Jan. 12 marked the 124th anniversary of the blizzard of 1888, also known as the Children’s Blizzard and the Schoolhouse Blizzard. The event claimed 235 lives, most of them children ...

Many of you are familiar with accounts of the Children’s blizzard of 1888. It was 130 years ago tomorrow when a powerful blizzard swept through the northern plains with tragic results.

The Winter of 1888: The Children’s Blizzard. January 1888 saw the most intense cold wave on record impact the Intermountain West and Northwest portions of the country.

Much was learned from the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888. The U.S. Weather Service, then called The Signal Corps (which at the time was a newly formed governmental service run by U.S. soldiers ...

Dear Tom,I recently finished a book about the Children’s Blizzard of 1888, but the book never actually said how much snow fell. Could you shed any light?Dennis GladeDear Dennis,The Jan. 12, 1888 ...

The following is an account of the Blizzard of 1888 by Frances McCook, who lived in the Butler-McCook house on Main Street in Hartford until 1971. It is from the collection of Connecticut Landmarks.

Children’s literature, at least not the good stuff, has never shied from the disturbing. ... [”I Survived the Children’s Blizzard, 1888″]. Nobody’s heard of them.

Jan. 12 marked the 132nd anniversary of the blizzard of 1888, also known as the Children’s Blizzard and the Schoolhouse Blizzard. The event claimed 235 lives, most of them children ...