The latest snow storm of consequence that has occurred here began on May 19, 1914, and continued for three days. On May 23 we went to our buried garden, dug down through about sixteen inches of wet snow, and pulled some crisp radishes for our dinner. That night it froze quite hard, but as everything was covered with a blanket of snow, no damage was done except to fruit blossoms. Some of these were not yet far enough advanced.

The tornado has never accomplished much of its devastation in the Panhandle of Nebraska. Three have been observed, and one photographed, while in earlier years there evidently were two storms of greater magnitude than any that have been seen. Stansbury mentioned the evidence of a great storm that had blown down the great cedar forest that once stood on the Wildcat range near Chimney rock. This must have occurred about one hundred years ago, or perhaps longer.

' Tornado of June, 1878

A most remarkable tornado occurred about June 11 or 12, 1878, and crossed Cherry and Sheridan counties, breaking near Buffalo Gap, South Dakota. Beaver creek comes out of the Black Hills at the latter point flowing eastward eventually uniting with Cheyenne river. The rocks on either side stand up on edge because of the great internal disturbances that made the Black Hills.

Over a radius of several sections there was a deposit of mud, rushes, turtles, and fish, several feet deep and a deluge of water. In a torrent the water rushed through the gap and a few miles below utterly destroyed eleven wagons that were loaded with miscellaneous merchandise for Black Hills points. There was no salvage. The storm had come from the southeast.