Show old timer has lively memory of blizzard memories of tile great blizzard of 1888 in south month tire lire still vivid in tho mind of callies II 11 lazenb of 0 onitha neb who wits wan it national bank examiner atif C that time little according to the kansas city star tar lie ho hall stopped nt at S D on ills rl rc turn from examining it bunk bank in ill a town and was warned ly by a hotel proprietor that it blizzard was on tile the way for eight days and nights with lie mercury front from 15 to 15 45 bolow below zero I 1 acted ns as fir lit in my lily room relate lizear the snow wits incited soled to the lie story toward tile last fill all I 1 hud had to eat cat wits was dried ripples people iilo lit in the lie town were enabled to make e visits to one another nother by tunnel trig under tie fie enow next to tile sade walk snow was pricked 40 feet dee deev all iriti so solid in of tile cuts that hint trains ruins were run by under file banow for 30 days trains were run like tills after tile storm I 1 drove from wann to mitchell Ml over the top of tile the snow know the ejust crust held the two horses horse tile ho sleigh and its load with case I 1 made the trip of nearly nilles miles safely |