The on Walker by Margaret K and Charles M Wetterer illustrations by Mary O'Keefe Young
Author s Note For three days in March 1888 a blizzard raged throughout the northeastern United States Snow and ice land from Maine buried the to Maryland Roads were closed and hundreds of passenger trains were stuck for days behind huge snowdrifts Winds some over 80 miles per hour cracked windows tore away fences roofs and signs and toppled trees and utility poles Thousands of birds fell frozen from bushes and buildings where they had huddled for shelter Miles of telephone and telegraph wires snapped under the pressure of wind ice and snow Cities and towns farms and families Were cut off from one another For a time the government in Washington D C lost all contact with the rest of the country At sea violent winds and waves damaged countless boats and sank more than two hundred of them Milton Daub was 12 years old when the storm struck He and his family lived in the Bronx a town that had become part of New York City a few years before At the time the Bronx had a small business and residential center with miles of fields and farms to the north The Daubs two story wooden frame house faced 145th Street a wide dirt road Milton 3
