THE STORM - 1 Jan 1876

VRADENBURG, BERGER

Posted By: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert (email)
Date: 1/15/2007 at 17:11:37

The Chariton Patriot
Chariton, Iowa
January 1, 1876

THE STORM. -- Every day brings startling news of the late storm throughout
Nebraska and Kansas, whole families being among the missing. Dead bodies are
being recovered every day wherever the storm rages with the greatest
violence. For a time MR. VRADENBURG feared that his son-in-law, C.C. BERGER,
had perished, but a letter from CAL. dissipated that fear. CAL. said that at
the beginning of the storm he happened to be in a piece of timber a number
of miles from his claim, and with several others sought refuge in a log
cabin, where they remained several days. It was with the utmost difficulty
that he saved his horses from freezing. Had they been on the prairie all
would have perished. He says the storm was "perfectly fearful," and it so
disgusted him with farming in Nebraska, that he has gone to work in a
printing office at Grand Island.
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