137 years ago
Thursday, March 15, 1888
HUNTINGDON
The thaw and sleety showers that prevailed during Sunday was succeeded at sunset by a calm, which continued until towards 8 o’clock, when a sound was heard to the north resembling the noise of an approaching train. In about five minutes, gusts of wind were experienced, settling down to a gale, followed by snow, which continued to fall in varying quantities until Tuesday afternoon, when the Scotch emigrant’s description to a friend at home was realized, “Man, Jock, we have snaw here up to the oxters.”
It was the heaviest fall of the season and increases the apprehensions of a flood.
The ice on the Chateaugay has not been disturbed since the beginning of December and averages 30 inches of clear crystal. In many places, the rapids are solid to the rock.
Violent as the break-up may possibly prove, it will be welcomed as the end of a long and severe winter.