Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1888 — Perished In the Blizzard. [ARTICLE]

Perished In the Blizzard.

[Elizabeth (N. J.l special.] Alexander Bennett, John Bee, and another employe of the Singer Sewing Machine Company left Elizabethport Monday in a email row-boat for Staten Island. The empty boat was found in the ice far out of its course. It is thought the men reached the Staten Island ■bore, bukperished while crossing the meadow. [Watertown (N. Y.) special.l James A. Fitzgerald, a farmer, residing three m'les from the village of Lorraine, went there Monday to buy groceries, and left for home at 8 o'clock in the evening. Tuesday morning his horse was found in a field, half frozen. Fitzgerald has undoubtedly been buried in the snow.

[Newark (N. J.) special.] Three persons in this vioinity are now known to have frozen to death in Mondav’s blizzard. A milk, meat, and coal famine la threatened.