Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1890 — PERISHED IN A BLIZZARD. [ARTICLE]

PERISHED IN A BLIZZARD.

Ten Persons and Thousands of Cattle and Sheep Frozen to Death in Waanington. At least ten hnman beings and thousands of cattle and sheep perished in a blizzard which began with the year and raged over Washington for a week. ports from the Colville reservation are to the effect that cattle are dying by bund-, redi from starvation and thirst, and that j the ground is covered with over two feet of j snow on the level, and in some places is' drifted mountain high. The keeper of the stage station twelve miles from , Alma started to walk to town last Thursday, and Sunday his body was found on the prairie only a mile from his home, frozen stiff. The mail carrier at Wild Goose Creek per“SShfißlrvSPfe storm. Cattlemen estimate that they will lose one half of their herds this season.