The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-12-31
THE blizzard.
A Graphic Personal Reminiscenes hrs0 q,
Lips OF u Minnesota Farmer.
From the Detroit Free Press.

A Graphic Personal Reminiscenes ffs0 tAs
Lips OF u Minnesota Farmer.
From the Detroit Free rrem.
HANCOCK, Dec. 1O-I came out here three
Sn sess To It. PAUL Yr lumber and Worked
oil summer putting, up house aud barn. In the
f Ser ssf ss ess Rsf h iG
Tss.s f's Vent Tss az
holidays. brought her back with me: By the
pat .s & .na we had do ss %
married life. a few things were wanted tor
sleigh. md Mabel and | drove. 70 ths village.
due north from my house six miles. A pleas
air was warm and balmy; It seemed Las, a. I,
nS fse ysas has bu. one street being msrel,
sarSs q 70 sSd about e1s rods rail-
rond track. They are mainly used for stores.
s. SSye hr
peared to bS in doing some shopping: AZ, ASouti
merchant, who had stepped out moment
before said 70 US; Il don't Iike to drive away y
announces that II has reached Morris. That's
lSsty % sy r%% sI,s sSs ssss
time to spsre II you are going home ne to,dnH
purcndbeN
got outside the store the first thing that at.
tracted my attention WIS 1.-The the TACT snst q az
s%da oS S SiS
the fsintest, suggestion Of a storm apparent
snyWhrSe Before we had got mile 11G%
Wo we're still two miles from home when sud-
e eeHs ana e c iii IN ss monent dsrRees. q
smoke swept over everything Then remep-
VIZ liz ras. ns
s sm Il: s Sssfa ~ pass:
ana IN So.n WE
prairie We could see our house; ssyp FRA 1t came
dss q TGr x the SSnSs Il
shs 1 Wind da.hes the s1llsbls. from your
Me s S s sSS Dc h'ar
Grst snowflake ieil could not SOC my horses;
S where bser e. the Should get
ss T Se hut h' Il Nc
II NIPPLE ss:as
tried TO peer downward beside the sleigh ana
see see the earth beneath a snowbani. could
feel a motion e the sleigh - e, that knew the
s tsnss' tried 70 ASK my Wife il She was suffer-
ing. but could not hear my own words.
vensd pst We, A." the time saw the storm ap-
preaching and th i moment Il str%cx US the
Mers h"% s @ps Il
Ss sny hone GSaS Ike Rd4 s ss e5 e
e. s ana f T.el ss ss de.S isn't ss @
that was freezing. The horses we're .tiii
hoars S since the storm had shut Us IN and va:
got out Of the path and that We were lost, on
the prairie when there came q sudden iuli q
ing. snow, but / could see objects about mf.
and it didn't tax long for mo 10 ain tE9t
we we're IN a the barn and were safe ma .hs
horses Ind found their way back; 4 think By
nesasn 'a das 3h that sRoa sppsa
again in u thousand years.
Although we had reached the barn. We were
ns i was tss hOHSs % ,;. ven
i nd she %r aas Then told her 3 1 rs%sin
1t is difficult for any one to believe that in a
ndnX stern no 60 tSTeaPty yards Il
stry II some time!
Do you see that pump ] stumbled over it.
i MGnY sei the ffs had r9m
that pump | would never again have found
either house or barn. knew that tho handle
shat Pn the
I raised tho handle and felt for my bearings.
let 60 OF the pump handle and plunged toward
a %S M %as
out Of the question. Aiter got into the house
| took ball OF twine; tied one and to
back The barn and BY fSoWns The ssrnr
We reached the house again. For three days
and AM nights thersaftSE neither Of US even OPENED
could not see the barn for the snow had Piled
in between the house and barn. so deep that it
On the east side Of the house, however. there
was very little snow. The shovel happened to
be in the house. and the little woman and I
but we had 70 carry Every shovsial Of The The sao!
taken out Of the tunnel through the house and
We're the horses ali right when you got to
You can safely bet they were glad to see mo
even eaten the bedding from their stalls It
took me nearly all the, rest OF the winter to
shoy vel the STOW w., out Of the barn, .,.
In these storms 7"
To be caught out on the prairie by. q blizzard
settler has been here one winter. it's a sly old
blizzard that catches him. No so the newcomers.
They cannot imagine that there Is danger at all
times. Three people were lost that day In this
vicinity one OF them a woman who had been
oyer oyer across the prairie about I mile to see
immin ent. she started for home on foot. She
never Not half way there.
When was her body found?'
In the spring. when the snow melted.
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