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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.
1888 Nebraska elections (5 P) ... Schoolhouse Blizzard This page was last edited on 27 January 2019, at 04:35 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
"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 ...
The cemetery consists of a plot of approximately thirty graves, oriented in several rows. There are a number of interments from the Blizzard of 1888, also called the Schoolhouse Blizzard. The cemetery is situated in remote farmland. The cemetery is located approximately 9 miles north and three miles west of the town of O'Neill.
The Great Blizzard of 1888. Snow piles up in New York after The Great Blizzard of 1888. Bettmann - Getty Images. Impact: 4+ feet of snow, stranded trains, downed utilities. Casualties: 400 deaths.
1888 Schoolhouse Blizzard: Winter storm Midwestern United States: 230 1996 TWA Flight 800: Accident – aircraft Long Island, New York: 229–600 2021 2021 Western North America heat wave: Heat wave Pacific Northwest: At least 116 deaths in Oregon, at least 112 in Washington, and one in Idaho: 228 1997 Korean Air Flight 801: Accident ...