The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-06

- blizzard OF '73." and some short
--.,-iors given in the papers carried
,srs into the very heart Of that
--.s,l tempest and caused me 10 re
81, -be most vivid manner, the whole
.,. three days experience. have
~ many similar storms Of snow but
.- in any which had the same sus-
..,ss inexorable fury.
q. matter Of fact, blizzard on the
..-.4 corresponds 10 tempest on the
-,bi-h never effects the sailor twice
f,. alike. Each norther seems to
character OF its own; one may be
-- sharp. hlgh-keyed and spiteful;
4 ..as- slow. steady. relentless, wearing
..- urisoned people by day and after
o. If storm seige. while another would be
-..,,. appalling with the suddenness and
4 z-i-s weight of its snow and the inten-
s.-y of It's cold.
T.sr again each storm has its special
-,.oe attack. one threatening. mutter-
and lowering for days. while another,
-. THE Great Blizzard" leaps like
..rsine Tiger on the traveller. Il Is this
.-.r, which is so destructive to life.
,.r,;rr almost instantly out Of a clear
10. IL 6uds the traveller far from home,
.huaren at school ami the husband
,,7rrspared for the assault. Such
-- -bs character OF the blizzard Ill teD-
ruary. 1873. .,,,. a.+s tbe
An day on that memorable aat ,. t .,ls
-'gbbors in their sleighs streameu py the
dollhouse where we youngsters SAT rs
,snine "wistfully TO the music q NJ
No EVERYONE wac tempted out py the
-'rt.r, sunshine ana the warm south
r5 Farmers went by with wooc-rachS'
F.. ,',.'n5 far the timber which grew along me
- several miles below. others 1lhgleu
E /, light sleighs, with their wives
-..5 beside them, on the way 10 the
q ,orss i'm the neighborins town
an 5ov until half-past three, the sun
. In. ,-,rr, and the caves dripped merrl-
Tba windows to the south were open
~ he children played without mlttehs-
TN sbout quarter to four the scholals
4 4, me north side of the room looking out.
IN, : wide seamless, gigantic dome u
80. bl,e cloud rising, swift ominous
say .tss1ass sweeping on 70 the south
NJ he shadow of night. At IT'S upper
- tbsre was q beautiful fringe OF sill
.-5 nbite vapor which was in motion.
q .,o,,srine to and fro, shimmering IKE
e,osf Pyt the mass Of the cloud hau
dense sinister look. .,,, -tiri,,e-
IA o'clock the sun was stu shnllhs'
B - .,,o sdge of the cloud had crept' OF
4 - rronerlv. shot across the suns ulsc
,r5 irs lights was growing pale ana colu.
In few minutes more the wind IRON Iile
. south ceased-there was HlOiilSH' Va
.raathless pause-and then porhe poN
-,,i 1or+b wind, the streaming clouds
- ron ms Large flakes of snow,
. Damn and wide-winged, drove IN ieNel
49, irto fine face of the traveller, sticking
Il =. ~ clothing and cheek and melting rap
.uy II was not vet cold enough TO freeze
snt me thermometer must have been rap
an, rising We dashed home merry with
the beautiful snow.
P,, me- time we had reached home,
baif mile away, the wind was a gaze the
snow, a vast binding cloud driving through
the air with a peculiar faint WhlspeI-iS
murmur. eddying and scurrylng IN Ian
tsstic ana beautiful lines as the Wlhu
sported with it. Darkness came on al
most instantly and the wind constantly
increased in power. We now felt its Sc
rousness and hurried to finish the chores.
When the men returned about O'CLOCK,
the familiar faces of the horses were lost
In their thick coating of ice and snow
cicles of frozen foam hung from thelr
Inns their names and tails We're a clumsy
mass of half-melted snow. The load OF
wood was a mountain of stainless snow
pillars. and father in his great coal looked
. ike a polar bear. We thought II couiu
not last coming from that quarter.
As We were rubbing the ice from the tet-
locks Of the tired horses, the men pre-
in
storm. The hired man said he never seen
It snow SO fast but once before. We
youngsters enjoyed the strangeness OF IL
all. the impenetrableness Of the cloud oil
snow. the dancing light of the lanterns
The whirl of the flakes in the red hght
which streamed from the barn door, and
The brisk, excited talk of the men,
Teams went by with the wood, the
shouting drivers sitting on the leeward
side of their load, leaving the horses to
ind the road. Just as we We're about
starting for the house a team drove INTO
the yard containing three persons.
Is this John Bartle's?' called voice
through the darkness
No; its Robert Grahams, but you're
Just as welcome. You're Arson Bond, l
take it?"
Yes what do you think of this? Can
We ever cross Wind Prairie?"
l should say not. You just get out
and stay all night. They amt man liv-
'ng can find his way across that stretch
prairie such night as this. Drive
your sleigh to the door and put your wo-
man in the house and then come back
ana put up your team
lhey were neighbors who had settled
'uFtner or to the north, and across a
stretch OF priarie to cross which in such
d storm would be almost certain death.
4ney wisely took fathers advice and
soon We closed the barn and went to the
House 10 eat hot supper, over which the
men told stories of storms (the word
oA1zard' was not common them to
"nch We boys listened with consuming in
crest During the remainder of tho eve
mug We joked and sang and played
sdHes' our merrimeut intensified by the
connection outside
EuI When we went to bed at 10 o'clock,
-oI one trembled with awe. I had a pre-
.'o'ti-ion tnat this was TO be something
1.-l@IaHe!ed 1t appeared to me as one
~ rose trightful disturbances in the or
'I-ess Of nature which make man
~ leel himself the insect he really is
Nia not shape itself into these words,
..,, an a"ed silence came upon nc. The
-. g.' "eSan to make itself felt, and the
, ,.l voice began to send q thrill of
'.Y' 70 the listeners heart. Striking
~ IL did through our little house. freez-
our food within a few feet of the