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| US Dakota Blizzard Tragedy |
Dakota - Winter in the United States throughout the 1887-1888 winter is the longest and most cruel. It snowed for days without hardly stopping.
Until January 12, 1888. Sunlight shining the Great Land, Grot, Dakota Territory. A small town located in the vast grasslands. At that moment, Walter Allen 8 years old boy would not feel his nose sneezing all day. He kicked the blanket and get ready for the sun.
He did not believe, can study today. Throughout the Dakota to Nebraska, boys greet the sun as Walter. They are happy after weeks cooped up in the house due to incessant snow fell.
Today, the temperature is only 20 degrees Celsius. Casually, most children leave the thick scarf and boots. No exception Walter.
Today, the temperature is only 20 degrees Celsius. Casually, most children leave the thick scarf and boots. No exception Walter.
They praised the weather and the color of the sky at that time. Golden, like a fairy netting.
"A case in fairyland," said one of them who went to school together.
However, not everyone is happy with the weather. Some even always suspicious principled 'never trust the weather in North American grasslands, especially in the winter'.
It is strange, from minus 40 degrees Celsius soaring to 20 degrees Celsius? Overnight!
Is John Buchmillar, a Dakota farmer who does not believe in such weather. He asked his daughter who was 12 years old to remain at home, no need to go to school like his friends.
"There's something in the air," Buchmillar looking at the sky.
Indeed, there is something in the northern sky. The weather was sunny in a matter of hours, without any warning, it becomes dark. The wind blows twice as fast. Snowfall directly spill.
Within 3 minutes, the temperature dropped to minus 18 degrees! And only a matter of 2 hours, dropping below minus 40 degrees Celsius. Children joyous home from school after a day of sunny weather, saju trapped in a vicious storm.
Not wearing a scarf and boots, as well as cold sober clothes, they were killed in a frozen.
Today it is known as 'Schoolchildren's Blizzard'. Snow storms and strong winds that come without greetings.
Walter and Buchmillar story is the story of a book called "The Children's Blizzard 'written by David Laskin recalled the tragedy.
This book was written based on archival paper that period. Given the name of 'children's blizzard', because most of those who die are children of the 235 people killed.
Eyewitnesses Carl Salter in a statement to the newspaper 127 years ago, said, "Suddenly it gets dark, strong winds accompanied by lightning roaring, the snow then fell with heavy.
At that time, was the worst storm in my life. Even I could not see even though it was only three steps from where I stand. "
The loss of human lives and livestock in the territory was not separated from the memory. Most of those who survived, would leave scars.
"Years after the tragedy, many people along the Dakota and Nebraska running with a wooden leg or hide their hands because his fingers disappear," wrote the book.
Until now, history records, this is a tragedy of the worst snow storms and deadly in the United States.
