";s:4:"text";s:4404:" On January 12, 1888, one of the worst-known blizzards in U.S. History sacked the Plains. By continued exertion he kept the ice from freezing over his eyes, but the holes were very small and it was with considerable difficulty he could see at all. “The wind continued to increase in violence and a very fine snow began falling thick and fast. Found Frozen. One of the horses was dead when found. This blizzard is referred to as The Schoolhouse Blizzard because of the number of children that died. Huron, Dak. “The storm came up suddenly and it is feared that many school children who were out on the prairie are lost. Charles Heath is missing and J.H. Additional articles of comparable mishaps are not difficult to find: As a result, thousands of people—including many schoolchildren—got caught in the blizzard.
At Fargo…mercury 47’ below zero and a hurricane blowing….At Neche, Dak. Another little boy named George Allen started from school for his home on the Military Road, about a mile west of the city limits about the same time. Rolland Chambers, who lived 6 miles from here, started for the school house, a mile away, for his son. O.E. On March 11, two months later, the East Coast from Maryland to Maine was paralyzed by the “Great Blizzard of 1888.” Also known as the Great White Hurricane, this storm—one of the worst in recorded U.S. history—left more than 400 more dead.Receive product news, special offers and invitations, or the acclaimed Readex ReportBy clicking "Sign Up", you acknowledge that you have read and understand our ‘Lifeless in the snow’: The Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888
For the blizzard during the same year in the eastern United States and Canada, see From the letters and articles of the Kampen family archive as recorded by Ardyth Johnston of Watertown, SD for the "County History Book". In many other cases, the misadventures suffered by farmers were due simply to the nature of their work. In addition, the very strong wind fields behind the cold front and the powdery nature of the snow reduced visibilities on the open plains to zero. Thomas Gilkerson, who keeps a dairy two miles from Huron, went with Otto Gose to get a load of hay. The death toll was 235.Travel was severely impeded in the days following.
When the recent blizzard struck the State of Nebraska the temperature fell so rapidly that the creek at Papillion was frozen solid in a few minutes. W.B. Hitchcock, D.T., Jan. 13. Whistles were kept blowing all day as signals to the unfortunates.” At last accounts it was doing well. The storm arrived on a relatively warm day and many people were unprepared when the temperature plunged that afternoon. Search parties are out today. Jan 13. “By forming in parties of ten each, taking a long rope and marching across the prairie in line of that the villagers today found all the lost school children except one, a child of 10, named Johnson. There they remained twenty-six hours, until they were discovered yesterday morning, all three being terribly frozen and almost dead. The storm is still raging. A Nebraska Blizzard.