Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1901-07-18

ers and chilled him IL bone,
and drove him back "a 81 .fmth
at his fireside. 0nt 81 6irfy.
one days in the month, eere
only seven in which outd Iabor
could be done 10 comfort.
Corn was planted end ||Snled
only 20 rot IN the grounl SFl
ems we're made and rem '.'.. 1. :''''. i
buds and fruits that hasI escaped
the frost in April, froze upon the
trees. Ice formed and . meIancho-
ly hue appeared to seal the doom Of
all vegetable life.
The month of June was ushered
in and the dropping hopes Of the
people again revived, for .ssurely
they would have some warm weath.
or in this month";" Garden and
field crops we're again planted and
sowed. Vain delnsion There 10
no record Of . June 80 cold. Again
the Frost King rode over the land
With his wintry minions, leaving q
broad tail of desolation behind
Winter reigned instead of summer.
In Vermont snow fell to the depth
OF from elk to ten inches; New
York was covered to the depth OF
three inches, while Maine aud New
Hampshire had a corresponding
depth.
Every green herb, every garden
vegetable, every species Of shrub
and foliage we're killed outright.
Where you looked on the hillside
for the crimson berry. You found
the black frost; where on the tree
for the blushing apple Or pear. you
found the dead and shriveled frnit,
while the harvest fields lay under q
canopy Of snow and sleet.
. Abont seven years ago an old gen.
tleman named James Winchester,
q resident Of Vermont, gave an in
teresting account 81 Che ersat snow
storm on the 18th or June, during
the prevalence of which his uncle
was frozen to death. We give the
account in the old gentleman's 3 YER
sion
81 was IA years old then, and
lived in Vermont, where have al
ways lived, and where that memo.
rsble season was at its very worst,
as in the other New England States.
In June snow fell bat 5 inches deep,
and in New York, Pennsylvania
and New Jersey it was no where
deeper than 8 inches. In Vermont
it was 10 inches on the level. /
mean the great snow Of June IL.
Snow fell several times during that
month, and ice formed every day
in the month. In fact, there were
snow and ice in every mouth Of
1916.
"That snow storm of June II
was one Of the severest ones / ever
saw, even in the depth OF winter in
that locality of severe suows. An
uncle of mine had some sheep in a
back pasture lot. To get TO that
lot he had to 60 through piece Of
woods Tor nearly o mile. Tbs
weather had been very cold eli
through June. The big storm OF
the 10th began along about noon,
and my uncle started after dinner
to 60 to the sheep pasture to tx up
q shelter of some kind for the sheep.
No one had an idea, cold and &C.
centric as the season had been at
that time, that we could hare q fall
OF snow that would amount to any.
thing at that time Of the year.
was ct my uncle's when he left
home to go to the sheep lot, and as
he went ont Of the door he said to
his wife in q jocular way
/" sIf I'm not back in an hour,
call the neighbors and start them
after me. June is q bad month to
get buried in the SNOW, especially
when it gets to be so near the month
Of July
"Nothing more was thonRht Of
the matter. The snow increased
in fury, and by night it hsd drift
ed so that the roads were almost
impossible, but even then, and
when it grew dark, none Of us fell
uneasy about uncle. The weather
had become bitter cold. When
night Get in in earnest, and there
was no sign Of uncle's return, bis
wife sent me and my cousin, uhc
was two years younger than me. to
alarm the neighbors and tell them
that We believed uncle had been