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The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, or Children's Blizzard, 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.
Nov 13, 2009 · On January 12, 1888, the so-called “Schoolchildren’s Blizzard” kills 235 people, many of whom were children on their way home from school, across the Northwest Plains region of the United ...
The blizzard of January 12, 1888, which became known as the “Children’s Blizzard” because so many children died trying to go home from school, was one of the deadliest winter storms in the upper Midwest.
Jan 11, 2013 · Climate historians are quick to note that the “Children’s Blizzard” — so named because many of the victims were schoolkids trying to make it home — was not the most extreme blizzard ever to...
Nicknamed "The Children’s Blizzard," this devastating storm resulted in the deaths of many children on their walk home from school. A contributing factor to the death toll was the poor construction of many homes and schoolhouses built as the upper Midwest was experiencing a pioneer boom.
Feb 1, 2024 · On January 12, 1888, an unexpected blizzard swept across the prairies and claimed 235 lives, most of them children. The so-called “Schoolhouse Blizzard,” also known as “The Children’s Blizzard,” blew down from Canada and into areas that are now South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
Known as the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard, the storm caused the deaths of hundreds of people, including 213 children who never made it home from their one-room schoolhouses. In the 1930s, the WPA Federal Writers’ Project interviewed survivors of the storm.
