[Blizzard of 1888]

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to death in the snow, and the loss in livestock was big. The next
morning we walked out upon the hard deep drifts shoveled a way thru to the
barn where we round our cows and horses alive an top of the szow that had
drifted into their stalls, but a let of our hm were frozen sUff in
mud, ice and snow. The road we came over on our way home was strewn with
frozen quails and rabbits, dead.
"That was an awful night on the open plains. Many teachers and school
children lost their lives in that bliudilk; storm, while trying to find their
way home. The blizzard of 1838 has not been forgotten."