Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1902 — THOUSANDS OF SHEEP PERISH. [ARTICLE]

THOUSANDS OF SHEEP PERISH.

Storm in Wyoming Cnueed Enormoue * Loaaea on the Range*. Reports from various sections of Wyoming indicate that the unexpected storm killed 12,000 or 13,000 sheep, the losses running from 2to 10 per cent. Tho heaviest loss occurred in Natrona County, where Shearing had commenced early. The loss there is estimated at 3,000 head. Reports from all parts of New Mexico say that sheep are dying Dy the hundreds. 'Fills Is lainbing season nnd the number of lambs that will be saved will be unusually rfniall. The range has poetically dried up on account of drought. While stealing a ride on top of a Big Four limited vestibule coach, Harry Egbert, a boy of Dayton, Ohio, was decapitated -by the iron stringer as the train paaaed under an overhead bridge. The train pulled into the station with the headless body of the still on the roof of the car.