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Rh the severity of the weather and the exposed condition of the people. Every one believed that the snow would melt away and that we should yet have our glorious late autumn, but such was not to be; the October blizzard was the beginning



of a winter the like of which has not before or since been known. The snow did not go off, and early in November an additional fall came, to which additions were made from week to week. The railroads, as yet unprotected by snow fences, were covered with drifts, and it was with great difficulty that trains were moved at all.