Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1890-09-01


was done the winter would make u,
for lost time. We didn't pay much at
tention to the warning, laughing i
away as an idle jest, and soon il dropped
out of mind entirely The 2Sd day o.
August, 176S, was the hottest day eve
knew. The sun raised blisters on the
street pavements, and wells a thousand
for any person to be where the sur
could get good square lick at him. II
he did he would shrink up and die right
there. About o'clock in the evening
light breeze came up, and the people
ventured out. In the western sky
there was just such a cloud as / pointed
out to you a few minutes ago. We
We found out later on By o'clock that
evening the atmosphere was cool and
pleasant, and every one went TO bed to
catch a little sleep, for the intense heat
of the previous nights had driven sleep
from our eyes. In the morning there was
six feet of snow all over the town.
Every bit of running water was now
frozen, wells and cisterns We're frozen
solid, all grain and vegetable life were
killed, and flowers withered before the
snow like bananas before my friend
Hart Several houses where the win
dows had been left opened We're half
filed with snow. 1t was a cracking
cold morning, the mercury was 60 degs.
below zero and it seemed to be growing
chillier every minute.
"About IL o'clock a high wind came
up, and the snow was piled in drifts
about the city. 1t was banked up
against the Lutheran church to a
height of 20 feet. As if that was not
enough, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
the snow commenced falling again.
1t did not come down like plain, every
day winter snow. There were no flakes,
but spheres about the size of base balls.
They We're as hard as chilled steel un' ii
they struck the earth, and then they
burst, not because of the hardness of
the ground alone-though it was frozen
so hard that it could not be broken
with dynamite cartridges-but there
was a peculiar atmospheric condition
that was heightened when the snow
ball came in contact with the earth,
and this brought about the bursting
mentioned previously. There was not
tha iaast ssif IF Il i
attack on the English language that
But thousand dfnerenitS e,i,rs otsaisss ssa s
and dashed from the fragments. 1t
was the most wonderful pyrotechnic
display / ever witnessed 1t was broad
daylight, too. The result of this
unnatural shower of snowballs
was that over fifty feet of snow was
piled upon that eity'-
''Where-where were the peopleT
asked Sergt. Joyce in voice faint from
emotion
Dead Every one of them dead. In
that city of 25, 900 souls not a single
person escaped. They were smothered
by the snow or killed by the pellets
that came from the clouds. No living
thing, not even a dog, escaped, and
when the glad sunshine came ont again
and melted the snow, the raging waters
washed the buildings from the face of
the earth, and to this day not a sign can
be found of the once beautiful and en-
terprising city"
At this moment a commotion oc-
Cured at the front door, Sergt. John
Lowe rushed breathlessly into the room
with the intelligence that man had
been frozen to death on Blake street,
near Indiana avenue, and the club filed
out to capture the body before it could
get away -Indianapolis News.