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Show Old-Timer Has Lively Memory of Blizzard Memories of the great blizzard of iKK8 in South Dakota lire still vivid in the mind of Jani"S Ii. Lazear of Omaha, Neb., who was a national bank examiner at that time, according to the Kansas City Star. He had stopped at 1'ukwana, S. D., on his return re-turn from examining a bunk in a neighboring town and was warned by a hotel proprietor that a blizzard was on the way. "For eight days and nights, with the mercury from 15 to 45 below zero, I acted as fireman In my room," related re-lated Lazear. "The now was packed solid to the second story. Toward the last all I had to eat was dried apples. I'enple in the town were enabled to make visits to one another by tunneling tunnel-ing under the snow next to the sidewalk. side-walk. Snow was packed 40 feet deep ano so solid in some of the cuts that trains were run by tunneling under the snow. For 30 days trains were run like this. After the storm I drove from I'ukwana to Mitchell over the top of the snow. The crust held the two horses, the sleigh and Its load with ease. I made the trip of nearly 100 miles safely." |
