Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-11-11
Boreas' Blasts.

Boreas' Blasts.
Whew! what do you think of this?
King Boreas introduced winter to
western North Dakota, at least, on Sun
day. 1t was not a formal introduction.
Winter took North Dakota by the hand,
acknowledged the introduction and
seemed to be overcome with pleasure at
meeting her once more. In fact it fairly
howled with delight.
Sunday morning dawned cloudy and
cold. The air was raw, and portended
snow. O%vercoats and caps we're quoted
at above par, with summer clothing at a
discount. There wa a wind of p~ercepti-
bic and noticeable GOODNESS. It whistled
dismally around corners, and walked
through the outer garments of a pedes-
trian like COWS through a wire fence.
At about 10 o'clock a few feathery flakes
of snow, the first of the season, began to
fall. At first slowly, and then thicker
and faster, until the air was filled with
the white specks, each vying with. an
other in it's haste to reach the ground.
Soon the ground became covered and
was white. The wind freshened, caught
up the flakes, and filled the air with a
whirling and swirling mass. The pedes-
trian shivered and buttoned his overcoat
a little tighter. The snow no longer re-
manned where it fell, but was caught up
and blown in a binding mass, hither
and thither, until locomotion became
attended with difficulty. The few per-
SONS whom the storm found upon the
street hurried to the most convenient
places where could be found warmth
and shelter, and noon found the streets
almost deserted, with perhaps here and
there am unfortunate, who fought
against the blast and who disappeared
into the first shelter.
And the wind, instead of decreasing
in violence, increased in force and in
bitterness of cold; the snow continued to
fall and be swirled along by the gusts.
And at 3 o'clock, a blizzard of re-
spectacle size announced in no gentle
tones that winter had begun.
It was n of those days, when a
roaring fire within was a pleasant con-
trast to the roaring wind without. And
fires were closely courted everywhere.
The storm increased in violence as
night approached. The coming dark
ness rendered the whistling of the wind
still more dismal; and rendered the cozy
fireplace still more cheerful by contrast.
It was probably as sudden and severe
an introduction to winter as is often ex-
p%erienced. Saturday was almost as
warm as midsummer. But in the
afternoon, a drop of nearly a half-inch
in the mercurial column of the barome-
ter presaged the storm which followed.
King Boreas came to the conclusion
that it was his turn to play. And it is
needless to remark that he played.
The storm, from reports, was general,
extending to the state line on the west,
and also a goodly distance east. Sun
day evenings train pulled into the
station three hours late. And No. 1 of
yesterday, arrived M hour and thirty
minutes behind schedule time, drawn by
two engines, the cars covered with snow
and ice-the whole resembling some
huge animal, whose breathings had been
frozen simultaneously with their ex-
piration. Snow was drifted in quite re-
spectacle amounts throughout the city;
the air was of an Uncomfortable crisp
ness; walking was attended with that
"crushing' sound, as the snow was
trodden under foot; roofs and sidewalks
were white, and, taken all in all, winter
has had a pretty good beginning.
North Dakota Flour.
Probably as great an advertisement
for North Dakota and North Dakota
wheat and -four was to have been found
in a solid trainload, twenty. one cars Of
-four which went from the mills Of Bis
marck and Mandan Tuesday, direct for
London, England. The train was APP