| Show DAMAGE BY STORM IN MONTANA fOOTS UP MllllOt S Ninety Per Cent of Sheep on Ranges Perish THREE HERDERS ARE FROZEN Threo Days Blizzard Worst Ever Known l in State Many Herders Abandon Their Flocks and Flee to Settlements and Ranches to Save Their Lives I Great Falls Mont May 19The heaviest sheep and cattle loss In tho history of Montana the damage of which will foot up as high as 5000 000 has been caused by tho terrible storm which has been raging for the past three days In some sections fully 90 per cent of the sheep on the ranges have perished Three herders at least have wandered away In the blinding storm and been frozen to death HERDERS MISSING It Is dlfllcult to get names An aged herder employed by H H Wilson at Portage was lost Sunday Two more In the Shelby Junction country employed em-ployed by the Florence Cuttle company are missing and there Is no hope that they can be found alive FLOCKS WITHOUT HERDERS Two thousand five hundred sheep are drifting on ranges without herders The latter have abandoned their flocks on every hand and lied for safety to the settlements and ranches Nothing like tho fury of this storm has ever been witnessed In northern Montana CATTLE FREEZE TO DEATH Of a consignment of COO cattle bound from Havre all but live were found frozen stiff Losses arc reported on every hand from Harlem from Lcth brIdge from Chinook and Havre and this district will feel the effects of the losses for years APPALLING CONDITION Further advices tonight tell of an appalling ap-palling condition on the ranges of tho north as a result ofthe storm which swept Montana Sunday Thu worst reports re-ports como from Teton county where the dead sheep and cattle can bo found m tho snow drifts In piles of hundreds STREETS IMPASSABLE Tn Cascade county tho snow averages two feet deep 4n Shelby Junction further fur-ther north tho drifts aro HO deep that the main street of the town is Impassable to empty wagons HERDERS DRIVEN IN All tho herders have been driven In and 230000 sheep are running wild near hero No word has been received of tho three missing herders and It Is thought they have undoubtedly perished |
