Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1913 — MOTE OF BLIZZARD IN SOUTH DAKOTA [ARTICLE]

MOTE OF BLIZZARD IN SOUTH DAKOTA

John Fullins Also Sent Clippings From Newspaper About Worst Storm in Sixteen Tears. |v .' r T” v< Mrs. Mary K Pullins received a letter from her son, John Pullins, who lives at Geddes, S. Dak, where Joe Leach and other former Jafcper county people also live, stating that two blizzards occurred within the two preceding weeks. The Friday before he wrote the blizzard lasted for 18 hours. He also sent a slip from a paper stating that the storm was the worst in 16 years .and that a family of live on an overland journey to a new home were frozen to death. The man’s n'ame was Frank Perry. Hlmselt wife and three children, aged 8 years, 3 years and a baby were found dead by a searching party that went out after one of the moving teams wandered into a corral at a nearby ranch. Perry was the postmaster at Big Bend and had rented a ranch, which he Jried to reach in the face of the blizzard. The 19-year-old son was not frozen to death but was found wandering about on the prairie. He was delirious and his face, hands and feet were frozen. The searchers followed the trail made by thtf horses qnd found Perry and wife and their three children huddled together and all frozen to death. The men who went in search are missing and it is believed had suffered death in the storm. A dispatch from Pierre states that “the morning after" revealed Pierre with snow drifts on •very corner, as high in many plaefes as the ceiling of the first stories. The daily papers at Pierre suspended publication and business generally was stopped. The wind blew at she rate of 62 miles an hour but the temperature was not very low. A passenger train got within 2 miles of Pierre and was blockaded so that it could go neither forward or backword. Cattlemen had been congratulating themselves that there had been no loss to stock during the very open winter when the worst storm in 16 years struck the country.