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The Wide-Sweeping- Blizzard Finds Many Victims.loss of Tile and Great Suffering in Oklahoma—Traffic Interfered with and Business at a Standstill in the Northwest.HORRORS OF THE STORM.Guthkie, 0. T., Feb. 14.—Reports come from the strip of great suffering *mong the homesteaders residing there. Several persons, it is reported, have perished in the storm, among them two families residing near Cross. No particulars can be obtained. Hundreds of . -head of stock were frozen to death.Many people are still living in tents Ctnd as fuel is scarce the condition is •twfuL James Mulligan, living 4 miles •outh of Perrv was found Moindav evening frozen to death, and his partner, Harvey Newcomb, died from eiivigure and cold fifteen minutes after being found. At Ponca Mrs. Jennie Cramer and two children, Lizzie and SHie, were discovered frozen stiff in a coyote’s burrow, 10 yards from their •bode.Au Awful Alternative.Word comes from Cross that Sherman Stone and family, consisting of wife and five children, were found sitting about a stove with their throats cut from ear to car. The following note found on. a table near by Stone gives a horrible story of murder and suicide in connection with the storm. ! i,, i“Wood all gone/ Moliie frozen to death, the [ c test of us freezing. I have killed my family j lt;. fcud now kill myself to prevent further suffering. God have mercy on us.- Stone was a homesteader and lived inm, tent. It is thought that after the♦now melts hundreds of dead settlerswill be found, along with the remainsof thousands of cattle. *
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Delphi Carroll County Citizen
Delphi, Indiana, US
Sat, Feb 17, 1894
Page 6
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Carroll C.
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