Cascade-1857-Big Snow Storm

INDIAN, PARROTT, NEIERS, PATTERSON, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/22/2019 at 14:03:06

1857-This was the year of the big snow storm. Snow reached an average depth of four feet on the level. Deer were run down by dogs and clubbed to death by residents-dogs could run lightly over the crust, corner deer, whose weight broke crust, and hold them pending arrival of residents. Indians always camped on flat south of town and at South Fork on Chimney Rock. During the snow storm Jack Parrott rescued a Brave and took him to his home to thaw out. The Parrott’s log cabin was located approximately where the M. J. Neiers home is and the Phillips cabin was across the street on the site of the Geo. Patterson home. Ten years later, the Indian rescued by Parrott drifted back and presented his benefactor with a beautiful bay pony which the Parrott children rode for years afterwards.

Cascade Centennial, Howard C. Baldwin