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Hall County Newspaper Tidbits, 1870 - 1879
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Tidbits of News on this Day
In the historical works published in 1920 mentioned this storm as the "Easter Storm" though this article and one other states it started the Monday after Easter Sunday which was on April 13, and yet it also indicated that a full moon was the day before.
The Omaha Daily Bee
Tuesday, April 15, 1873
HEAVY SNOW STORM.
Between Four and Five Feet of Snow Falls at
Grand Island, and the Storm Still Continuing.
A very heavy and violent snow storm set in at Grand Island at a late hour last night and is still in progress. From a dispatch in Mr. J. J. Dickey, the superintent of the Union Pacific telegrah, we learn that the snow is drifting terribly, and is from four to five feet deep in drift on the track. The air is filled with the flying snow, so that nothing can be seen at a distanct of fifty feet. The telegraph wires west are all down, and nearly all of them eastward so that telegraphic communication from the West is cut off to-day. So great is the violence of the storm that it is impossible as yet, to
send out men to repair the breaks in the wires. The Union Pacific train which was due here to-day at 10 o'clock, left Grand Island with two engines and if no further interruptions are met wilh it will arrive herethis afternoon about five hours later. IT is impossible to tell how far the strom extends west of Grand Island.
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Read: "Heavy Snow Storm"Cited Source:
Newspapers.com. The Omaha Daily Bee (Omaha, Nebraska). Tuesday, April 15, 1873, p. 4 col. 4. Provided by Newsapapers.com. Transcribed by Matthew D. Friend.
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