share. She was never seen again alive after she started back to the house about 100 feet away. For the first time in the history of many towns, schools were closed, all business was suspended, newspapers failed to publish, and all forms of traffic came to a complete halt. Posted by. A 60 year old man in Linton died in his car after vainly trying to extricate it from a ditch into which it had skidded. 1 year ago. 1966 Blizzard Photographs Set 5 Floods and Blizzards Unit 7 North Dakota History Primary Sources State Historical Society of North Dakota Search Our state museums and historic sites are back open with some changes and guidelines for the health and safety of our visitors and staff. By Friday night, the winds had reached 70 mph with gusts in some locations to 100 mph. The January 12, 1888 blizzard destroyed what was left of the open range cattle industry in North Dakota and killed 112 people. The economic impact of the storm was enormous. At Warroad a man fell dead while wading through deep drifts. The total loss of livestock was estimated at near 4 million dollars.The continual high winds piled snow in corrals and feed lots. In some respects, the blizzard of 1966 can be considered one of the most severe in the history of the state. The third man, age 73, a farmer of Driscoll, was found frozen to death in his farm yard only a few yards from his home. u/ImagesOfNetwork. Live in North Dakota long enough and the weather will provide you with an extreme storm that you can tell stories about all the way to the grave. Two of these were couples trying to get to the Dickinson hospital in time for the birth of their child.
Rather than drive people away or prevent the development of towns and cities, people learn to adapt to the usual cold and snow of winter and to accept unusual storms such as that of March 1966 as part of life in the semi-arid north. Pole barns, in which stock were herded before the storm struck collapsed, resulting in many dead and injured animals. Two weeks after the blizzard, Ida Kellogg was still exhausted, still drained by worry, and still fearful that she and her “boys” might have died in the storm while trying to save their livestock. Five persons in North Dakota died due to some related effect of the storm. On Wednesday, the State Highway Department requested travelers to stay off the highways; by Thursday, cities were asking businesses to close and for residents to stay off city streets.
Two victims were young girls who had left their farm homes to tend to livestock in the barn, but lost their direction in the blizzard’s swirling snow and wind, and walked away from the house and barn into the pasture. Many radio and TV towers took severe damage from winds. The unusually severe blizzard of March 15, 1941, with 70 mph winds, crossed the state from northwest to southeast in only 7 hours, leaving 39 dead in eastern North Dakota, where the storm was most severe.In the 1966 storm, winds reported over 70 mph continued unabated for up to four days in some areas. Rather than drive people away or prevent the development of towns and cities, people learn to adapt to the usual cold and snow of winter and to accept unusual storms such as that of March 1966 as part of life in the semi-arid north. Official records show that 74,500 head of cattle, 54,000 sheep, 2,400 hogs, and numerous other livestock perished in the storm. Highway patrols set up road blocks much of region allowing only emergency trips with snowplows. Snowmobiles became usual means of transportation. Storm Data: Blizzard of Mar 2-5, 1966 . Snow removal took the lives of three men; men working for the Highway Department risked their lives to rescue stranded travelers on the highways. Three elderly men died as a result of heart attacks, probably brought on by overexertion. Girl skating with kids circa 1970. 1 comment. The cattle then wandered off and perished in open fields. The legendary January 12, 1888 blizzard, which left at least 112 persons dead, lasted for 14 hours. Sort by.
On a farm in eastern North Dakota, 7000 turkeys perished.
Three trains, one carrying 500 passengers were stalled by deep drifts near New Salem. Snow is part of winter routine on the northern Great Plains. Some of these were in open fields where snow blinded them, causing them to drift into fences where they died; others died in barns that were covered with snow drifts and sealed so tightly that the livestock suffocated; some died in barns that collapsed under the weight of the snow.