The San Francisco call., 1899-10-26
SACRIFICED
LIFE TO SAVE
THEIR HERDS
Pathetic Story Of the Faith
fulness of Montana
Shepherds.
VICTIMS OF BLIZZARD
Perished With Their Flocks In
stead Of Seeking Safety From
the Storms Fury.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

"A E INNEAPOLIS, Oct. 25.-A special
IN ~ from Glen Falls Mont, says: II
IAH any one has concluded that the
wi time has passed when the servant
- is as faithful to the interests OF
his master as he could be to mis-
own, he should consider the story OF the
recent bliZZards which swept through
Teton County, in the northern part of this
State, county given up to the raising OF
sheep and cattle AS a result of that
storm nine men are known to be dead,
and the bodies of five have been recoV-
cred. With one exception all were sheep
herders, and all were found lying In such
positions as to indicate that they had
stayed with their bands to the last, dying
in their attempts to save the property or
their employers.
William Graham. working for the Cas-
cade Land Company, was found IN q
coulee near Healy Butte. 1t Is evident
that he had tried hard through the night
to get his sheep into camp, but had not
succeeded Conscious of the death WHICH
was impending, he returned to MS tent
about midnight. and there wrote ana leIt
a note saying he was nearly exhausted,
but was about TO return TO the sheep,
which We're drifting up the coulee' he
was found stretched on the snow. ms
lantern about twenty feet distant. or ms
two dogs, one remained to guard the body
while the other followed the sheep. He
was unmarried and recently said that he
had not relative in the world.
Norman Bruce worked for for MIL WI fIqWi ,,1T,
he managed to drive them into a sheltered
spot where they would be safe, Blinded
by the storm, he mistook the coulee Where
his cabin was built and wandered upon
another. Realizing his mistake too late,
he turned back and fell less than 200 yards
from his home and safety, The searching
party found his dogs stretched across the
dead body. Bruce was unmarried and
native of Prince Edward Island.
Max Gregorich was found with his arms
frozen upon his breast. His dog had fol-
lowed the sheep into camp and returned
with the rescue party too late.
H E. Herald, working for S. e: Schif-
in. was lying in the deep snow, his beard
eaten off by the sheep, which had also
eaten his clothes. and part of his boots.
This is only a portion of the pathetic
side of the disaster. and the fidelity OF one
of any other. 1t is probable the death list
is hardly begun. Bands Of sheep without
herders have been reported from various
points in the storm district. and later
these will be traced and the dead herders
found.
Now the snow covers up everything on
the prairie. and the coulees. many of them
more than 100 feet dIfe,ep, with steep SIDES. s;
was the most severe and most fatal Oc-
tober storm ever occurring in Montana.
4~~-<-H - 80 N@->@$9
now nearly 100000 men in the field, made
up as follows: Boer regulars, $4,000; artil-
lery, 1850; police, 1850; Orange Free State
troops. 50, 600; Natal Beers, 5000; Bechuan-
aland and Rhodesian Beers, 5000; foreign
legion. 600; Americans, 1000; Germans,
5000; Dutch Belgians, 2000; Irish, 1000;
Scandinavians, 600: French, Swiss and
Italians. 200. The Jews, it appears. are
doing police work
A special dispatch from Pretoria, dated
October "a, purports to give an interview
with one of the highest Transvaal execu-
tives, who is quoted as having urged that,
while the Boer successes were yet unim-
portant, there was still time for an amlc-
able settlement, as he believed the Beers
had been misled as to the real Issue.