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Great Suffering In Kansas

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
January
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Salina, Kan., Jan. 16.- The sweep of the j blizzard through Colorado and Kansas whs I accrmpanied by fearlul loss of life. In soms places tattle and uorses were f rozen todeath in tbeir stalls. The former blizzard9 left the people in an almost destitute condition. and, although the residonts of eostern Kansas were very emphatic in their denials of any suffering in the stat, tbe fact remains that there have been hundred3 of daaths in the western counties that were due to the severe cold. Reporte from Clark county, Kansas, are of the most alarming nature. Wuole families are saĆ­d to t have periahed in their houses, and others are said to be burniug their furniture in the stoves. Albert j son, a rancher in the afflicted district, who arrived here Monday, says that in Syracuse many bodies remain unburied He declares the blizzsrd to have been the most appalling yet experienced in the country. Robitison was himself badly frozen, bis eheeks being cracked open by the cold.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News