Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1918 — Big Storm Recalled. [ARTICLE]

Big Storm Recalled.

Just thirty years ago In January, the worst storm in the history of the United States weather bureau raged over the central West, taking a toll of more than 200 lives fend killing thousands of farm animals. “Old-timers” asserted there had been a storm of equal, if not worse proportions, in 1880, but there are no definite records on. the first storm, and it is known to have been more locally confined than the “great storm of ’88.” The storm originated in Nebraska and extended to central lowa and Wisconsin eastward and to the Montana line on the west. The temperature was about freezing when the storm started, but by the next morning It had dropped to 54 degrees below zero in South Dakota. Grand Forks, N. D., reported a temperature of 52 degrees below, while at Sioux City, la., it was 28 below. Near Mitchell, S. D., a farmer and his son were unable to reach the hougp five rods distant before the boy was frozen to death. .......J. ■ . .../■■ .. .