Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1888 — A TERRIBLE TALE. [ARTICLE]

A TERRIBLE TALE.

Fearful Kxpsrlencesiu <ha Recent Western Bnaamrd. Judge J. F. Kinney, Agent of the Yankton Sioux Indian Agency in Dako ta, arrived at Kansas City, Saturday, after being nine days on the road. Five days were necessary for the party to travel thirty miles. The thermometer during the five days was at 40’ below zero most of the time. The Judge sayb the loss of life in Dakota has been greatly underestimated, as the Dakota papers have tried to cover it up. He describes the scene which took place on board the cars. The coal was running low. The passengers were crowded into one car. trying to keep warm. Two babies per ished. The men discarded all the outer garments they could spare and gave them to the ladies and children. Finding these not enough, they brought mail sacks from the postal car and wrapped the children up in them. While at one station in Bonhomme county, the Judge Bays, nineteen frozen bodies were brought into the depot in one day. In Bonhomme county the list of dead will reach fully 160. The estima esas made at Yankton of the losa of life throughout the Territory figure up over 1,000. The counties where the loss of life was the largest are: Bon hotnme, 160; Hutchinson, 14; Lincoln, 13; Beadle, 25; Spink, 12; Hand, 10; Ward, 15. The northern and centra) parts of the Territory have not been heard from fully. Mr. Kinney name* I a number of curious incidents relative to the wander ings of those who went out in the storm. Mrs. Browning, of Turner county, went from her house to the stable, a distance of 100 feet and her body was recovered Sunday seven miles from home. Charles

Dollinger a farmer oi Turner county perished when seven feet from his house. An unknown woman of the same county went to care for her chickens and wes found two miles f om her house. Roads from the agency to Yankton are lined with dead cattle, many farmers losing all they had. One man lost over 100. The loss of sta ck cannot estimated. P. Clark and wife, of Yankton county were driving toward Yankton when the bl ztaid struck them. The horses refused to proceed and were turned loose. Mr. Clark took a strap and fastened one end to Mrs. Clark and the other to himself, and, turning ther backs to the wind, wandered at random. They came to a hay stack, into which they burrowed and remained all night In the morning Mr. Clark crawled out and proceeded to a house. He was obliged to crawl on his hands and knees, as his clothes were frozen stiff. He reached the house and procured assistance to go as Mrs Clark. She was dead when found William Reiswag and a man, living near Tripp, were found frozen to death within a few feet of the stable to which they had gone to care for stock. Joshua Taylor and two sons started to water their stock before the storm came np. Th sir bodies have not yet been found. Judge Kinney has received word from the agency, and he say, while a large number of Indians were out hunting and hauling wood, none are missing. Judge Kinney was accompanied all through the scenes of suffering by his wife. Both were slightly frozen about the hands and feet. '

Ah attempt was made to assassinate Louise Michel at Paris, Sunday, while she was making an address at a Socialist meeting. She received a wound in the head and the lobe of one of her ears was torn off, neither of which are of a serious nature. ~ A woman never reaches middle life, she is always young until she gets old enough to of her age.