Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1881 — Corn for Fuel. [ARTICLE]

Corn for Fuel.

From the 4ft ■ 7-) Leader. A left Sioux City, la.. last Saturday reports that twothirds of the people: in Sioux City are burning coal WlMlwrty cents per bushel, while the rain toads are blockaded to Falls, St. Paul and Chicago|direct. A party who had just, arrnred from Sioux Falls on the first tippitt down in four weeks (the traclr being ftriw blockaded again) tiditfgs of an even more desperate of affairs. The people had everything from the;, luisber yard, and, that source of b»ng exhausted, they were tearing and consuming sheds and barns, further up,and especially on the prairie, <the suffering was terrible. The'liay gathered for stock was all used ud'for fuel, aud much stock had been killed to keep it from freezing and star\ injg. -; Rai 1 road ties were torn up, and telegraph poles cut down in piabes/hnd families were clubbing togetherlte \ spare a house or two for fuel, in ’ a neighborhood, after their coal And wood had been used up and their, available furniture was gone, >:' F W w . « A train that startedout with shovelers from Pierre had tor tie abandoned, and the men walked distant east and left for* escape: being snowed in. Just tci gpfe’ Vou an idea of the drifts that areT bfockkding the road, I will give ypg aiffillikstration. The mail-carried pho brefoght the mail through from S'leepy Eje to Huron, making the trip on snoyvsnoes, measured one drift. fejwStjMOTffiftct long and averaged 4C feet deep. At Pierre there is V'dlenKfl of food and fuel to last t until the sun raises the snow blockade, but from Huron to Sleepy Eye,;a distance of 260 miles, there is a famine both of fuel and food, and the suffering and loss of life to the unfortunate seFtlete who have taken up homestekdsjp’iti be simply awful. There is ftp way tft reach tnem with aid, and heaven duly knows what the result will fee. Many of these people located between these points moved in last fall, built a small house and did not lay in a winter's supply of provisions, that they could get all the supplies they needed by going to the railroad. Everything that will burn is being made use of by these wretoluM people to keep from freezing—ing not absolutely necessary , lunwef, Sards, railroad ties Joists and partions in houses, hay and grain, thing that will burn is seized upon-py those wretched people. The mipli carrier before spoken of said that on his trip he heard of eight people frozen to death, and in hjs opinion there must be many more that have already perished. It is impossible to form any idea of the number that must 1 Grish of starvation and csld if the ockade continues much longer. ;

; A history almost as sad and romantic as that of Romeo and Juliet Is attached to Green Mount, the well known cemetery at Baltimore, M<vi The property was once owned by J no. Oliver, a wealthy English merchant. His only child, a beautiful girl of twenty, was loved by a young man whose only unfitness to become her husband lay in the fact that a personal feud existed between him anathe girl’s stem father. They met clandestinely. and planned an elopement. The father found it out, and gave orders to his servants to patrol the grounds by night and shoot all trespassers. Disguised in man’s clothing, the girl attempted to escape, and was shot dead at the gate. Grief-stricken, her father erected a mausoleum upon the spot, and deeded the netire property to the city for a cemetery.