Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1897-06-03

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Peculiar Conditions That Prevailed In the
| Year 1916.
The year 1916 was known through
out the United States and Europe as
the coldest ever experienced by any
person theu living. There are per-
sons in Northern New York who have
been in the habit of keeping diaries
for years, begun in 1910 and kept un-
broken until 1910, and from them the
following information regarding this
year without summer has been
taken:
January was so mild that most per-
sons allowed their fires to go out, and
did not burn wood except for cooking.
There were few cold days, but they
were very few. Most OF the time the
air was warm and springlike. Febru-
ary was not cold Some days were
colder than any in January, but the
weathcr'was about the same. March.
from the lst to the 9th, was inclined to
be windy. Tt came in like small lion
and Went out like very innocent
sheep.
April came in warm, but as the days
grew longer the air became colder,
and by the lst of May there was a
temperature like that of winter, with
plenty of snow and ice. In May the
young buds were frozen dead, ice
formed half an inch thick on ponds
and rivers, corn was killed, and the
corn fields We're planted again and
again, until it became too late to raise
crop. By the last of May in this
climate the trees are usually in leaf
and birds and flowers are plentiful.
When the last of May arrived in 1916
everything had been killed by the
cold.
June was the coldest month of roses
ever experienced in this latitude
Frost and ice were as common as but
tercups usually are. Almost every
green thing was killed: all fruit was
destroyed. There was seven inch
snowfall in Maine, three-inch fall in
the interior of New York state, and
the same in MASSACHUSETTS. There were
only a few moderately warm days
Every body looked, longed and waited
for warm weather, but warm weather
did not come. 1t was also dry; very
little rain fell. All summer long the
wind blew steadily from the north il
blasts laden with snow and ice
Mothers knit socks of double thickness
TO: their children, and made thicl
} mittens. Planting and shivering were
done together, and the farmers wht
worked out their taxes on the countr,
roads wore overcoats and mittens. o.
June II there was heavy fall of snow
A Vermont farmer sent flock of sheer
: of the 17th dawned with the ther
mometer below the freezing point. A
, about o'clock in the morning th
owner of the sheep started to look u
his flock. Before leaving home b.
: turned to his wife and said, jokingly
Better start the neighbors soon; it
the middle of June. and | may get los
in the snow" An hour after he lef
home terrible snow storm came. Th
snow fell thick and fast, and, as ther
was so much wind, the heecy masse
piled in great drifts along the wind
ward size of the fence and outbuild
ings. Night came and the farmer ha
not been heard of. His wife becam
| frightened and alarmed the neighbor
hood. All the neighbors joined th
searching party. On the third da,
they found him. He was living in
hollow on side hill, with both fee
, frozen; he was half covered with snow
! but alive. Most of the sheep wer
lost.
A farmer near Tewksbury, Vermont
owned a large field Of corn. He bull
/. fires around the field TO keep off tn
frost. Nearly every night he and hi
iiiCi eOOh eut LS III hCCpluS up uuc lTS
0 and watching that the corn did nc
0 freeze. The farmer was rewarde
! for his tireless labors by having tn
Y only crop of corn in the region.
+ July came in with ice and snow. O
6 the Fodrth of July ice as thick as wiz
: dow glass formed throughout Ne
England, New York, and In some part
: of the state OF Pennsylvania. India
a corn, which in some parts of the Eas
$ had struggled through May and Jun,
], gave up, froze and died.
e Tie the surprise OF everybody Augu.
e proved the worst month OF ALL "A
y most every green thing in this countr
d and Eprope was, blasted. with fros
RI Snow fell at Barnet, 80 miles fro