The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-05-05
May Day Blizzard.

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A blizzard of serious proportions
ushered in May day in northwestern
Nebraska, northeastern Wyoming and
the Black Hills region of South Da-
kota. The tail end of the storm
whipped down across the Rosebud
country and northern Nebraska.
Freezing weather followed the storm,
which ragged for twenty-four hours.
The temperature in Norfolk Monday
morning was - above zero. West
of Valentine the snow ranged from
six to sixteen inches deep and all tele.
graph wires are down, between 400
and 800 telegraph poles having gone
down between Valentine and Hay
Springs West of Chadron terrific
blizzard is reported. The snow drln.
ed and train service was interfered
with. Snowplows had to be sent in.
to the storm region and operating was
rendered more difficult because of the
lack of train dispatching wires.
At Royal, Neb, on the Burlington
line near O'Neill a waterspout occur
red Saturday afternoon. At Osmond
two inches of rain fell in a short time.
At Winnetoon very heavy rain is re-
ported. Prairies were flooded and
some live stock drowned
In Norfolk the rainfall amounted to
10 of an inch. There was just a
trace of snow
Train Stalled at Gregory.
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serious proportions, much the same as
at Valentine. Train No. 4O1, which
left Norfolk Sunday afternoon for Co
lone, on the first through trip to that
point, the run just having been extend
ed from Dallas, was unable to proceed
beyond Gregory and tied up there over
night Sunday. Again Monday morn.
ing this train was stuck in the snow
west of Gregory, but soon got out and
went on to Colome.
Will Fruit Be Killed?
Fruit men in Norfolk are gloomy
over the freeze, fearing that the Sc
we're freeze has killed fruit prospects
for this summer. They are not Ger.
tain, however, that this will result.
Gardens were laid low. The North.
fork river here has risen sixteen
inches.
Cold Even in Oklahoma Today.
Kansas City, Mo, May Missouri
Kansas and parts Of northern Okla
homa are shivering today from the
sudden drop in temperature, which in
some places was as great as so de.
grees. Wind from the northwest
which started early yesterday had
passed eastward today, but it left a
frozen trail.
The weather bureau here predicts
that by Tuesday morning it will be
freezing throughout most of Kansas
and Nebraska, In Missouri frost is
predicted with freezing in the vicin-
ity of Kansas City. A report from
North Platte. Neb., said the mercury
this morning had dropped to "a de-
grees above zero.
Valentine, Neb., May Especial to
The News: The rainfall in the storm
here amounted to 1.12 inches.
Snow IL to 18 Inches Deep.
Gordon, Neb., May Especial to
The News: The heaviest snow of the
winter and in fact for several years,
fell here Saturday night. 1t began
raining at o'clock but before had
turned into a wet snow and fell con-
tinually until about 10 o'clock yester-
day, turning trifle colder, enough so
that it froze on everything that it fell
upon. At no time, however, has it
been colder than 20 degrees, and very
little wind has accompanied this
storm.
The telephone system is fiat upon
the ground in the streets here. going
down in the night from the great
weight OF snow and ice that clung to
the wires and poles. Small trees are
bent to the ground but will come out
all right. The telegraph wires are all
down in both directions from here, so
that only scheduled trains will be able
to run for a few days.
AS yet there have been no reports
Of loss of stock and it is not antici-
pated that there will be much, as
stock is generally stout here, having
wintered in fine shape.
The snow stands from twelve to
sixteen inches deep on the level, but
is already going down quite fast, and
will probably not last more than two
days, as the ground is quite warm
underneath.
On the whole the benefits derived
from the moisture which was quite
badly needed by the farmers, will far
exceed the damage done to the tele-
phone and telegraph lines.