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Show Til K LATE TKKItiriC STORM EAJr. Lo of Live and Ktovlt! Destruction of Property, ele. The Omaha Republican duriog the prevalence of the storm, had this: The severe snow arid n ind Btotio which now prevails in Nebraska, on the line of the U. P R Recommenced on Sunday la-!. Willi a wind blowing I'rnui the iioitli, wiih u eloeiiy of sixty miles per hour, m ar liien rivor hta-. hta-. tion, t-'oiuc 8(0 unit s vl Oni'iha, oau-ing no interruption to travel ur telegraphic communication until i.fier it h id reached reach-ed centril N':bratki7 whoru it began with redoubled fury. 'Ibis storm has no eqU'il in tho records of storms wtiiah havij occurred in Neb-aska, the oldest inhabitants say they have nevir seen anything to compare with it, the latCLess oi the su-ion muku.g it a matter mat-ter ol surpii-e to everyone. From its beginning, there has been no cessation whatever, of its violence and fury. I be wind has remained at nearly a sixiy mile velocity; tho temperature tem-perature down to about ten decreet below be-low zero; wind from tbo north, and the snow falling in a perfect thick cloud, so perfectly impenetrable to the sight, that at times the band oould not be seen when held at arms length from the bodv. From the Omaha Bee of tho 15th, tho day after tho storm commenced, wo clip the subjoined paragraph: From a dispatch to Mr. J.'J. Dick-oy, Dick-oy, the superintendent of tho Union Pacific telegraph, wo learn that the snow is drifting terribly, and is from four to five foot deep in drifts on tho track. Tbe air is filled with the flying snow, so that nothing can be seen at a (iintnncft of till v feet. Whilo the Omaha Herald of the 18th, says: From Thomas Keys, Esq., and Mr. John Evans, of the firm of Evans & Durnali, we gather tho following par-: par-: tioulars of the damage done on the line of the U. P. by the late Btorm. In company with G. D. Clark, purchasing agent for tho U, P., and T. J. Stalcy, thoy left hore last Sunday for Gibbon to organize an Odd FcIIowb' lodge. Mr. Evans represented tho severity of tho storm as being almost equal to that experienced here in 1850. At Gibbon, whoro they remained till tho blockade was open, it raged with almost al-most indescribable fury, the drifting snow in places heaping up to the proportion pro-portion of mountains, while the wind swept over tho plains at a velooiiy of about seventy miles an hour, carrying wkh it everything of a moveable nature. na-ture. Realizing tho danger they would incur by wandering ten steps from the house where they were stop ping, they ooncludcd to secure the doors, stop up the cracks, and have a g od lime in general until such time as they eould with safety return to Omaha. Enclosed by four dingy walls, in a room seven by nine feet, twenty-five mon remained from Sunday Sun-day night till Wednesday noon, not daring to open tho door. J udgo Morse being one of the imprisoned party, relieved the monotony of the situation by relating wonderful incidents, inci-dents, jokes, etc. But whilo they felt themselves securo from tho violent storm raging without, there were other persons in the vicinity of Gibbon suffering suf-fering the agonizing tortures of death by the Blow process of freezing and ; suffocation. A man and his wifo, living a few miles from Gibbon, could not bo found af ter the Btorm abated, and it was believed, be-lieved, at the timo our informants left, that they remained buried beneath be-neath the ruins of the house, which had blown down during the storm, and on which was heaped an immense snow drift. Every effort was boing made to recover the bodies. Three horses, owned by a resident of Gibbon,, perished from suffocation. Another man had fifteen head of fat cattle in a corral, out of which they succeeded in making their way', wandered wan-dered off to the river and were all drowned. Five more in another oorral met the same fate. A herd of cattle, valued at six thousand dollars, stampeded, stam-peded, and it is supposed all perished, as none of them had been found alive up to Wednctday evening. At Wood River no lives are known to be lost, but the loss in Btock is very great. Tho farmers woro organizing themselves into companios for the purpose pur-pose of scouting the country to ascertain ascer-tain the extent of damage done, and to rendor such assistance as may be necessary to those who survive and may require it. Tho rivor was completely com-pletely bridged with snow, ranging in depth l'rom fifteen to eighteen feet, and was packed in between the banks so hard that a loaded wagon oould pass over it with perfect safety. One man picked up soveral prairie ohiokens that were alive, but so benumbed be-numbed they could not fly. At Lone Tree, a boy who stepped outside the hotel to get some fuel was unable to rctraco his steps, wandered a short distance away from the house and perished. While search was being made for him, the body of a trapper was found. It is thought more lives were lost than those already reported, as nothing oan bo heard of the immigrants immi-grants that were camped along the line of the road before the Btorm commenced. com-menced. Two men are known to have perished perish-ed near Grand Island, and a great deal of Btook is also reported lost. Some of tho hogs taken out of the freight train at Lone Tree, which was unable to side traok, wore found to bo entirely destitute of hair, and had the appearanoe of having just been dragged drag-ged from a vat of scalding water. This ws caused probably by the heat becoming be-coming so intense in their endeavor to keep on top of the snow. But very Httlo stock was removed from the train alive. It will bo s mcdays jot before the full extent of the damage done is known. Thcso additional particulars were received by Western Union telegraph yesterday evening: Lincoln, Neb., 22, The train on tha Burlington and Missouri road came in this evening, the first time for a week. Reports of the late storm Bhow it to have been the severest ever known hero. Men were frozen to death within two tods of tho house trying to get to the stock to feed them. Near Grafton a man named Kesler attempted to reach a neighbor's, neigh-bor's, scarcely half a mile distant, accompanied ac-companied by his wife and child. The two latter were frozen to death. Mr. Marshall, near Hastings, perished while trying to reach his stock from his house. The wife and child of Mr. Brent, near Red Cloud, were frozen 1 while attempting to reach a neighbor's neigh-bor's as their house was rendered uninhabitable un-inhabitable Their bodies were found on Friday teu rods from the house. Families were compelled to take refuge in their cellars, or keep their beds for two daye. Houses were blown down or filled with snow. The destruction of cattle and horses was great. Some lost all they bad. One party lost a whole herd of seventy-five. The gullies gul-lies on tho railways were filled with snow as hard as ice. Snow plows were useless. |