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Weather
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hours 40 degrees
the them storm
snow, their
January, 74 degrees
zero shelter; memory
below with
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In one (blizzard) which visited Dakota and the States
of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas ____________ Texas in ____________
1888, the mercury fell within twenty-four ____________ from ____________
above ____________ to 28o ____________ it in some places, and in Dakota
went down to ____________ below zero. In fine clear weather, with little
or no warning, the sky darkened and the air was filled with ____________
or ice-dust, as fine as flour, driven before a wind so furious and roaring
that men's voices were inaudible at a distance of six feet. Men in the
fields and children on their way from school died ere they could reach
____________ some of ____________ having been not frozen, but suffocated
from ____________ impossiblility of breathing the blizzard. Some 235
persons lost ____________ lives. This was the ____________ ____________
since 1864; the Colorado River in Texas was frozen ____________ ice
a foot thick, for the first time in the ____________ of man.
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