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UNIVERSAL BAZAAR ! READ THE PRINTED IN THE GLOBE. VOL. X. GROCERIES GONE UP. Total Destruction by Fire of Beaupre, Keogh & Co.'s Wholesale Store, Involving: a Loss on Stock and Building of $400,000. The Flames Supposed to Have Started in a Gas Engine Explosion. Store Rooms Rented and the Firm Will Begin Busi ness at Once. BIG FIRE in j the wholesale listrict, \vhie;h ;is been the bug •ear of insurance men and fire off. | cials for many years, loomed up i yesterday with a vengeance. The wholesale grocery | house of Beaupre, ; Keogh _ Co. was ! entirely gutted, \ entailing a total loss, including j .•light damage to j stirrou n d i n_g j buildings of "MOO- ! 000. An alarm ot : lire was turned in ' from ..... ... at the corner of Third and Wacouta streets, at 4:27 o'clock. The engines of the district responded, and in .five: min utes more a combination second and third alarm was turned iii, and then ' a general alarm, bringing the entire de partment and every piece of apparatus in the city to the burning building. THE BUILDING IN FLAMES. The basement and first and second floors of the buildings were wrapped in flames when the" firemen arrived, and the dense smoke which filled the build ing and poured from every door and window made any attempt to enter ut terly impossible. Many of the em ployes on the upper floors barely es caped with their lives by the firemen's ladders, one of them losing conscious ness from suffocation. Not a cent's worth of the large stock was saved, but the papers of the firm and part of the fixtures of the office, located in the cor ner farthest from where the fire .origi ■____, were gotten out. Three elevator shafts and a stairway fluting the build ing from top to bottom afforded ** .;- AN EXCELLENT DRAUGHT, and in less than a quarter of an hour the flames were drawn up and shot through the roof. The fire was totally uncontrollable from the first. Thirteen streams played upon it, coming from every direction, but the water seemed to be evaporated by the intense heat. The flames burst almost instantaneously from every side, and the heat drove the firemen back to the opposite side of the street. The plate-glass windows in the stores of the Byan Drug company and Foote, Schulze & Co., across Fourth street, and in Yanz, Griggs & ll awes, across Wacouta street, cracked and fell In. Once the window casings in the upper floor of the store of Yanz, Griggs & _________ caught fire, but the firemen put it out with chemicals from the inside. A double fire wall, separat ing the burning building from the six, story clothing store of Burbank __ Co. adjoining on the west side, amply pro tected against a spread in that direc tion, and Burbank <fe Co. escaped with a slight scorching. The police were on hand in force and kept the crowd back at a safe distance, averting any catas trophe by falling walls. The flames ate their way through the wooden joists with terrific speed, and floor after floor fell crashing down with a boom that sounded for blocks around. The front a"d rear walls stood firm, but the T : > on the Wacouta street side Wttped out and hung in tottering uncertainty, until the top floor gave way, when It fell outward, filling the street with a debris of brick and mortar five feet thick. Several firemen nar rowly escaped being buried beneath the falling wall. At 5:30 o'clock all danger of a spreading conflagration was over, and the firemen had the burning mass of ruins well in hand. There is no sal- vage on the stock, and very little, if any, on the building. J ._" LOSSES AMI INSURANCE. Frank Keogh. of the firm of Beaupre, Keogh & Co., said last night that their total loss on stock would not be far from .-00,000. They are fully insured with the agency of John Rogers, Jr., ft Bro., No. 109 East Third street, and the following is a complete list of the com panies insuring and the amount of risk assumed: Buffalo German, Buffalo, N. V _____> Citizens', Pittsburg • * '...2,500 Standard. New York '. . . .2,500 New York Bosrerv, New York 5,000 Lion, of England *_*..">( Howard, of New York 2,500 Mercantile, of Boston 2,500 Enterprise, Cincinnati 2,505 People's, New York 2,500 Amazon. Cincinnati 5,000 Factors' and Trailers'. New Orleans, La.s,soo Westchester. New York ... .'. .2.500 Union, California 5,0( >o Jersey City, New Jersey 2,500 London Assurance, of London, Eug.. .5.000 Bovlston, of Boston 2,500 North British _ Mercantile .....,50_ Home of New York -,500 Sun Fire, London .5.000 Liverpool, London _ Glohe , 5,000 Northern of London 5,000 Connecticut ot Hartford. Conn 'J, 500 Girard of Philadelphia 2,500 Lancashire, England 3,000 Commercial Union.England 5,000 Phoenix, London 5,000 Milwaukee Mechanic-, Milwaukee ____2,sQo Rochester, German, N. V 2,500 Fire Association, Philaaelphia 5,000 Western, .ittsbuag 5.000 -American, New York .5.000 German, Peoria 2,500 Citizens', Pittsburg 2,500 Springfield Eire and Marine .2,500 Fireman's Fund, California 2,5-0 Firemen's, of Dayton 2,500 North American, Boston 2,500 Sun, of Loudon 2,500 Clinton, of New York 2,500 Washington Fire and Marine, 805t0n.. 500 Phoenix. London 2,500 Lancashire, Englahd 2,500 Clinton, New York 2,500 Williamsburg city. New York 2,500 American. Philadelphia 5,000 Security, New Haven 5.000 German. Pittsburg _ 2,500 British America, Toronto 5,000 Rutgers, New York 2,500 Firemens, New Jersey .......*. 5,000 American Central, St. Louis 2,500 Scottish Union _ Nati0na1 ........... . .2,500 Eire Association, London.... 2. 500 Providence. Washington 5,000 Spring Garden; Philadelphia 5,000 Insurance Co.. State of Pennsylvania.. 2.soo M. S. Fire, New York } 2,500 Sun Fire _ Mar, California 2,500 Montauk, Brooklyn .'.2,500. Franklin, Columbus '_*.._._ 5.00(» : American-Central. St. L0ui5.;.'....,..'.'. 2,**o<) American. Newark ; ... 2.500 Norwich Union,. Eng1and...... .... ... 2.500 "Vow York Bowery. N. Y. .*"*. J ....... . ."_ 2.5t.0 Mercantile, (1. velanl 5,000 Pejple's.P.ttsluin: '.. ; 2,500 American, Phil i,i lph . :...-..... 5,000 : — Fire Insurance Association, London. . . 7.500 SI. Paul Fire _ Marine 5,000 Commerce, Albany 5.000 Louisville Underwriters' 2.500 Merchants', New York. 2.500 German, Peoria 5,000 Trans-Atlantic, of Germany 500 Company, Philadelphia, Pa 2.500 Union of Philadelphia 2.500 German— 2.500 Concordia— Milwaukee... 2,500 City of London 5,000 Continental, New York _ .2,500 Continental, New York ....;.• 2,500 Farmers of York ".;... 2,500 Pacific— York 2.500 Guardian of London 2,500 Imperial of London 2,500 ________ of Dayton 2.500 Concordia— 2.50 Peoples'. New Hampshire........ 2,500 Transatlantic of Germany 2,500 Total insurance of stock.... $298,000 The furniture and fixtures of the store were insured for $5,000 with the Ameri can Insiuance company, of New York, making a total insurance of $303,000 car ried by Beaupre, Keogh & Co. THE BURNED BUILDING. The building was a five-story and basement of red brick, fronting 100 feet on Third street and cornering on Wa couta. It was built in 1881, and cost about $92,000. Ferdinand and Gustav Willius, of the German-American bank, owned the east seventy-five feet of the building. Their loss is about $70,000, and they are insured for $60,000. Bobert S. Bantoul owned the remaining twen ty-five feet, which was separated from the Willius part by a fire wall, through which arches were cut. . Mr. Bautoul's loss is $22,000. and he is insured for $10, --000, having allowed $10,000 insurance to lapse recently. Most of the insurance on the buildings was placed with com panies represented by the agency of Weed & Lawrence. The damage to the building occupied by Yanz, Griggs & Howes is about $2,000; to Foote, Schulze & Co., about $2,000, and to Bnrbank & Co., about $1,000; ail these firms being fully in sured. These estimates made the total loss by the fire an even $400,000, and the insurance $378,000, * HOW IT STARTED. No person pretends to know where the fire started, but it was : somewhere in the basement of the Bantoul build ing. A gas engine .used to propel the elevators was located in this basement, and It is thought that the gas reservoir exploded. The fire was not discovered until the entire basement was in flames. For some reason the firemen were un able to get a stream higher than the fourth story of the building;. This was SAINT PAUL, MINN.: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1888. due partly to an inadequate water sup ply. The water mains are only, twelve? inch pipe, and with thirteen engines at work it proved impossible to get a suffi cient pressure. While the ruins were still burning ' Mr. Keogh announced that the firm had rented stores from the St. Paul Storage and Forwarding company, Nos. __.) to -89 East Third street, and would continue business as usual. Gustavo Willius said last night that it was en tirely probable that the ruins would be cleared away at once ami a larger and much more imposing building erected on the spot, y *;y. ; Sparks. A spectator standing with his back to a line of hose was struck by a stream of water from a break and suddenly pro pelled forward several feet. lie thought ' ■ SEEN -BOM THE GLOBE TOWER. he had been kicked by a companion, and showed fight for a minute or so, but was soon laughed into submission. The firm of Yanz, Griggs & Howes desire, through the columns of the Globe, to thank Chief Black and the members of the St. Paul fire depart ment for their brave efforts in saving their premises from the terrible fire last evening. They also beg to announce to their customers that their offices have hi en removed from the corner of Third and Wacouta streets to the inside of the building until such time as the cor ner offices can be repaired. Grave fears were entertained at one time that the entire wholesale district would fall a prey to the devouring ele ment, and this catastrophe was only averted by the efforts of the firemen and the fact that there was no wind blowing. The union depot and hun dreds of cars were endangered, also, for a time, and the fire fighters directed several steady streams in that direction. Merchants in the block where the fire originated were, actively engaged in storing books and valuable papers in their fire proof vaults, thinking this a wiser plan than a removal from their business houses. - From the windows of the fifth floor of the Evan a splendid view of the fire could be had, and these points of obser vation were utilized by the lady guests of the hotel, many of whom neglected their supper on account of the fascinat ing spectacle. Several firemen essayed to work a line of hose from the roof of the Bur bank building on the Third street side, but the heat was so intense that they were compelled to desist after a long climb of the fire escape on that street. An insurance man, who was dissatis fied with the way the water worked, will agitate a plan to have pump houses built on the river for the protection of the wholesale district. ' : . Secretary Ltoyd, of the Cable com pany, had tarpaulins spread over the slot to prevent water from leaking into the conduit from the lines of hose at the joints. Insurance men were thick in the crowd and computations of losses began before the flames broke out of the sec ond story windows. The express goods stored in the build ing across Second street were loaded on flat cars ready to be moved out of the way if occasion required. Hon. P. H. Kelly, despite his recent illness, could not keep off the street in the vicinity of the fire. It is thought that the fire will prevent the cable line from being operated for some days yet. Jim Nugent surveyed it from a dis tance, y-- Chief Black missed his old adviser, Harold J. Cleveland, but he got there just the same. All the members of the board of fire commissioners were there, and Com missioner Jere Prendergast had many useful suggestions to offer. It was a bad day for firemen. They were roasted and frozen by turns. First Assistant Chief Jackson had charge of the front and Second Assist ant Chief Keller ran things in the rear. It was feared at one time that the front wall would fall, and the appa ratus was moved to a safe distance. There were fewer broken hose than usual. Chief of Police Clark demonstrated his ability to superintend the handling of a crowd. Donald Grant, of Faribault, was on his way to catch the Winnipeg traiu,but he stopped too long watching the fire and got left. V ; Stanley Prandfit was an early arrival. The detectives were everywhere watching for pickpockets. Their Troubles Over. Washington, Jan. 17.— One of the first acts of the president this morning was to attach his signature to the com missions of Mr. Justice Lamar, Secre tary Vilas and Postmaster General Dickinson, each of whom called at the White house during the morning and received his commission. Messrs. Vilas and Dickinson subsequently took the oath of office and were duly installed in time to attend the cabinet meeting at noon to-day as full-fledged members. Want Higher Wages. . Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 17.— A commit tee representing the Brotherhood of Lo comotive Engineers of the Pennsylvania ia company's lines.called upon Manager Baldwin this afternoon and presented a petition for an advance in wages. This, together with the, .conductors, brakemen and yardmen's petitions, now in the hands of the officials, for an in crease in wages, shows that the move ment is a general one. , * . ~ ■:. -. *. v *m Forged Contracts. - ■ ■■ i . Boston, Jan. 17.— alter F. Gregg, a jeweler at 36 Bromfield street, was ar rested to-day charged with obtaining 112,000 worth of diamonds, watches, etc., from M. Davis and the 11. A. Prentice company by means of forged contracts. A MERCILESS BLAST. The Blizzard's Work Most , ; Deadly Among the Little School Children. Thirty-One Pupils Frozen to Death in a Single Dako ta County. Additions Made to the Mortu ary Record in the Vicinity of Yankton. How a Plucky Teacher Saved Herself and Her Scholars —Storm Echoes. Special to the Globe. Canton; Dak., Jan. 17. The death of Edwin Kyi ling, a farm boy of seven teen years, is just reported from twelve miles south'; of Canton. He was after hay and could not reach home. It.- is reported that thirty-one school children , are missing in Turner county. Three children' of Mr. lleines, northwest of Leiinox, perished while going home from school. . ..The lady teacher argued and' pleaded with j the scholars not to leave the school room, and finally locked the doors, but they were too many for her and had their way. One scholar, aged seventeen, was among the lost. ' One man was nearly crazy and wanted to kill the school mistress, but the explanation of the scholars exoner ated her. This makes seven children lost in the vicinity Of Lennox. A team" of horses and a cow were frozen stiff near the west end of the county. The driver probably perished. *" B_.8 _. ; THE REPORT CONFIRMED." Special to the Globe. Aberdeen, Dak., Jan. 17.— The re port of the loss of a teacher and sixteen children in southeastern Edmund county is confirmed. The bodies of the teacher and of nine scholars are reper ted found. A party is still in search for other bodies. ..The names of the lost can not be learned. TWO MORE. Special to the Globe. Huron, Dak., Jan. 17.— addi tional deaths were reported this after noon from the great storm. One is. Burdett Scofield, aged sixteen, living in Bear Creek township. He had been to Wolsey for a load of coal -and was on : his way home when the storm came up._; He took the horses from the sleigh and' followed them some time and then I let them go. When found Scofield was five miles from where the horses were left. The team also . perished. ', The other is Katharine Druse, living nine miles southwest, of Wolsey. She with her brother and sister were at -the barn doing chores. They, started for the house, lost their way and she froze to death. The body was found forty rods from the -.-. house. The prohibition convention called to meet here to-day to organize* a third party in South Dakota , was slimly at tended on account of the snow block ade. It was decided to call another convention .here . March 20. A large quantity of delayed mail was received from the south this afternoon, the first since Wednesday.. The road will be opened to Pierre to-night. . • ■ . a OMAN'S FATE. Special to the Globe. ' * Wahpeton, Dak., Jan. 17.— 1t was hoped Richland county had escaped without contributing a victim to the storm. Word came to-day that Mrs. John Frundt, near Hankinson, left home Wednesday afternoon to aid her nearly blind husband: home from Han kinson. She reached a neighbor's place, half a mile away, and started back home, but failed to reach it. Her hus band remained at Hankinson. He now has eight motherless children to look after. . FOUR VICTIMS. Special to the Globe. Gary, Dak., Jan. 17.— far four daaths are reported in this county, but there will be many more. The North western opened the road to this place to-night, bringing a seven days' mail. It will take two. days' hard work to get from here to Watertown. . . A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Special to the Globe. ' y Big Stone City, Dak., Jan. 17.—An drew Magnussen, August L. Johnson, and another Norwegian, Ole, were in Big Stone City the 11th and started to go home, ten miles south, about 4 p. m. Everything went all right the first four miles, but it then got dark and they called at R. Reech s to leave one of their teams. He . had no room and showed a neighbor's house near by who had room, but they continued on their road. A mile below there they left their sleighs and mounted the horses, but soon lost the road and wan dered about the prairie. August John son and Ole got to the house of Andrew ' Swansen, at Lake, at 8 o'clock this morn ing, both badly frozen, and yesterday a party of men hunted for Andrew Mag nussen and his mules. They found him dead about one mile from Lake Albert, lying on his back. - The mules were not far from him alive. .-: They went ...west after they left their sleighs in place of going south. Deceased was a single man over. thirty years old. Several others had narrow escapes. trains again running. i Special to the Globe. Watertown, Dak., Jan. 17.— The weather ' has considerably moderated. : The railroads are being opened. _$•;, special train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern arrived this after noon. A train from the east on the Chicago & Northwestern is expected to night; also a train from the west on the same road. In another day or two Wat ertown will be in full communion with the outside world. ' •'..,' .;' DIED WHILE PRAYING. '. t' Special to the Globe. . I- Jamestown, Dak.," 17.—Informa tion was received here to-day of -** the . probable freezing to death in the recent blizzard of M. A. Ryan, a farmer living ■ eight miles south of Cleveland. Ryan went to Windsor on horseback last" Wednesday and started to return in the evening in the face of the gathering storm. He was seen for the last time when a few miles out by a man named Forbes, who says Ryan was only ordi narily dressed for winter weather. Ryan has now been absent six days. All the neighbors and his wife, who is frantic with grief, give him up as lost. Ryan was about forty, years / old, married, had .". - two"; children, and had* held down a claim' ' near Cleveland for two years. This ' Is the only case of probable storm fatality yet reported in Stutsman county.'!.' Sev eral parties were out over night, but by! remarkable presence of mind and will-" power succeeded "in weathering the storm. Searching parties, organized at : W 'lulsor, are scouring, the prairies tor; traces of the "wanderer. • . ~y, A telegram just received from Wind sor says the body of Ryan was found to night frozen stiff near a haystack, about* seven miles from home. ills hands in -lotted that ho met death while pray ing. I r .. . FOUR PERISHED. Special to the Globe. I-.*-. Miller, Dak., Jan. 17.— Reports from the outside limits of the county are j very slow about coming in. We will •probably hear of still more deaths, but i we- are now positive that four are vic tims of the terrible storm, and have i pretty positive evidence that two or 'th__j others are also. The known dead are J. M. Gowlee, Alexander Thomp son, Maggie Dunn and Mr. Holtz; . _ AT PIERRE. Special to the Globe, : Pierre. Dak., Jan. 17.— N0 trains have reached here since last Tuesday. The train that has been snowed in at Highmore for a week worked to within five miles of here last night, when the engine and plow went in a ditch. A wrecker started. from Huron this morning, but was snowed in at High more all day. It is expected the track will be cleared at 12 o'clock to-night and the first mail for the week will ar rive. Commissioner j McClure was on the snow bound train, and walked in from the wreck last night. No deaths or cases of suffering are reported in this vicinity. The weather is moderating. The wind is fiom the south. . HIGHMORE CASUALTIES. Special to the Globe. y Highmore, Dak., Jan. 17.— is true that Sister Wilemina was frozen to death at Stephen mission Thursday forenoon last. She was returning from the home of the priest and was over taken by the blizzard. When found she was standing up against the fence with which the quarter section is surrounded. She was still alive, but died that night. Two i Indian boys who were sent to look for her became lost but were found in time to save them. The wife of An thony Haby, of North - Hyde couuty, helped her husband do the chores, and started for the house.' She has not been seen since. It is "reported that one of the Spurling brothers, in North Hyde | county, is frozen to death. . ."*. ; THE DEAD AND MAIMED. A Man Found Frozen Dead Near :'..'*-'■ His Own Home. Special to the Globe. : '. " Alexandria, Minn., Jan. 17, — M. H. Countryman, living four miles south of this city, was found frozen- to death within twenty rods of his house this morning. He' left hero last even . ing on foot, carrying about fifty, pounds of provisions with him. It is supposed he became exhausted' from wallowing through the deep snow and was unable :to proceed farther. He leaves a large family in destitute circumstances. • y "'..-'■ . THREE FATALITIES. . ' Special to the Globe. \ \ ■•' Sioux City, 10., Jan. 17.— Trains are > all running here as usual and the I weather is much warmer. At Paullina, !in O'Brien county, Mrs. Anderson, her : mother and son got frightened at the . terrible storm and started out in it to go !to Mr. Anderson's brother's, a short 'distance away.. All three were found in a cornfield near by yesterday.. The 'old lady had become exhausted and sank down : beside a ■ wire • fence, and ■"■ was in a sitting post ure when found. The -daughter had "zone a short distance further and sunk 'helpless 'in the drift.-" The.' boy floun i dered on still further and then gave out Bear the same place. Two sisters named __sliu .were found _ dead. ; They had .started home from school in company with their father and brother," in a sled. The team gave out and the men started on for help, but got lost and saved their, lives only by. crawling into, a haystack that they found- in their wanderings. G. W. Miller and S. C. Deguibert, of this city, went oyer into Nebraska to hunt just previous to the storm; promis ing to return Saturday; As yet nothing has been heard from them and the prob abilities are that they perished. -y IN MONTANA. . . 'Special to the Globe. '-"* - Helena, Mont., Jan.- 17.— The : weather has moderated all over the ter ritory and temperatures are reported to ' day from all Montana points ranging from zero to 30 deg.' above. At Helena this morning, at 5 o'clock, the thermom etor stood 25 deg. below zero and at noon it was zero, where it remained un til nightfall, when it grew colder. The railroads are getting back to schedule time. To-night four trains arrived from the east over the Northern Pacific, bringing five days' mail. Barring a new storm, all roads will be running regular trains in a few days. .Last, night a train-load of coal arrived, evening the railroads considerably, as the want of fuel was beginning to be felt.. . MORE GLOOMY TIDINGS. Special to the Globe. -.:.-'• . Scotland, Dak., Jan. 17.— Since yes . terday the frozen corpses of William Reiswig and a hired man living twenty miles north, have been -found. _ Joshua Layton and his son Alonzo, farmers liv ing I near Tripp, went ■ to water their stock Thursday afternoon. :•= Since then nothing has been seen or heard of them, although the country has been searched for miles around. : George -Vellhener, a stock dealer at Tripp, has been missing since Thursday. He was on the prairie .with the stock when the. storm came up. He perished - beyond doubt. The oldest daughter of P. H. Sweet, who i was frozen ■so badly, is not ex pected to survive the night. Two more dies of school children have been dis covered in this county, making twenty in all. The death list in Hutchinson I county now number twelve. Over 1.000 •head of cattle perished in Yankton, Bon Homme and Hutchinson counties. It is : probable that .ten or more bodies will be ? found in this vicinity, as there are more than that number missing since the storm. '..'.' j: - NEBRASKA HORRORS. Special to the Globe. | -.elioh, - Neb., Jan. 17.— A school teacher and eight children, names un known, were lost in the storm in the j* porthern . part of Holt county. , . Five men. named Styckle, brothers, were •frozen to death six miles from here. An old man named Glose also perished. A boy named -Miller was frozen to death and his mother will lose both legs and one arm. They were returning from the funeral of a relative at Foster. Miss Louise Royce, teaching school near this place, attempted to. go from a school house to a farm-house twenty, rods ' away with three of her pupils. She- lost her way in the storm and all laid down in the snow. The children died during the night, but Miss Royce reached the house in the morning with both feet ;fio_en. They will have to be ampu tated. Henry Keichheifer and his son a_» lost their lives while trying to find some . cattle. Their bodies were found within ten rods of a farm house, lying 'side by side.' -; •; y. •■y..: 7 7.: ■7 "-'/ A PLUCKY TEACHER. How She Saved the Lives of Her j .- .-" Little Pupils. Special to the Globe. • '-._ - v :. .; Omaha, Neb., Jan. 17.— J. H. Ayer, of Ord, Neb., and one of the secretaries of the 'state board of transportation, to-, day . told •an interesting story , of the pluck and good judgment exhibited by a young lady school teacher, of Valley I county, during the recent storm. When * last Thursday's blizzard came up, the . teacher, Miss Minnie ■ Freeman, who is still in her teens, was in the little school {house of Myra valley district with thir- pupils, ranging in age from six to I fifteen, years. About an hour before !___■_. _t.W._-_*^£___^ the time for .dismissal the blizzard, which swept across the level prairies of Nebraska with a fury which can hardly be conceived of by those who have never experienced it, struck the school house with such force as to tear the door from its hinges. Another terrific gust struck the building, and in the twenkling of an eye it carried away the roof, leaving the frightened little ones exposed to the ele ments. The time for prompt action had arrived, but the plucky teacher was equal to the emergency. She gathered her pupils together, and securing a coil of strong, heavy twine, began with the largest ones and tied them all to gether by the arm three abreast. Taking the youngest in her arms, she tied the end of the twine around her own body, and with all the words of encourage ment she could muster, started out into the storm. Selecting her way carefully the brave girl led her little charges through the snow drifts and the blind ing blizzard, and after a wearisome journey of three-quarters of a mile the little band reached the threshold of a farm house and were taken in. STILL GROWING. The List of Dead About .Yankton Increasing in Proportions. Special to the Globe. Yankton, Dak., Jan. 17.— The list of dead who perished in the snow con tinues to increase in number. Tour correspondent has carefully investigated all reports which have been received thus far, and has only confined his work to Dakota counties lying within twenty-five miles of Yankton, as many more are missing, the major ity of whom are probably dead. Mrs. Wilson, of mining Water, a teacher in a school twelve miles from Tyndall, has been found on the prairie eight miles from Tyndall with nine of her school children, all dead. One was the child of Matthew Weisser, three of Christian Kafel and five of Georee Gi short. A. J. Winters, of La Crosse, Wis.; J.O.Roby son, of Yankton; Joseph Kocork, farmer; Nels Halliberton.farm er; Mrs.- Frank Bam bos, a farmer's wife. In Hutchinson county, W. B. Ileadley, of Parkston, and two boys of John Tebelins were frozen to death. P. H. Sweet and wife and five children, near Olivet, were out in the storm fifteen hours and .. :.*:.. WERE BADLY FROZEN. Some of them wiil die. Four deaths are reported from Douglas county. Lizzie Dwyer, of Turner county, was lost -in the storm re turning from school and her body found Friday. Near Freeman, in Hutch inson county, five school children were found frozen to death, three belonging to John Kaufman, one to John Albrecht and one to Peter Grabers. . The wife of John Gunns was found on the prairie frozen to death. Several parties are missing. Wesley Kocorek, an aged Bo hemian farmer living about ten miles northwest of Tabor, was found on . Friday morning in Creek Valley frozen to death. His team had not been found yesterday morning. A man, who came by the Cooley ranche in Bou Homme county yesterday, says that in Cooley's heavy timber he counted 2oo frozen cattle, besides a large number of hogs. On a section known among -the Bohemians as Wiborny's land, north of Tabor, through which a small creek runs, 140 head of cattle frozen stiff were counted yesterday in the creek valley. Farmers say that '•'y'y*;D-AD CATTLE and hogs " in large numbers may be seen on either, side of the road between Yankton and Bon Homme. The loss : of live stock seems to be the greatest through that section. - The body of Frantz Weifener,' who was found frozen to death' near TJtica; was brought to this city, this morning to await the arrival of rela tives of the deceased from St. Helena, Neb. The corpse is frozen stilt" and when struch gives forth a metallic sound. Divided into counties the fatalities, as far as verified, are: Hutchinson, 7; Yankton, 3; Bon Homme, 10; Clay, 4; Turner, 4. From ail sections of Bon Homme and Hutch inson counties parties are reported miss ing, and there is more than a probabil ity that they are numbered with the dead. All persons missing at this date since tne storm may be classed among the viclims of the blizzard. This will largely increase the death roll. A BROKEN RAIL. It Wrecks a Passenger Train and Causes a Serious Disaster. Cleveland, 0., Jan. 17.— A passen ger train on the Lake Erie & Western railroad was wrecked this morning near. Bluffton, 0., by a broken rail. The lo comotive and baggage car ran over the break all right, but the smoker and la dies' car turned over on their sides and were dragged nearly half* a mile before the train was stopped. Albert Gilbert, a traveling man from Fostoria, 0., jumped from the front platform of the smoker and the car toppled over on him, crushing him' to death. The cars took fire from the stoves after the wreck, and it was only by heroic exer tions on the part of the train men that fearful loss of life was prevented. Frank Mayo's "Nordeck" company was on the train and several of the actors were hurt. Following is a list of the dead and injured: KILLED. ALBERT GILBERT, Fostoria, O. * INJURED. F. W. REDDING, of Findlay, 0., seriously cut by glass. G. ft. WAYS, of Findlay, badly hurt about the head. . C. YOUNG, of Findlay. badly cut on legs. The following members of the Mayo company were injured: MISS FRANCES GRAHAM, ankle dislo cated and back sprained. EDWIN NOLOD, left hand crushed and afterwards amputated. NEIL GRAY, cut on the head. ROBERT NEIL, thrown through window and badly bruised about head and face. LAWRENCE JOHNSTON, ri _ht arm broken. - J. C. HARFEY, head badly cut with glass. . This is the first accident in sixteen years on this road in which a passenger has been killed. A Fatal Collision. Rochester, N. V., Jan. 17.— A col lision occurred early this morning on the Erie railroad between Avoca and Kanona. Train No. 118 from Rochester dashed into train No. 107 coming from the east. Engineer Maynard, of train No. 107, one of the oldest engineers on the line, was killed outright and a fire man named Marsh was seriously in jured. Several passengers are reported injured, but. precise facts arc at this time unobtainable. A Train Ditched. Fixdley, 0., Jan. 17.— A passenger train was wrecked at Mount Cary, near here, this morning. All the cars were ditched. Allen Gilbert was killed, and twenty-five others were injured, none fatally. A Montreal Blaze. Montreal, Jan. 17.— broke out on St. James street this morning. The cold weather hampered the firemen, and two buildings were gutted. Loss, 1150, --000; partially insured. . . .; Mama's Heavy Los.s I • Chicago, Jan. 17.— Fire at Maroa, 111., yesterday destroyed property in the business portion of the village amounting to $30,000. The total insur ance amounts to only $12,000. BACHELOR BUCHANAN Another Story Regarding- the Reason for His Persistent Celibacy, Which Attributes His Conduct to the Folly of a Certain Miss Coleman, Who Crowned Her Pride and Fickleness by a Very Sudden Death. The Globe's Contribution to History, However, Authen tic and Impregnable. ____________ Special to the Globe. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 17— Miss Blanche Nevin, the sculptor and artist, designer of the Muhlenberg statue in the capitol at Washington, denies the Globe love story of ex-President Bu chanan. Mr. Buchanan was the inti mate friend of her grandmother, and she herself knew him well. She says: "It seems improbable that he should have ' associated to any extent with a girl of the social status of Miss Letitia Duncan. Do 1 know the true story of his love affair, and why he never mar ried? Yes, 1 do; and now, since so ab surd and ridiculous a story has been put into circulation, I deem it NOTHING BUT MERE JUSTICE to contradict it, and the best way to do this is no doubt to tell the sad "and ro mantic truth. In his youth his heart was won by the charms of a beautiful, attractive girl, Miss Coleman, who like himself, resided in Lancaster. She was one of the well known and aristo cratic Coleman family, whose vast es tates and the Cornwell Iron works near Lebanon, Pa., which they then con trolled, rendered them one of the wealthiest in the country. She met his advances with the warmest affection and they were soon be throthed and were counted one of the handsomest couples in all the country around. At first the course of true love ran smoothly enough, but later the storm which was to wreck his happiness began to gather. Some time after the engagement had been an nounced Mr. Buchanan was obliged to go out of town on a business trip. He returned in a few days and casually stopped in to see my aunt, Mrs. William Jenkins, with whose husband, and in deed with the whole family, he was on terms of INTIMATE FRIENDSHIP. (By the way, Aunt Jenkins was the builder and original owner of "Wheat land," Buchanan's famous home.) With her was staying her sister, Miss Grace Hubley, a daughter, of Gen. Hubley, a revolutionary officer, a pretty and charming young lady. From this inno cent oall the whole trouble arose. A young lady thoughtlessly, some say maliciously, told Miss Coleman of it and thereby excited her jealousy. She was, 'as she. thought, righteously in dignant that he should visit any one be fore coming to her. On the spur of the moment she sat down. and penned an angry note, saying that since he was so thoughtless of her feelings and so indif ferent as to seeming her, he could not love her as she desired to .be loved. She consequently released him from his engagement. This she sent in hot haste, the note being handed him while he was in the court house. Per sons who saw him receive it remarked afterward that they noticed him turn pale when he read it. It was all a foolish lover's quarrel. Both were proud and one was hasty. The young girl no doubt expected her lover to hurry around to sue for pardon. Mr. Buchanan was a proud man. The large fortune of the young lady was to him only another barrier to his trying to persuade h«.r to reconsider her rejection of himself and so the matter stood, the fair girl grieving yet unwilling to ac knowledge herself in the wrong, the gentleman • STANDING ON HIS DIGNITY and allowing things to take their course. It might have been— no doubt would have been— fixed up if a strange fatality had not intervened. A few days after the quarrel a party to go to Philadelphia to attend an opera was arranged, and Miss Coleman was included In the invi tation. They went down into tbe city, but when the time for going to the opera had arrived Miss Coleman, on the plea of indisposition, remained at the hotel. ' A merry evening was spent, and the gay party returned to their rooms. One of the girls hastened to Miss Coleman's room, eager to tell her of the evening's pleasure, and found her cold and white in death. It was an awful shock to all and caused no end of talk at that time. It was even intimated that in her despair she might have in some way hastened the end, but as to the truth I cannot say. It was never very clearly brought out. Mr. Buchanan was naturally greatly overcome with grief. He wrote to her father, begging the privilege of being allowed to be one of the mourn ers at the funeral. I once saw the note myself, but Mr. Coleman, smarting under his great loss, and, as was only natural, however illogical, laying much of the blame on his daughter's lover, re turned the letter without any answer. This sad and pathetic experience LEFT AN INDELIBLE MARK on Buchanan's life. As you know, he never married. We and "all who knew him well know that he cherished the memory of his lost love until his dying day. He did not become a misanthrope. On the contrary, he was extremely fond of woman's society, always appreciating beauty or brightness or talent to a re markable degree. He was always sur rounded by his chosen friends of the gentle sex, and was constantly Inviting them to dine with him, or to entertain ments of various kinds. In his manner to them he was courtly and compli mentary, and made himself quite a favorite socially, but as to any other at tachments of a serious nature, I am sure whatever may have been reported at different times, there was not the slightest foundation for them. Such stories as that in this morning's paper are outrageous, and I am only too glad to be able to correct it. it's true all the same. [Miss Blanche Nevin exhibits considerable heroism in broadly and flatly denying the Globe's story of Buchanan's love. There is no doubt under the sun of the truth of the narrative. Miss Duncan's family was influ ential and wealthy and Miss levin's slur on their social status is in bad taste. Can Miss Nevin support her fairy tale by good proof. The Globe can produce the original letters, watch ana books to back the story, and they are ojven to inspec tion at any time by any person who desires to see them. The proof is clear and jcon vinciug.. Letitia Duncan was Buchanan's first love and the lady . who was clearly re sponsible for Buchanan's bachelorhood. The Globe is ready and willing to test the matter by an open exhibit of the best proof the world affords.] -'^__-l_-_-i**KvE HEARD IN HUDSON. Special to the Globe. Hudson. Jan. 17.— article in to day's Globe relating to Miss Lititia EVERYBODY'S MARKET ! Read the GLOBE Wants and Use Them to Tell the People What You Want. NO. 18. Duncan has attracted considerable no tice here from the fact that she was for many years a resident of this city. She came to Hudson in the spring of 1851 from Erie, Pa., in company with Ezekiel Chambers and wife, and resided hero until 1859 or 1 _ JO, when she went to Lake City, Minn. It was understood that she was an aunt of Mrs. Cham bers—had taken care of her when a child and assisted in taking care of household affairs, etc. It was during this time that Mr. Buchanan was elected president. Mrs. Chambers be came a widow, went to California and again married and now resides in San Francisco. JOS IK HOLMES. She Tells Her Story Regarding the Fidelity Bank Frauds. Cincinnati, Jan. 17.— Something of a sensation was created in the Hopkins trial in the United States court to-day when Miss Josie Holmes, the exchange clerk of the late Fidelity bank and Har per's confidential secretary, was called to the witness stand. She delivered her testimony with no apparent reluctance, and was self-possessed, clear and busi ness-like in all her statements. She ex plained how the questionable drafts used in the wheat deal were made, by saving that Hopkins would bring Hoy t, the broker, to her desk and tell her to make out the exchange and he (Hop kins) would give her his check, which he told her to take to Harper to have it made good. She told one after another of numerous letters of credit, drafts, etc., which she wrote or prepared at Hopkins' suggestion, but for which nothing was ever given except Hopkins' memorandum check. Once when Hop kins asked her in the director*' room to fill out the credit ticket for Irwin., Greene & Co.f or _____», President Swift came in, and Mr. Hopkins asked her to go to her desk to complete the work. She had frequent conversations with Hopkins about the wheat deal ami about the price of wheat. He bought 50,000 bushels for her She supposed it was a present, for she gave nothing for it. He used to tell her how much she was making as wheat went up. She wanted to sell at 94 cents, but Hopkins advised her to hold. Soon after it went . down. Being asked if she had any memorandum of that purchase.she said: "No, I destroyed it when the market broke 20 cents a bushel." She went on to tell how she wrote telegrams at Hop kins' dictation concerning the wheat deal, and in many other ways connected him with the transactions. An effort was made by the defense to show that Harper bought the 50,000 bushels of wheat that stood in her name, but she maintained that Mr. Hopkins told her all she knew about it, and that he man aged the matter. . Her cipher letters to Harper were produced and - she iden _- fied them. One of them was read to the jury. She told how Mr. Hopkins' son obtained those letters. He was the mes senger and betrayed his trust. She never mentioned his name in speaking of him, but always referred to him as "Mr. Hopkins' son." KEEP'S BODY. It Is Exhumed and Identified by His Alleged Wife. Long Island City, N. _ _ Jan. 17.— Coroner Robinson, of . this city, last night granted the application of Mrs. Mary T. Keep to - have the body of Charles D. Keep, the late proprietor of the Wall Street News, exhumed, and is sued a summons to the authorities of Calvary cemetery to open the grave and take up the casket. This morning the order was carried out and the casket taken to a receiving vault, where in the presence of Mrs. Keep, Coroner Robin son and a reporter, it was opened. • Though the body was evidently' in ; an advanced state of decomposition, the features were perfect almost as in life, and Mrs. Keep immediately recognized the body as that of her deceased hus band. Being satisfied that her theory that Mr. Keep was still alive was wrong, Mrs. Keep requested that the body bo kept in the receiving vault for a few days, until she could see the coroner, and district attorney of Monmouth county, New Jersey, in relation to the holding of an investigation to ascertain whether Mr. Keep was the victim of foul play or not. Immediately after wards Mrs. Keep fainted and remained unconscious for some time. A detect ive, said to have been sent by Mrs. Keep No. 2, was present,but did nothing ' further than watch the proceedings. A Big Mining Case. Chicago, Jan. 17.— Judge Collins to day dissolved the injunction issued In the case Edwin B. Palmer against Jo-' seph W. Haskin, Dec. 15, 1886, and dis missed the case tor want of equity. The case was one of considerable import* ance and was brought by Palmer t_ compel the defendant to deliver to him stock in the "Atlas Mining company of the value of $240,000. Haskin and' others claimed they developed thy mines, which are thirty-two miles northwest from Tucson, Ariz., and or ganized the Atlas Mining company, th . capital stock of which was __OUO OMfc Haskin was the original owner of tho mines and agreed to give half the stock to the organizers if they were success-' ful. The decision is regarded as acorn-' plete refutation of the charges made against Mr. Haskin when the injunc tion was granted. Ran His Own Case. Cincinnati, Jan. 17.— A special from Lawrenceburg, Ind., says that Krona. the eccentric Swede who was last nighl arrested by a Chicago detective foi swindling at Peru, lud., conducted his own case in the magistrate's court and was discharged, as the statute of limita tions came to his relief. He showed fa miliarity with the court proceedings. He then compromised his obligations to the Peru people by giving his notes for 8500. which he said he would redeem Jan. 25. Finding that his mother-in-law had been talking to the detective he as saulted her and drove her screaming " from the house. Later he attempted suicide, but was prevented by member* of his family. ' ". ' v Attempted Wife Murder. Cincinnati, Jan. 17.— Otto Sander, alias William Franklin, a brickmaker, is accused of having made a wilful at tempt to kill his wife, to whom he was married only three months ago. They have been living apart for some time. To-day he asked his wife to come to see him at his mother's house. She came and the two were in his room nearly an hour, when two pistol shots were heard and Sander soon afterward left the house. His mother called the police and the young wife was found by them on the door, bleeding to death from a pistol shot wound in her mouth. She was taken to the hospital and her case is said to be hopeless. m» Minnesota Patents. Washington. Jan. 17.— The follow ing Minnesotans were granted patents, to .lay: Frederick B. Barrows, Duluth, r coal scoop; John Cable,; cable elevator and self-loading conveyor: Daniel T. . Denton. Tower, miner's grip for tram cars; Willis M. Derby, Minneapolis, lubricator: Harvey M. Little. St. Paul,' track scraper for railways; Clarence ; Thresher, Winona, feathering middle wheel; Henry M. Young, Minneapolis, i apparatus for preventing fires.