The Okie Legacy: 1935 - Another Rolling Dust Cloud Over Southwest Area

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1935 - Another Rolling Dust Cloud Over Southwest Area

Yet another dust storm story from the same newspaper, dated Tuesday, 16 April 1935, page 1, news article from the Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light, out of Corsicana, Texas: "Another Rolling Dust Cloud Over Southwest Area."

Found on Newspapers.com

The residents of the panhandle declared latest duster of April 15, 1935 was worst in history.

Residents of the southwestern dust bowl marked up another black duster today and wondered how long it would be before another one came along.

Already cheered by two days of clear skies and a respite from the choking silt and sand, they were enjoying what started out to be a balmy Sunday when the duster swept out of the North and over western Kansas and eastern Colorado, and rushed on over the Oklahoma Panhandle and into Texas.

Hundreds of Sunday motorists were caught when the dense black cloud bore down upon them at a rate of 60 miles an hour. Some Oklahomans rushed for their storm cellars as day was turned into night.

Many motorists who attempted to drive through the cloud of stinging gravel and sand,, found that static electricity, generated by the dust particles, had disrupted the ignition systems on their engines.

Residents of Perryton, Texas, where there had been 50 dust storms in 104 days, described the storm "as the worst in history." Old timers in Oklahoma and Kansas agreed.

After the main cloud had passed, the air still was full of dust. The haze spread out far to the east and west.

At Trinidad, Colorado, Santa Fe railroad officials detoured trains over a southern route in an effort to avoid the storm.
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