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Dakota - Winter in the United States throughout the 1887-1888 winter is the longest at once the most violent. It snowed for days without hardly stopping.
Until January 12, 1888. Sunlight illuminates 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 this day to school. On the whole Dakota to Nebraska, boys greet the sun as Walter. They were excited after weeks cooped up in the house due to incessant snow fell.
Today, the temperature is only 20 degrees Celsius. Casually, mostly children left a scarf and thick boots. No exception Walter.
"A case of a fairy tale," said one of those who went to school together.
However, not everyone is happy with the weather. Some even always suspicious principled 'never trust the weather in the pasture NorthAmerica, especially in winter'.
Is not it 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 is 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, becomes dark. The wind blows twice as fast. The snow directly spill.
Within 3 minutes, the temperature dropped to minus 18 degrees! And it is only a matter of 2 hours, drop below minus 40 degrees Celsius. Children joyous home from school after a day of sunny weather, caught in a ferocious storm saju.
Not wearing a scarf and boots, as well as cold sober clothes, they were killed in frozen.
Today it is known as 'Schoolchildren's Blizzard'. Snowstorm and strong winds that came without greetings.
The story of Walter and Buchmillar is the story of a book called 'The Children's Blizzard' written by David Laskin recalled the tragedy.
The book is written by newspaper archives that time. Given the name of 'children's blizzard', because most of those who died were children of the 235 people killed, as quoted from minnpost.
Eyewitnesses Carl Saltee in a statement to the newspaper 127 years ago, said, "Suddenly it was dark, the wind howled with lightning fast, then rain pouring down snow.
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 could not be separated from the memory. Most of those who survived, would leave scars.
"Years after the tragedy, many people along the Dakota and Nebraska, walking wood or hide their hands because his fingers disappear," wrote the book.
Until now, the historical record, this tragedy is the worst snow storms and deadly in the United States.
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