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The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, [2] or Children's Blizzard, [3] hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths , it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.
In mid-January 1888, a severe cold wave passed through the northern regions of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains of the United States, then considered to be the northwestern region of the nation. It led to a blizzard for the northern Plains and upper Mississippi valley where many children were trapped in schoolhouses where they froze to death.
Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888 North American Great Plains. January 12–13, 1888. January 12–13, 1888. What made the storm so deadly was the timing (during work and school hours), the suddenness, and the brief spell of warmer weather that preceded it.
0–9. The Great Snow of 1717; January 1886 blizzard; Schoolhouse Blizzard; Great Blizzard of 1888; Great Blizzard of 1899; Great Lakes Storm of 1913; 1920 North Dakota blizzard
"Blizzard of 1888". History Nebraska. State of Nebraska Government. "The Winter of 1886" [Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site]. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. "The Winter of 1886-87" [Theodore Roosevelt and the Dakota Badlands]. National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior.
March 11: Great Blizzard of 1888. January 3 – The great telescope (with an objective lens of 91 cm (36 in) diameter) at Lick Observatory in California is first used. January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory , the states of Montana , Minnesota , Nebraska , Kansas , and Texas , leaving 235 dead, many of them children on ...
As temperatures dropped amid the deadly New York winter storm and many people were left stranded outside, one New York man took action.
The Children’s Blizzard, published by HarperCollins in 2004, tells the story of The Schoolhouse Blizzard, a sudden winter storm that bore down on the Upper Midwest on January 12, 1888 and killed hundreds of settlers, many of them children on their way home from one-room prairie schoolhouses.