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Show MONTANA STORM LOSSES. Kstimated That Twenty Men and 20,000 Sheep Perished in Last Week's Storm. Helena, Mont., Oct. 24. The loss caused in this state by last week's storm is something astounding. Not within the recollection of the earliest settlers has such October weather been experienced. For five days last week snow came down almost unceasingly. At the town of Choteau, county seatof Teton county, it was from ten to twelve feet deep in drifts, and at least three feet on the level. The wind blew a grJe nearly all the time, but fortunately fortun-ately there was not a great fall in the temperature; if there had been a clean sweep would have been made of the live stock of a vast section of country. Numerous bands of sheep were completely com-pletely snowed under, and the cattle on the ranges drifted badly. Z. T. Burton, president of the Burton Land company and one of the prominent promi-nent stockmen of Teton county, who has arrived here from the blizzard-swept blizzard-swept district, says that the bodies of eight sheep-herders have already been found in his county, and fifteen other herders .who are missing have been given up as lost. He says loss of life will exceed twent3' persons in Teton county. As nearly as now can be estimated, esti-mated, 20,000 sheep perished in the storm in Teton county, and about 10,000 in Choteau county. |