Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-01-27
HAD NO SUMMER CENTURY AGO
Vermont Man Frozen Stiff in
June Blizzard of 1916.
Farmers Did Work in OvcrcOats md
Mittcns-PcopIc Killed Themselves
because They Thought sun
Was Cooling on.


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who were MS old as I vas in that year
and anothor il bec,usc n near relative or
mine was frozen to death in Vermont on
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bu, no sign Of tho MISSING man could no
| found, The search was taken up by 9TH
ers the following day. and all the next
night without any trace of his being dis
covered except that he had reached the
|
one corner of the lot under which the
! sheep We're huddled On the forenoon of
the third day the searchers found my
| uncle buried in the snow a mile from tho
pa sture in an almost opposite direction
from home. He was frozen stiff. He had
| evidently become heWildered in the blind
| Ing storm and had wandered about until
he succumhed to fatigue and cold. /.
seems a most improbable thing that a
! person ever fell a victim to a snowstorm
| in tho middle Of June in this latitude, bur
| I have this sorrowful knowledge of ono
instance at least where such n thing was
only too true
The wind during June July and August
| of 1916 was continuously from the north
! and II blew nercely and cold. Farmers
wore heavy overcoats and mittens while
| about their work every day during these
months. There was hut little use of plant
! ing ANYTHING. nothing grew to sneak Of
| but they did plant corn as usual and
planted with mitetns on.
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