Dead On The Plains

Terrible List of Persons Frozen to Death in Southwestern Kansas Men Perish Within a Few Yards Help – Mother and Children Dead KANSAS CITY, Jan. 15 – Specials from Kansas say that the list of casualties resulting from the late blizzard grows alarmingly...

Kansas Blizzard 1886

KANSAS CITY Jan. 8 – A snow storm vastly more severe than the recent blizzard is raging on the plains to the west.  No western trains arrived or departed last night.  Telegraphic communication with points west has been greatly interrupted, and many railroad...

Jacob Troup Starved To Death

Jacob Troup starved to death at Lima, Ohio and his remains were buried at public expense.  He had a son in Kansas worth $50,000, who refused to recognize or aid him.  The Goshen Weekly News, Goshen, Indiana.  January 15, 1886.  (c) Transcribed by Darren McMannis for...