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Show The recent snow storm which interrupted in-terrupted tho mails and telegrap h communication along the Union Pacific railroad, was also very BOvere in Dakota. Da-kota. A special to the St. Louis Globe, from St. Paul, gives information informa-tion i'rom general Custar's command at Yankton, which Bays men and horses were foroed to abandon thoir camn and seek shelter in the houses of the citizens. Throe hundred horses were oared for in tho quartermaster's storehouse. store-house. Several men and some fifty horses were frozen to death. Accounts from tho Bed river region say tho storm, which commenced with a heavy rain, caused much difficulty to the Northern Pacific road, tbo track in some places having been four feot under water. Settlors wore oompelied to flee from their houses to escape from drowning. |