Volume 18 , Issue 24

April 1935 - Dust Zone Has Worst of All Storms As Farmers Go To pray for All of Rain

It was in the 15 April 1935, Monday, page 1, in The Independent Record, of Helena, Montana that we found this concerning the dust bowl: "Dust Zone Has Worst of All Storms As Farmers Go To Pray For Fall of Rain."

Found on Newspapers.com

North winds whipped dust of the drought area to a new fury Sunday and old timers said the storm was the worst they'd seen. Farmers prayed through dust-filmed lips for rain.

A black duster - sun batting cloud banks - raced over southwest Kansas, the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, and foggy haze spread about other parts of the southwest. Services at Lindeborg, Kansas, opening with a chorus singing "The Messiah," were carried on in dust-laden air.

Worshippers thronged the Methodist Episcopal church of Guymon, Oklahoma, to seek divine deliverance. Instead of rain, there came a deluge of dust which rolled and boiled like smoke of a gigantic oil fire.

Hundreds of Sunday motorists lured to the highways by 90 degrees temperatures and crystal clear skies, were caught by the storm. Farmers and agricultural officials of the dust area, southwest Kansas, southeast Colorado, northeastern New Mexico and the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles, reported the soil was not damaged and that crops could still be made this season if it would rain. Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas pointed out top son ranges from ten to thirty feet deep at many points in the area.
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