News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1883-02-01
4 WESTERN BLIZZARD.
4 DnkotnrM an Describes One J"st as He
saw 1t.

stepped out a moment before, said to us:
81 don't like to drive away my custom
ers, but a blizzard is coming from the
west, and it is coming fast. The tele-
graph announces that i has reached
Morris. That is forty miles from here,
but it is coming at the rate of forty miles
per hour, so you've got no time to spare
if YOU are going home to-day
He rolled up our purchases as he
spoke, and appeared in a hurry to get
rid of us. When we got outside the
store the first thing that attracted my
attention was the fact that of all the
teams in the street when we arrived not
one excepting mine remained. Every
body had scudded for home. Even
then 1 did not hurry. The sun was still
shining brightly, with not the faintest
suggestion of storm apparent anywhere.
Before we got a mile from town l had
forgotten all about the coming storm,
and the horses were Jogging at their
will.
We were still two miles from home
and the air grew cold and chill in a
moment. A darkness as of smoke
swept over everything. Then [ remem-
bercd why we were going home, and [
gave the horses the whip in earnest, lash
ing them into a run. Away off to the
west there appeared to be leaden wall
sweeping toward us. There was a hum
III the air. A light breeze sprang up, |
grew stronger and i'll one minute became
a gale. The wall came down with rail |
road speed, the roar of its approach
every instant growing louder From the |
top of a roll in the prairie we could see
our house, and it came pretty near being
our last glimpse of it.
No words will ever convey an intclli- |
gent idea of the blizzard of the frightfrll
roar with which it rolls down upon yOu
the bowling and kissing of the wind. If
you try to speak the wind dashes the
syllables from your lips 50 quickly that
you do not hear your own words. In
thirty seconds from the time the first
snowflake fell | could not see my horses.
The atmosphere appeared to be all snow,
and every flake of If WAS in = hurry TO
oct somewhere bnEora thn rnst sbouId
get there. | use the word ''fakc," but
that is wrong. No flakes could be dis.
tinguished. The whole atmosphere was
flied with one big flake that hemmed
us in on all sides Although Mabel's
/ l. - /
could not see her features, and could
| only dimlv see her form. | tried to peer
downward beside the SLEIGH and see the
track. but I might as well have tried TO
see the earth beneath q snow bank, +
could fool = motion to the sleigh. so that
l iucw the horses were still moving
The cold was intense ! tried t" ask my
WV" II she was suffering "ut '""l't moi
H'll my Own N'''''
O''iiAl 'I'' '"o u NC minutes 'II'''
~ lei eiieo' "o' :sl1 'lio IL =.
'tol !, 'llo''1-lll- 1'l-e1 'l,o llloIlel-
'ti ',0N ''o 'ii0 ii'''' ''Al ~ 'lt0 '0P
Vi 'iieIL q oC''' 'o VIC "CiG i1ot iii'''i = q
q IN IN I'm Wv ll0t ',e-I- tJ2
slbIe 1of the horSeS 10 keep eile track
NO one couIo nVe ''ll hoI'r LII II'C STORM.
Inc only nope was LII 'lle noISe7 pein8
apIe 10 keep 10 'I"ch IL"U was oelh6
purleu oeePel anu ''eepeL every lil7'"ii''
IL - LII PIe'''''i' u oi' sum anu ileeAG -
ue''th' III zen minutes was cllllleo
Ihe horses were Stlll moving, and al
thouSh couId hoI see tllenl, laShed
llehl WIN the WhlP. IL seemed hourS
Slli0T 'ilo 0.ol IL L CIV. 'li'., 10 ' anu
was oeColilin9 ooii' iilCe' 'il"U 'iio lioloe0
h"'' 6ot "''' u .iio l'''ii ''il'' 'ii''' "eio
lost on the prarle, when there came sud
den lull OF the herce WIND. Ihe alf was
still trllI OF Whlrlln8 snow, but could
see objects about me, and 1t dldn take
long Tor me TO ascertain that we were III
the barn and were safe. had left the
barn doors open IN the morning, and the
horses had found their way back; think,
by instinct, but my helShoorS tlllhk II
was sheer acclden'' ana oeclfre that II
"oul'll happen "6"'ll Ill l" IllouS""o
years:
Al'liou6n we li','' lo''Iie't 'iIG ""l"' We
were iloI Ii 'iio muse So'' 01li 'li0
Darn 10 tile mousse 10 t'"oo' twenty yai',9'
out as lar as seeing IL was coilcerleu' llle
mousse might as wei nave oeeh III tlle
moon. The little woman helped me I'M
harness the horses and put them INTO
their stalls. linen toId hef TO remain
Whero She was, ul'' li"oe " oIeah lor Iile
mousse. 1t Is ollilcliV lor anyone 10 ne
lleVe tlliI LII ollii'llL8 Stoilil Ie cS'lillot
go twenty yards Ill Il Iile S'lilclehtly
StfnSht 10 llllo " HOUSE, ouU ny II sonic
time ,,
10 So'. 90 'ii''' Pt'-lP "',:lll',lo' y
o'ei II. - % '"oi,'J Ao1' ~ ',io iiol'U VI y,
INC p1''il liolii 'ilo '''ili ~ 'li0 iio,l'o 1,
II li"''il .'-ooi ioi 'i,''' h''iilf I "'''i''
never again nave louha el'her mouse OF
barn. L knew that the handle OF that
and that 1t was not over ten yards away.
L raised the handle and telt Tor my bear