Winona Daily Republican in Winona, Minnesota

Severe western blizzard claims buffalo hunters and settlers

From Concordia a November 27 report recounts a heavy snowstorm that trapped and nearly froze several buffalo hunting parties. Max Alwens and others endured days of exposure in dugouts, while multiple groups scattered in Graham and Atchison counties faced dozens of fatalities. By week’s end the toll rose with more bodies found or feared. A Schuyler letter notes two Bohemian farmers froze near Maple Creek in Colfax County, adding to warnings that deaths from the storm may exceed prior years.