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Mean Deaths Reported Amid Cold Wave Across States
A Chicago dispatch reports Joseph Grammer froze to death after falling from his wagon in below zero temperatures. Similar hypothermia fatalities occur across Leavenworth Kansas and Wisconsin with several elderly residents and a farmer among the dead. Five sheep herders die near Point Rock Wyoming in a blizzard. Indicated deaths include Todisnapolis Indiana and Rockville Maryland regions with multiple aged individuals found dead in snowdrifts or on roads.
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Chicago
Ill
Joseph Grammer
Gomer
T. Wiles & Co
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Sixteenth Street
Jemmer
Bia
Kinsle
Welle Street
Leavenworth
Kan
Joseph Duke
Marshall
Jasper Walker
St. Paul
Mino
Joseph Zulager
St. Cloud
Minn
Wimconsin
Milwaukee
Wis
Philip Keronenberger
Wauwatoss
Milwaukee County
Kronenberger
Wauwatma High School
Cheyenne
Wyo
Point Rock
Rock Springs
Turee
Todisnapolis
Ind
Waldron
W. E. Beylor
Rockville
Wright Fisber
Dewitt Jordan
Colville