The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-02-10

1t would be strict justice if the
Western press should follow the de-
PRAYED construction of the golden rule
which bids us to do unto Others MS others
have done unto MS, and I'LL their col
unns for the next two weeks with start
ious capitals. The New York Blizzard"
For the storm which hes sGen general
throughout the East, and from which
hosts of reports are now received daily.
has every characteristic of the biz
zard' OF the West. 1t is II raging fury
of binding snow. with extremely high
winds and low temperatures. Railroads
throughout New York and New Eng.
land are blocked as thoroughly as were
any lines in Dakota. AT a center as
large and important ~ SyrGcase, traffic
is at & s:andstill. Trains are blocked in,
and relief trains make bW. II few miles an
hour ON tl,eir way 10 rescue. On the
Erie, farmers ere hauling wo d md
water to keep imprisoned passengers
from ptrishins. AT even the more i'm
portaut towns, hotels are crowded With
snow bound travellers. and there is much
discomfort and no little suffering.
Northern P~ennsylvania is in II similar
condition. Northern New England is
fairly cut off from the rest OF the world.
and VIC shall not not know for some time
what the work of the storm has been in
the secluded counlrr districts. The dis
patches frcm Boston are couched in ex-
actiy the same language as those sent
out n week ego from poiHts in the far
ther West. When the reports show
temperatures of from 1 to 10 degrees be.
low zero at points along the New Eng
land coast, we may understand the in.
tense severity Indicated in q region
where, to the cold. are added the pene,
trating dampncss and the biting winds
of the seaboard. AS yet there are only
scattering reports of lives lost. When
the country is heard from, we shsli
doubtless learn that the ''blizzard' has
done its work as cffcctuall in one sec
ton us in the other. Western people
have no disposition to glory in the mis-
fortunes of their brothers in the East, CT
even to give undue prominence to the
just as well As s;assdy retribution which
has followed the volume of Dissertations
on Western climate. The point to
which they do wish to give emphasis is
that the ~"blizzard,'' MS a distinct!vely
Western phenomens. is II myth Os,
wego, N. Y, sends word that there WAS
a binding now storm. with the Their
mometcr 10 degrees falow zero, and the
wind blowing go miles an hour. What
do those three conditions make up? A
"blizzard,'' nothing nor nor less. That
is what we call it. That is what our
Eastern friends name ii when it happens
in Dakota, and that is what it must be in
New York and New Enxlssd. Or course
it is, because this is precisely the same
storm that swept over the West n week
earlier. and reached the Atlantic coast
in its VI character as distinctly as ii ii
had taken a through ticks. a1:d y vesti-
bnle train. Tie point of fact. which
people are so slow to recognize. j. TINT
there is not one sor; of winter in the
West. and another sort for precisely the
same latitude in the Ea,i. Storms like
this are continental. Their conseqlen.
ces are more serious West than i.a,t for
two reasons, aud only two. The great
plains of the West give q frcer sweep To
the wind. whose violence is somewhat
broken in passing the intervening h.!ly
country: and the newncS5 and sparscr,s SO
of settlement in the former region en-
surcs somewh 81 more Of danger and pri-
Walton. The latter alone. including MS it
does lees substantial dwellings and a less
complete provision of the necessarici of
w,atc, life, will account for Whatever
difference there may be In tie fatality
Incident to the great storm of Iaa;ary.
1888. Now let us hear less of the hliz-
Yards of the Northwest, md nf the
dangcrs of settlement in u country which
is liable tn precisely the same sryer!' 9
of climate as New York. Pennsylvania
and New England ST Paul P.oheer
Prdts. Jan ~.