Unusual Storm Does Heavy Damage
A big snow and windstorm of extraordinary proportions and velocity for this time of year swept over this section last Saturday, snow beginning to fall late Friday night and continuing throughout the day Saturday, accompanied by a high wind which caused untold damage in many ways.
It is most unusual at this season of the year to see so many leaves on trees, both green and with autumnal tints, and with the heavy fall of six inches of snow it weighted down trees, telephone, telegraph and electric wires, so that linemen were kept busy for several days repairing the damage caused on the lines. Drifts on state roads and hill roads caused autoists to shovel themselves out in order to get through to their destinations, and many of them failed to get through and were obliged to turn about.
Sunday morning the village snowplows were out clearing the walks and the landscape had a regular mid-January appearance.
One inhabitant tells us that in 1883 there was a similar storm, with more snow, but not so much wind. It is safe to say that not in the history of the oldest inhabitant has any such storm been witnessed in half a century.
Dumb animals that were out to pasture, both horses and cattle, suffered severely Saturday and Sunday.
Many farmers were just digging their potatoes and getting in other vegetables and this snowfall and cold snap that caused much damage.
