The school children’s blizzard of 1888

Part 2 of a 3 part series Last week: The deadly School Children’s Blizzard of 1888 slammed into the Midwest one afternoon as school was about to be let out. It traveled at great speed like a white hurricane. Some accounts say the front line of it hurled chunks of prairie sod as it came, and the sound was terrific. The population of Pa...

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