The Murderous Blizzard Analysis
“The Murderous Blizzard”
In the article, Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 by David Laskin, which analyze the severe and tragic event that happened over the Northeast continent of American. In January 12, 1888, began as inconvenient warm morning across Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, territory of Dakotas, and Minnesota. Prairie snowstorm of blizzard killed hundreds of recently immigrant that comes to west in search prosperous new life. The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed, and shocked event. By Friday the thirteenth, hundreds of people were killed from this suffrage. Nobody had any idea that the atmosphere would immediately capable of changing and storm. This days known as “the Schoolchildren Blizzard.” The factors …show more content…
Even the day it self well known as “the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard” because a children where the most victims that grasp by storm and ice dust on their way home from school. The most shocking and widely reported deaths were of the schoolchildren. Additionally, five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. The children from school because their immune system. They could handle the coldLaskin suggested, “Hundreds of people lay dead on the Dakota and Nebraska Prairie, many of them children who had fled or been dismissed from country school at moment” (Laskin 41). They were thousands of people who witness by their eyes the account of the storm. The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed, shock and disbelief this tragic event. Roughly, an estimated 20 percent of the dead were children. The number of deaths estimated at between 250 and 500— was small compared to that of the Johnstown Flood that wipe out an entire industrial town in western Pennsylvania the following year. Six children of James Baker froze to death while trying to make it home from school near Chester township, Minnesota. They were found with their arms entwining each other in the snow.The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed, shock and disbelief this tragic event. Because their house is far way from
In the article, Death on the Prairies: The Murderous Blizzard of 1888 by David Laskin, which analyze the severe and tragic event that happened over the Northeast continent of American. In January 12, 1888, began as inconvenient warm morning across Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, territory of Dakotas, and Minnesota. Prairie snowstorm of blizzard killed hundreds of recently immigrant that comes to west in search prosperous new life. The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed, and shocked event. By Friday the thirteenth, hundreds of people were killed from this suffrage. Nobody had any idea that the atmosphere would immediately capable of changing and storm. This days known as “the Schoolchildren Blizzard.” The factors …show more content…
Even the day it self well known as “the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard” because a children where the most victims that grasp by storm and ice dust on their way home from school. The most shocking and widely reported deaths were of the schoolchildren. Additionally, five hundred people lay dead on the drifted prairie, many of them children who had perished on their way home from country schools. The children from school because their immune system. They could handle the coldLaskin suggested, “Hundreds of people lay dead on the Dakota and Nebraska Prairie, many of them children who had fled or been dismissed from country school at moment” (Laskin 41). They were thousands of people who witness by their eyes the account of the storm. The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed, shock and disbelief this tragic event. Roughly, an estimated 20 percent of the dead were children. The number of deaths estimated at between 250 and 500— was small compared to that of the Johnstown Flood that wipe out an entire industrial town in western Pennsylvania the following year. Six children of James Baker froze to death while trying to make it home from school near Chester township, Minnesota. They were found with their arms entwining each other in the snow.The account of the blizzard of 1888 are amazed, shock and disbelief this tragic event. Because their house is far way from