The record-union., 1896-11-29
Results In Much Loss Of Human Life
and Great Loss to Live Stock.
Two Men Perish During the Blizzard
in North Dakota.
The Thermometer in Wyoming, Colo
RADIO and Idaho Many Degrees Be-
low Zero-Kansas City Experiences
the Coolest November Day Since
the Establishment of the Weather
Bureau, Nine Years Ago.

Bureau, Nine Years Ago.
ST. PAUL, Nov 2S.-The great storm
which swept over Minnesota and the
| DakOtas on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday has resulted in some loss of hu-
man life and great loss to livestock.
Mail Agent Burrough 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 Devils Lake Thursday
evening and walked into restaurant
at Devils Lake obtained as big a sup
| ply 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 Horn, a farmer liv-
| ing 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 is rather heavy. A
| coat Of ice covers the ground, and the
snow is in some places piled in drifts
| twelve feet high. On the ranges west
| of the Missouri the worst is feared for
stock, as it is impossible for cattle and
sheep to get enough to eat until it
thaws. The temperature is from D to
! 20 degrees below zero in that section,
and below zero at all points in the Da-
kotas.
| AT Vermillion, S. D., there is hardly
a tree standing, and every orchard is
ruined. In many instances trees
| foot in diameter We're snapped off at
the bottom. Every telegraph and elec-
| trio wire in that town was prOstra ted
| and it will have no lights until next
week
To-night's reports from Moorhead,
Fargo, Grand Forks, Devils Lake and
Bismarck say the trains are beginning
to move irregularly again.
| The storm in the vicinity of Aber-
deem has not been paralleled since the
blizzard of 1888. Drifts in the streets
of Aberdeen and on the railroad tracks
and in the towns are from five to fif-
teen feet deep. Railroads have been
entirely abandoned until the storm
breaks Freight trains on the Hastings
and Dakota are in a drift near Bath,
and an accommodation is fast at Hills
lew. All ulIcIIy ~
walls everywhere.
| At Pierre S. D., travel of all kinds
| is completely tied up. There have been
serious stock losses on the ranges. Il
will be several days before anything
definite can be learned from the cattle
| country to the west of Pierre.
Huron, S. D., reports north winds
and snow in binding clouds blowing
| fifty miles per hour, filling railway cuts
and pilng in drifts as high as fence
tops. Trains were sent south and east,
preceded by snowplows and shovelers.
Telegraph wires are Frustrated in every
direction. Heavy loss of cattle on the
ranges will result. The temperature
fell II degrees. resting at below zero,
when the worst storm known in the
State in eight years set in, continuing
| for forty-eight hours.
MANY PEOPLE MISSING.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 2S-Men are missing
everywhere in the heart of the storm.
Some are known to be dead and many
are missing, with the chances very
much against their being alive. Those
dead and missing are: Thomas Ander-
son, IS years old, lost in the snow near
Moorhead, Minn., body not recovered;
F. NJ. Burrows, mail agent, lost in the
storm at Devils Lake. N. D.. body not
found; Frank Vack of Chicago, frozen
to death near Fargo, n. D., body recov-
ered two unidentified men frozen to
death near Fargo: three missing men
lost in the snow near Fargo, bodies not
found.
From North Dakota comes the worst
tales of suffering and death. Frank
Vack, Bohemian of Chicago, % years
old, was frozen to death while drunk at
Fargo. He was formerly employed by
a Chicago wholesale whisky firm and
lived on farm near Fargo. He ran out
of liquor, and while walking to town for
a fresh supply was overcome by the
blizzard and frozen to death. His body
when found was almost covered with
snow.
AT the same place two unidentified
men were found dead, and in the valley
near the town three more men are miss
ing, and there is not one chance in a
thousand that they escaped. Searching
parties are doing the best they can to
find either the men or their bodies but
little Is expected of them, as the cold is
too bitter for men to stay outdoors.
Thomas Anderson, 1S years old, was
lost at Moorhead Thursday night. He
left Fargo where he was employed in a
candy factory to go home with a young
woman who lived a mile east of Moor
head. After leaving her nothing was
seen of him, and searching parties were
out all night and to-day, but no trace of
the body could be found. The snow has
drifted so badly since then that the
task is almost impossible
Acting Mayor Kiefer has issued n call
for citizens to meet at o'clock to-mor-
row for systematic search for the
body.
WAY BELOW ZERO.
DENVER (Col), Nov 2S.-The mini
mum temperature record taken at the
Denver station of the Weather Bureau
to-day was degrees below zero at 6
a. m.
At IL o'clock 1t was 81 degrees above
zero.
Leadville reported II degrees below
zero; Pueblo II below: Cripple Creek.
II below.
The cold has been more severe in WV
| oming than in Colorado. At Lander
Wyo., the thermometer recorded % de-
grees below zero last night.
Idaho Falls, Idaho, reports 26 de-
grees below.
The weather IS moderating to-day.
observer Brandenberg says it win be
| much warmer tomorrow.
COLD DAY AT KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY. Nov. 2s.-This has