noon
The snow came down all day in big flakes , and by evening it was a foot deep . It turned colder in the night , and the wind shifted to the northwest . In the morning it was blizzarding . The air was full of fine snow blown before the wind , and before noon you could not see across the street . Some of the smaller houses were almost drifted under . This kept up for three days . Of course the train could not get through , and the one telegraph wire went down and left the town like an island alone in the middle of the ocean .