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A Genuine Blizzard

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Day
4
Month
December
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Miss Orace Stevens, wno is visiung m Janiestown, Dakota. writes to her parents a most interesting description of the blizzard which visited that part of the country last week. The snow began to fall on Wednesday; on Thanksgiving day she started to go to the next house and was barely able to reach it on account of the storm. The snow continued to fall throUgh Friday, and in the ravines was packed so hard that they had to blow it out with dynamitei-aid Miss Stevens, " n Saturday the wind had gone down. and people began to shovel snow. Mra. Riley and I started out to see the sights. The fïrst thing we did was to walk f rom the porch out on the snow and over the fence into the middle of the street. We went down town on a level with the tops of the fences, and in one street went to the top of a drift and looked into the second story window of a hotel. We could have crawled onto the top of the f reight depot, but walleed from the summit of a drift over a box car. The snow is 20 feet deep in the cut where the railroad track runs just west of town. Teople say it is the worst storm since 1880."

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat