The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-11-14
SUFFERED SEVEREST
BLIZZARD IN YEARS
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DklkZANU IN i EFANO
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uously for hours on end. Taxis, IL
full demand about the city, rar
until the last possible minute ther
arrived home or were abandoned
where they were stuck.
Six feet deep drifts lined the
west side of Main Street; employ
ees busily dug way into theil
stores Tuesday morning. Harold
Gray reported banks ten feet high
in his yard on South Main Street
Virtually every street in the city
was blocked at some point by
huge, hard-packed drifts.
Tuesday morning the tempera-
ture, officially reported by Henry
Rydholm, was degrees above
zero. In "a hours the temperature
had slumped more than 80 degrees.
BY Tuesday both railroads
in the city were awaiting snow
plows before traffic could
move. Last train out of the
city, Frank Gettys, Great
Northern agent, reported, was
number 80 at 800 p. m. Mon
day.
Wreckers from every garage all
day long Monday plowed about the
city and environs, hauling stalled
motorists, or rescuing drivers and
passengers where it was impossible
to free imprisoned cars. But by
.c~lf thfe tyoffin xxyit n
garages loaded with cars, was at
a standstill.
The Home School for Girls, cot
tages along lower Sank Lake, all
of them just a mile out of the city,
were cut off from the city except
for telephone communication.
The high gale endangered many
signs about the business street.
Fred Swartz' sign was blown from
its perch; a big neon sign was
loosed from it's moorings at the
Main Street Chevrolet company; a
large one was snapped loose at
Johns Place; and another hung
Imply swaying in the wind at the
rear Of Otto Bros; yet another hung
loosely, unmoored, at the Shelley
station. a.
There was real concern for
four Saule Centre ladies. Mrs.
George Fish, Mrs. ". L. Bur
CESS, Mrs. e. A. Richards had
accompanied Miss Lucy Hunt
to her cottage on Ten Mile
Lake, north of Hackensack for
the weekend. Eventual contact
with them assured they were
all right with provisions and
wood. They were told not to
try to start until everything
was open.
One car along Main Street, left
since Monday, was virtually buried
Six feet snow banks, that ran from
the Midway grocery south to the
First State Bank, caught 1t, and
it nestled to the roof in the snow
Funeral services for Mrs. ]. l.
Truax. to be held Monday, couldn't
go forward because it was impass-
able by early afternoon from the
city to the cemetery, and the ser
vice was postponed to Wednesday
afternoon.
Among those who lost their head
coverings, while on their way
home Monday night, was Sim
Wiener. His hat sailed away, and
is now snugly located in an un.
known spot.
While the storm continued Tues
day deer hunters, many of them
with plans to leave by Wednesday
We're holding, but only tentatively
to plans. Fear Of being marooned
in the woods was causing many to
backwater. Old timers in the woods
like Alex Benson, Charley and Joe
Miller, were set to go again be-
fore the storm. Others like Pat
Dubois, A. NJ Cordell, Joe Frank
were abandoning plans quickly un.
less roads were opened by Wed.
nesday.
ID. b. Caughren was going to
go deer hunting this year for
the first time in more than
thirty years. But by Tuesday
he had other worries. With
party of duck hunters, he was
maroOned on a point on Osakis
lake where the Caughren
brothers have a cottage.
Like many others, John Hansen
and his family were stranded in
Minneapolis and unable to get to
their home after the Armistice Day
holiday.
High winds brought the chimney
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Otto crashing down at the
supper hour. Enough of the Chin