The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1910-04-21
IN THE CLUTCH OF WINTER
Plenty Of Snow, Heavy Winds and
Freezing Temperature Gets Back
Into Winter Season.

Dumped back into the cold EN-.
brace of winter after luxuriating fol
forty-four days in the lap of spring
is a change that is not wholly an.
preclated by this section of the coun.
try. when the hard coal fire had been
all but banished. gardens had been
planted with the stuff up. the lawns
moved, the fruit trees in blossom.
The snowstorm which started in
last Friday morning did not abate
to any extent until during the night
OF Sunday, and even this morning
there was evidence of the snow keep
ing up. The winter conditions could
not have been more ideal if the cal
endar had been turned back three
or four months. Sunday morning the
thermometer registered FL degrees
as the coolest during the night, and
this morning it registered at rs de-
grees as the coolest. The mercury
only got up to 20 Sunday as the
warmest all day. The day was a par
ticularly bad one with the snow blow
Ing and making outdoor travel very
unpleasant.
The cold and snow could not have
done any more damage by the freeze
OF Sunday, for the cold of the prev
ious days had got in its deadly work.
There is hardly any possibility that
the fruit has sustained the shock.
although the cherry trees may be able
to pull through, for the BUDS nave
hardly broken forth as yet. But plums
apples, c%urrants, etc. were about in
that stage of development as to kill
them effectually.
The amount of snow that has fallen
may afford something of a protection
to wheat, which is we'll above ground
and to the oats, which are just in
the sprouting period. 1t is possible
that some %replanting will have to be
done.
The precipitation of the snowfall
from that of Saturday and Sunday
amounted to ga inches. The depth
OF the snow could not be ascertained,
for much of it melted as it fell Sat
urday.
Delays Traffic to Some Extent.
The storm is general in all parts
Of the state, being particularly Sc
we're from wherever reports we're
AOSCASOO. 4eoAAAOdU Ildn1C III IulS oOC-
ton was not delayed Sunday on trains
passing through A1itchell by reason
of the storm. 1t was expected that
perhaps the Black Hills division
would be blocked Sunday, but the
trains came through on time. How
ever, in the afternoon the conditions
grew worse, and the west passenger
train over the Milwaukee road was
held here on account of the roadbed
west, between Mt. Vernon and this
city.
A freight train was started west
Sunday afternoon and about three
miles from here it got stalled in a
heavy drift, and there is has remain
ed the greater part of today. The
passenger from the Black Hills coun-
try got to Chamberlain on time this
morning but it had to be abandoned
there because of the blockaded con-
ditions between the two points. A
train was sent east from here.
This morning a freight was sent
east over the Milwaukee and near
Burton it struck a drift and was STALL
ed there until noon, by which time it
was expected to be cleared.
This storm has been something of
a record breaker for intensity and
severity at this season of the year,
particularly where the previous
weather had been of such an ideal
character.