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Caddo Co. OK - Newspaper
The Minco Minstrel
Submitted by Nancy Charlton
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MINCO MINSTREL 1924 
BLIZZARD OF 1891 IS RECALLED BY PIONEERS 
The following article taken from the Anadarko Tribune of last 
week will be of interest to many of the Minstrel readers, in as 
much as the Dr. and Mrs. Chas. R. Hume mentioned are the 
parents of our fellow townsmen, Dr. R.R. Hume. 

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Hume are among the early settlers in this 
section of Oklahoma. Thirty-three years ago last Monday, 
December 31, 1891, Mrs. Hume and children arrived at the agency 
having been preceded here by Dr. Hume, who was called here by 
the government as doctor, December 1 st. Dr. Hume and family 
had lived at Caldwell, Kansas, for ten years previous to their 
move to the Kiowa Agency. The time of their arrival was late in 
the evening. They drove over from Minco in a buggy and crossed 
the Washita River just after dusk. New Year's day, 1891 ushered 
in one of the most severe blizzards recorded in this section. 
During this storm three little Indian boys had run away from 
the Riverside Indian school were frozen to death. Dr. Hume was 
the agency doctor for eleven years and three months. The family 
resided in the first residence east of the office building. It 
has since been remodeled. In 1902 they built the home they now 
occupy._ Anadarko Tribune 
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