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Show $5,000,000 DAMAGE BY BLIZZARD IN MONTANA Heaviest ; Loss to i the Sheep ' and Cattle Interests Known in History of the State. GREAT FALLS. Mont May 20. The heaviest sheep and cattle loss in the history of Montana; the damage of which will foot up as high as $5,000,-000, $5,000,-000, has been caused by the' 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. It Is difficult to get names. An aged herder, employed by H. H. Wilson at Portage, was lost Sunday. Two more I In-the Shelby Junction country, employed em-ployed by the Florence Cattle company are missing and there is no hope that they can be found alive. Two thousand five hundred sheep are drifting on ranges without . herders. The latter have abandoned their flocks on every hand and fled for safety to the settlements and ranches. Nothing like the fury: of this storm has ever been witnessed in northern Montana. Of a consignment of (00 cattle bound from Havre, all but five were found frozen stiff. Losses are reported on every hand, from Harlem, from Leth bridge, from Chinook and Havre, and this district will feel the effects of the losses for years. Further advices last night tell of an appalling ap-palling condition on tho ranges of the north as a result of the storm which swept Montana 8unday. The worst re- j ports come from Teton county, where i the dead sheep and cattle can be found . in the snow drifts in piles of hundreds. In Cascade county the snow averages two' feet deep. In Shelby Junction, further fur-ther north, the drifts are so deep that the main street of the town is impassable to empty wa irons. All the herders have been driven in and 230.000 sheep are running wild near here. No word has been recelvnd of the three missing herders, and it 1s thought they, have undoubtedly, perished. |