frozen to death, cattle have been
stampcdei and buried and smothcrcd in
snow drifts. trains are DELAYED. wires are
down and the November storm record Is
broken by tie Blizzard that holds the north.
west loccd in its chilly grasp How many
human lives have been sacrificed cannot be
told until The SLOW drifts clear away, months
hence. Men are missing everywhere in tho
heart of the storm. Some are known to be
dead and many are missing, with the chances
very much against them being alive. Those
dead and missing are:
THOMAS ANDERSON, is years old lost
in the snow near Moorehead, MINI.
f. Nj BURROWS mail agent, lost in the
storm at Devils Lake, n. d.
FRANK NACK of Chicago. frozen to death,
near Fargo, y. ID.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED MEN, found frozen
Three missing men lost in the snow near
Fargo.
From the cattle country in the western part
of North Dakota come reports of intense Suf-
fering of the live stock on the ranges but
no definite information can be secured, as the
wires are down. Watson Hall, a cattlCman,
says the losses will be extremely heavy.
South Dakota is suffering too. At Pierre,
over eight inches of snow fell in the storm
tanned an average velocity of twenty eight
miles an hour. Wires were down NEST of
the time, and trains and street cars tied up.
The first train to move went out about noon
today, with snow pow. Cattle on the
prairie driftcd badly and losses are being
reported 1t was TIE worst storm for years,
Some of the transcontinentai railroads
Cen erng at st. Paul. resumed their through
service today The wind having abated.
they were able to send out rotarics and snow
.lF.tNH 4
they would be able to send through traffic
along In good shape, provided no serious
damage had been sustained by their tracks
Wires are still in bad shape and it is inn
possible to get definite reports regarding
conditions in certain sections, but the rail
way companies set large bodies of compe-
tent men to work and made rapid progress
From all rel Orts received there seems to
be nothing to contend with except immense
snow banks, which. however the rotaries
can easily remove. From latest reports, it
is safe to predict that by tomorrow every
thing will be moving pretty we'll, though
not on schedule.
An Aberdeen, S. D., special says The
present storm has not been paralleed
since the great blizzard of January
|, 1889. Drifts in the streets and in
the railroad tracks are five ana SIX feet deep
Railroadng has been entirely abandoned
until the storm breaks. \ freight train on
the Hastings e Dakota Is In the terrific
commodattOn Is fast at Falls View. \ de-
moralized condition everywhere prevails
The loss 10 stock, it is feared, will be great
Dispatch special from Mcllette, $. d..
rSays: The worst storm and blizzard through
this section for years commenced Wednes-
day. The trains are blocked and snowdrifts
in the main street are fifteen feet deep.
The wagon roads are blocked, and stock will
suffer greatly
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2S.-The traffic block
ade by the storms in the northwest Is re-
ported to the PostoIlce department In the
following dispatch from the division superin-
tendent of the railway mail service at st.
Paul:
"On account of the heavy blockading snow
storm, train service on the Northern Pacidc
and Great Northern lines in North Dakota
and Montana is at a standstill and telegraph
wires are down. II probably will be at
least forty-eight hours before regular train
service is resumed"
Another official dispatch late this after
noon says the principal trouble is now in
North Dakota. No through eastbound trains
either on the Northern Pacific or Great
Northern, have reached st. Paul since
Wednesday and the latest wcstbuund trains
OF each which got through reached St Paul
"Wednesday Subsequent through trairs the
dispatch says, are now snowbOund in North
Dakota.
HELENA, Mont. Nov. 2S-Last night
was the coolest November night in Helena
in the recollection of the Oldest pioneer
thermometers registered at the coldest
nour from - TO 80 below. All day yester-
day the mercury did not get above 10 be-
low low anu at ~ laSt evening was ~ below
. rnoii 'l4t 'lllle tlil d. III, II sraauaIly
IIc" coiue'' LGdcuihs ti'e lowest point at
t o,,t' ss - .is rs wy 70 asaln PrdcClCaIIy
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III III tne 'MyLIS years tA'stenGe oi the Ciah
WeA'ner bureau Al o clOch Inis morning
me thermometer registered halI degree
peIoW zero.
MOOREHEAD Mimi, Nov. 2S.-Thomas
anderson aged Is, was lost in the blizzard
Thursday night Searching parties were
out all night ana today, but no trace of
the BODY could be found. The snow has
driIted so badly since then that the task
Is almost impossible.
DEVILS LAKE, n. d., Nov. 2S-Thc
blizzard was very severe mere The pas
ON The siding since TbonEsgiving Hbaut