An Awful Record

Chicago, Jan. 17. - The great storm which swept over the entire country from the Northwest last week han been followed by a íreeze the like of whiuh has not been experienced since the memorable winter of 1864. The área of unusKal cold has been genera], ex ten ding f rom the extreme northern line of telegraphic communieation as íar south as Texas and the gnlï States. Extreme sufferjng is reported from all directions, especially in Minnesota, Dakota. Montana and Nehraska, where many lives have been lost. In Kansas thonsanda are suffering for want of both fuel and food, and in some counties aid is needed to Bave many from actual etarvatdon. The storm, while of course iess severe in Arkansas, Texae and other Southern States, Btill found tbc p!?ople there unprepared for it, and much suffering resulted. Crops and live stock have everywhere sufïered more or less loss. Dubuque Ia., Jan. 17 - The niercury registered 35 and 40 below in this city Saturday night. This is the coldest weather known liere for twenty-five years. Great Buffering is reported from the prairie. All freight trains on roads leading out of this city are abandoned. Keveral instances of loss to human life are reported, but no particulars are given. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 17. - The following table is compiled from the very latest reports of death by the recent severe storm: Dakota 97 Minnesota 18 Nebraska 17 Iowa 6 Montana 2 Total dead 140 Missing 65 Within a radius of lifty miles around Yankton, D. T, the loss of oattle, horses and sneep will aggregate 2,000 head. Itis almost imposssble to estímate tlie number who suffered the loss of limbs, but it is safe to calcúlate that 300 unf ortunates will suffer the loss of arms or legs. Chicago, Jan. 17. - The owest thermometer record Sunday night, south of Manitoba, was at Sparta, Wis. - 50 degrees below zero. In this city at 6 a. m. yesterday itmarked 14 below; at Helena, M. T, 34; FortKeogh, M. T., 32; Bismarck, D. T, 20; Des Moines, Ia, IS; Leavenworth, Kan., 10; Denver, CoL, (i; Moorhead, Minn., 28; St. Paul, Minn., 2(1; La ('rosse, Wis., 38; Milwaukee, Wis., 20; Escanaba, Mich., 28. Helesa, M. T., Jan. 17.- The cold wave continúes unabated throughont Montana, the thermometer ranging from 20 to 38 degrees below zero. Local trains are running, but there have been no through mails for five days. There ie an abundance of uncovered grass on the ranges, and but little Buffering in the cattle herds is reported. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 18.- The terrific cold continúes, and the weather at present is the severest known in many years. City thermometers registered all the way from 18 to 26 degrees below zero yesterday morning. The railroad trains are from two to six hours behind time on all of the roads, and every freight train in Wisconsin was suspended Sunday night In the northern part of the State f our feet oï snow is reported, and farmers and others are Buffering great hardshipe. Evanston, 111., Jan. 17. - The thermometer at this place ranged all the way from 10 to 16 degrees below zero Suuday morning, and from loto 20 below yesterday nioruing. This is about the range reported along the lake-shore región between Jlilwaukee and Chicago. Bichland Centeb, Wis., Jan. 17.- The thermometer yesterday registered 55 degrees below zero. Chippewa Faixs, Wis, Jan. 17.- Saturday and Sunday nights were the coldest ever known in this región. Sunday at 8 a m. the spirit thermometers indicated 50 below and at 12 m. 22 below. ïesterday morning it ransred from 55 to 62 below. Trains are still irregular. The poor commissioners are besieged with appeals and the poor-house is crowded. Clinton, Ia., Jan. 17. - Mercnry touched 32 below Sunday night At 10 a. m. yesterday it was 22. Many telegraph wires have been broken by the cold. No deaths are reported St. Louis, Jan. 18. - Telegrama from Texas announce that the worst blizzard ever known in that State has been raging, extending far south into the central section. The mercury in the vicmity of Waco and Corsicana dropped to 5 degrees below zero - an unpreoedented low register. Between Ennis and Corsicana nearly 300 head of cattle of a herd being driven from the prairies for shelter froze to death, and at Kerens, between Corsicana and Waco, a large number more died All railroad traffic is delayed seriously, and the general suffering is great, particularly in the prairie regions. It is feared the loss of human life will be severe. Jackson, Misa, Jan. 18. - Thi coldest weather of the season prevailed throughout the State, extending as far south as Summit The earth is covered witb sleet, snow and ice. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 18. - Keports of loso of life in the blizzard continue to come in, and the liet of those known to be dead numbers now 1 Bft It seeme likely that the total number of lives lost is fully 200. Abekdeex, D. T, Jan. 1 )s. - The report of the death of a school-teachur and sixteen children at Clear Lake township, in the eastern part of Edmund County, at first disoredited, is pro'iably true. It is reported that thirty-one school children are missing in Turner County. Three children of Mr. Heines, living northwest of Lennox. perished while going home from ecbooL O'NeilIí, Neb., Jan. 18 - Fifteen persons perished in last Thursdav's storm iu Cnster County alone The loss of stock is said to be enormous.