The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-04-13
no SUMMER THAT YEAR.
Snow and Ice Prevailed in juno,
July and August, 1916.

I uuy anu AuEust, 1910.
The year 1915 was known thru
out the United States and Europe
as the coolest year ever ex-
perienced by any person then
living There are persons in
! Northern New York who have been
in the habit of keeping diaries fer
years and it is from the pages of
an old diary begun in 1910 and
kept unbroken until 1910 that the
following information regarding this
year without a summer has been
taken:
January was so mild that most
persons allowed their fires to go
out and did not burn wood except
days, but they were very few. Most
1 of the time the air was warm and
spring-like. February was not cold.
1 Some days were colder than any. n
j January, but the weather was about
1.-THE same. March. from the first to
the sixth, was inclined to be windy.
1T 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 first of May there
was temperature like that of win
ter, 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 kill
ed and the eornfields were planted
again and again, until 1t became
too late to raise a 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 every
thing had been killed by the cold.
June was the coolest month roses
ever experienced in this latitude.
Frost and ice were as common as
buttercups usually are. Almost ev-
cry green thing was killed; all fruit
was destroyed. Snow fell ten inch
es deep in Vermont There was
seven 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 in
blasts, laden with snow and ice.
Mothers knit socks of double thick
ness for their children, end made
thick mittens. Planting and shfv-
ering we're done together, and the
farmers who worked out their tax
es on the country roads wore over
coats ana mittena-
farmer NEAR Tcwhabnry. NJ.
owned a large field o. corn. He
built fires. Nearly every night he
and his men took turns in keeping
up the fire and watching that the
corn did not freeze. Tho farmer
was rewarded for his tireless Ia
bors by having the only crop of corn
in the region.
July came In with snow and ice.
On the Fourth of July ice as thick
as window glass formed throughout
New England, New York and in
some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian
corn, which in some parts of tho
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 blast
ed with frost. Enow fell at Barnet.
80 miles from London, England, on
August 30. Newspapers received
from England stated that 1916
would be remembered by the exist
ing generation as the year in which
there was no summer. There was
great privation, and thousands OF
persons would have persisted in this
country had it not been for the
abundance of fish and wild game
Danbury Comm News.