One Dismal Story of Storm and Struggle From Every Quarter.
Nebraska's Dead.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 14.
The weather today has been the coldest of the season, the thermometer going down to 18 below. Reports of fatalities from Thursday's storms are still coming in.
Mrs. P. Smith was frozen to death while returning home from a neighbor's at Woodlawn.
John Sparks, an ex-member of the legislature, was found frozen stiff and dead within a quarter mile from home, nine miles from Beatrice.
Emil Gossman, of Peru, a farm laborer, was found dead within twenty yards of his house.
A child named Bodine is reported missing from his home near Nebraska City.
Railroad travel is again badly interrupted.
Daily Huronite; Huron, South Dakota.
January 16, 1888; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)
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One Dismal Story of Storm and Struggle From Every Quarter.
Nebraska's Dead.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. 14.
The weather today has been the coldest of the season, the thermometer going down to 18 below. Reports of fatalities from Thursday's storms are still coming in.
Mrs. P. Smith was frozen to death while returning home from a neighbor's at Woodlawn.
John Sparks, an ex-member of the legislature, was found frozen stiff and dead within a quarter mile from home, nine miles from Beatrice.
Emil Gossman, of Peru, a farm laborer, was found dead within twenty yards of his house.
A child named Bodine is reported missing from his home near Nebraska City.
Railroad travel is again badly interrupted.
Daily Huronite; Huron, South Dakota.
January 16, 1888; Page One.
dm wms (#47395868)
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