European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stapes Worth 19m blizzards fury was leisurely great Plains knew White horror editors note the no Lizard that raked the North pm great Plains Marea 15 mar go Down the wont on in terms of its in Tensity and vast were Many persons in peril lived through k some thai b us Story of the of some who made and o some a by George Moses a dotted writer Spring is an elusive visitor id the Northern great ii Drain in briefly after the cold of january and february id Sel the now melting and to remind the Hardy Penl Nsnan Tirier wont last then it usually Given Way id another blast or two of icy air before ii returns to much of 1w opened with the Sun squeezed water out of a sparse nver on the Dakota Oral cattle dozed in children brought out jump ropes and but the Harbinger was it be Sec Ond Day of Ibe Gray Clouds began to cover the the weather Bureau predicted now ending by who possibly heavy in West Ern South shortly be fore noon wednesday the weath Erman took another predicted heavy awl and Strong wind farther past in the a he Itell mid ii would end one who heard that Snow warning was a Hardy rancher named Otto who lives ii Miles Northeast of Mclaughl near the North Dakota and their ton had been a Slung a daughter in nearby on her Ai a Light mow the Mettlers started in a Claughlin they stopped Tor and Mettler twight 50 cents Worth of Candy across the la three Banket Ball coaches from the reservation town of were Wak Siar Buke Yuul their learn n Flay the ant in Barun Allen Ettien Berger and Barret eyed the thickening Snow and the res Tux decided to drive the id Home to fort Yates any in their car were three Sweet Southeast of across the Missouri the Rule town of fading Road signs Label it the Home town of bandleader Lawrence a Eugene farms East of his year old splashed around the Muddy farmyard in her new As aha was following her two Ger Brothers a they did Many Miles across the Prairie to the at the Ray mond Plede farm near another tiny town called a Bint of Spring had been in the the do eds 13yearold was a Sev ent grader in the Woodworth suddenly Ike re the and us the weathermen had been watching on Odd combination of Low pressure one devel oped in Nevada and a second in Northern they moved stauty Northeast on a collision they met that Day Over the Northern linking up with a the Snow the wind quickly it wat hard to see More than a few feet in the or to breathe in drifts formed on highways and stopped travel dead Over Al but Northwestern North Dakota and in numbers that still Are being homeward the Mettlers and their boy fount mounting Drift and blinding Snow until a lire Chain their car went into a the hellers didst know Bat they were we from their Wise to Prairie Trie three put on heavy clothes in body was saying own Pray 1c got pretty 4btet in that the men shared the three Sweet grabbed of Snow for at saturday a rat Cue party from led by a rotary Snow found a were hospitalised for treatment of smoke irritated eyes from the fire that kept them death like this one new were Wude Nesses while lie storm among Tose who died were two children woo became lost practically an their the blizzard May have been the went in associated Prich photo Southeastern South the weather Bureau on wednesday afternoon added to prediction a word it Doest we lightly Vou can get am argument at any Comer cafe in the Aorta country when a nowt torm Neca Mea a the Ike Yard stick is simple winds it bore than u Olfes an great Devally of and tempera of 18 or though ural were in the teem probably saving lives there no argument about the storm that swept Over the from the Southwest that it packed we adj clocked unofficially in sort places Al More than 100 Miles an 68 Miles offi it Laid Down a Blanket of Snow ranging up to three despite us blinding it lumbered northeastward across toe and North Ern Minnesota with punishing before it blew itself out four Days the great blizzard of look ii slapped out Side life almost dead in hundreds of towns in its end killed Siuth Elvored livestock the trunk and began a lonely Vigil in tic or car that was to last three dark nights and two White i kept we Wal leave the Mettler said to keep his family from suffocating As the drifts closed Over them Mettler would Rait Down a Back window and shovel until he could crawl through enough to Widen the Hole to the top of the then hed crawl Bach into the in the frightening i Feller and Lyle Sang the sunday school Jesus loves Lyle ate the last of the Candy bars Friday saturday morning the met tiers stirred tinder the Feather her Forter they the Siwwi and wind had after h they fought their Way free of the car and walked the two Miles Home across of misled about 40 mites to the North the three Young from fort Vales were having their own their car stalled about is mites South of without heavy clothing they ripped out the Back Cushion of the in the Back they burned everything Burn some wooden Fence near the we kept Fla every Mariie or ii Woald mid every thursday afternoon the Bliz Zard eased momentarily at at the Welk Corleene iwo and in went id the Chicken Coop 49 feet from the to the Oarn another 30 feel Carleen started out with when the boy got to the they toe Rule girl was no longer with Welk and the looked far her in the wind Ana Snow old Welk died it search parties Conant Ike the storm Welk went out again saturday battling 12 foot a Quarter of a mile from Home he found careens it wus in a Tilting pod upright in the her new overshoes were still on her a stocking Cap Over her Brown at the Plede farm Friday the winds wet the now still last themed been no since the storm slipped out of the farmhouse of close a banking door on a in Coop 1m fool them Betty went to 8 barn Chwe where a Nephew had taken mfr Bathe Obi started Back Tor Ibn she was not seen realizing Betty was headed in a for the Chicken then fam the boy in theban pointed in the direction Betty by disappeared away from to Diode 8 soon realized she was Toft n Ike blinding the woman remembered lashing wind Wai from the and that Home Wai that she kept the in her and dropped Ott Tinni and Octif m she breathe and she Craft Odd perhaps 300 feet thai until her Home loomed up in the Rescue Crews from wood3 Worth could not break to the Arm until the next morn ing when the i storm with Albi Billly still roped them Waves together teams of one Troun found bettys body at half a mile from it lying near a ran Road she wan n very pretty said her family it the Brown Hilred seventh quiet and in Elfr larger Dakota in the blah Zards Rafhel signals winked foolishly my directing vehicles were stack in Tomm Elf tee workers were Mon Anuj Tor though Home Rndall hot for and in at least one Bli residential the first i age that started bucking Drift to lend or i was in Dary one on the Northern it raced out of Canada my at East 111 and wined out Ca on ism a Buzzard struck Minn which had Northern sharing part of the the armistice Day 1 and almost 25 years the on March blizzard bounced on Tom River Valley of North and trapping warned wholesale i their the loss of he 1 that one was from n to Ahev Haw Usa William golcmju4 Obaji Arnold 77