Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-10

The year 1916 was known +hro
the United States and Enron. esnout
coolest ever experienced by anv ro,s su0
then living. There are persons in nnr.a
ern New York who have been in ~
hablt OF Keeping diaries for years ana !.
is from the pages of an old diarv hornS
IN 1910 and kept up unbroken nnt,, 1S,o
that the following information regardae
this year without summer has Sa.e
taken: peea
January was so mild that most psrson.
allowed their fires to 10 out and did -.
burn wood except for cooking. There NV
few cold days, but they were very fon
Most of the time the air was warm ~,
sprlnglike. February was not cold so,n.
days were colder than any in Janro,r
but the weather was about tbe Co.
March, from the LIST to the 9th wos -
cilned to be kindly. 1t came in like .
small lion and went out like very inn
cent sheep. 'ADV
April came in warm, but as the aor.
grew longer the air became colder ons
by the first of May there was a tomna.
Azure like that of winter, with plenty =,
snow and ice. In May the Young brds
were frozen dead, ice formed half an inoh
thick on ponds and rivers, corn vaa
Killed, and the cornfelds were planted
again and again, until it became too lats
to raise a crop.
by the last of May In this climate tba
trees are usually in leaf and birds and
flowers are plentiful. When the last ~
May arrived in 1916 everything had been
killed by the cold.
June was the coolest month of roses
ever experienced in this latitude. Frost
and ice were as common as buttercuna
usually are. Almost every green thing
was killed. all fruit was destroyed, snow
fell ten inches deep in Vermont. There
was seyen-inch fall in the interior OF
New York State. and the same in Mas.
sachusetts. There were only a few mod.
erately warm days Everybody 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 in blasts, laden with snow
and ice. Mothers knit socks of double
thickness for their children. and made
thick mittens. Planting and shivering
were done together. and the farmers who
worked out their taxes on the country
roads wore overcoats and mittens.
On June II there was a heavy fall Of
snow. A Vermont farmer sent flock Of
sheep to pasture on June Is. The morn
ing of the 18th dawned with the Their
mometer below the freezing point. About
. O'Clock in the morning the owner Of
the sheep started to look for his flock.
Before leaving home he turned to his
wife and said, jokingly:
Better start the neighbors soon; It's
the middle of June, and | may get lost
In the snow"
An hour after he had left home a ter
ritlc snow storm came up. The snow fell
thick and fast, and as there was so much
wind the heecy masses piled in great
drifts along the windward side of the
fences and outbuildings. Night came and
the farmer had not been heard of.
His wife became frightened and alarm
ed the neighborhood. All the neighbors
Joined the searching party. On the third
day they found him. He was lying in
hollow on the side hill with both feet
frozen; he was half covered with snow,
but alive. Most of the sheep were lost.
July came in with snow and ice. On
the Fourth of July ice as thick as win
dow glass formed throughout New Eng
lend, New York, and in some parts OF
the State of Pennsylvania, Indian corn,
which in some parts of the East had
struggled through May and June, gave
up, froze and died.
To the surprise of everybody, August
proved the worst month of all. Almost
every green thing in this country and
Europe was blasted with frost.
Snow fell at Barnet, thirty miles from
London, England, on Aug. 30. Newspa-
pers received from England stated that
1916 would be remembered by the exist
ing generation as the year in which there
was no summer
Very little corn ripened in New Eng
land. There was great privation, ana
thousands of persons would have perishea
in this country had it not been for the
abundance of fish and wild game.-Dan-
bury Comm News.