The school children’s blizzard of 1888

  • The school children’s blizzard of 1888
    The school children’s blizzard of 1888
  • Above: Seymour Dopp, a photograph owned by Gleora Covault.
    Above: Seymour Dopp, a photograph owned by Gleora Covault.

    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 Pawnee County was well over 10,000 at the time, but I’ve lear…