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Platte County Historical Society will present “Blizzard of 1888 — The School Children's Blizzard” at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Platte County Historical Society Museum’s west building, 2916
We may be wrapping up an unseasonably warm December week, but Minnesotans are well aware that this is borrowed time. Soon the temperatures will be dropping, and it's inevitable that at some point, the snow will begin to fall again and fall hard. ...
The legend of the Minnesota blizzard of 1888 We may be wrapping up an unseasonably warm December week, but Minnesotans are well aware that this is borrowed time. Soon the temperatures will be dropping, and it's inevitable that at some point, the snow will begin to fall again and fall hard. ... Written By: Forum News Service | 8:08 am, Dec. 14, 2015 × The day after the blizzard, Jan. 13, 1888, large drifts blanketed most of Minnesota and the Dakotas, Nebraska and Iowa. The Children’s Blizzard was considered one of the deadliest blizzards of all time. SUBMITTED PHOTO We...
Laugh Tracks in the Dust, Damphewmore Acres, Kan. A couple of weeks ago, I speculated in my column about how the pioneers in the 1880s were probably very happy for the telegraph because one big benefit was advanced notice of bad weather — hours, or perhaps days — ahead of the storms to towns and cities up and down the telegraph lines. Getting weather information to individuals and families isolated on the prairies was still to come. After reading my column, Elmer from Colorado called me to discuss the telegraph’s use in pioneer day weather forecasting. He said every telegraph station ha...
This story was originally published in the Detroit Lakes Tribune, Dec. 13, 2015.