Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS. SNOW IN THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

THE FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

SNOW IN THE WEST.

Bltzz irdn tn Kansas Cause Much Suffering, People-Dying for Want of Fu.-l anil Food. Telegraphic advices Thursday in ilicate that there is terrible suffering in the western part of Kansas. Four people are reported dead in Clark county fronii the cold, whil e near Dighton a woman and her two children are known to have perished. There is great suffering in that section of the State, owing to the scarcity of coal. The supply was exhausted during "a previous cold snap in the first part of the month, and the situation is now deplorable. The suffering is augmented by the fact that food is almost as scarce as fuel. Many of the inhabitants are settlers whe located claims last, summer, and who are dependent on what the railroads bring in. The railroads are trying to ds al Tin tbeir power to relieve the distress, but they are handicapped by a scarcity of cars. They have not enough to supply the urgent demand for food and fuel* and widespread distress is inevitable unless the weather speedily moderates. The Santa Fe Road has already announced that it will ship freeallsuppliee which may be collected for Clark county. Demands on the miners are greater than can be filled, the messages are coming

in hourly demanding and appealing for fuel.' Farmers are burning corn, furniture and parts of their houses to keep from fret z’ng. Great, distress is reported from Mead and Clark counties, where several person have been frozen to death The snow on the level was six inches deep, and railroad traffic was seriously impeded. Reports of bitter cold coms from Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri as well as Kansas. At Aesinaboine, Dak., the temperature was 23 degrees below zero. In Minneso.a the storm was. by far the worst of the season and was general in the northwest, and even in Texas the inhabitants, were reveling in the luxuries of a snow storm. The man who wants the earth is th® very man the earth doesn’t want.