The weather prediction for the day was issued by the Weather Bureau, which at the time was managed by Brigadier General Adolphus Greely.The indications officer(forecaster) Lieutenant Thomas Mayhew Woodruff in St. Paul Minnesota said: "A cold wave is indicated for Dakota and Nebraska tonight and tomorrow; the snow will drift heavily today and tomorrow in Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. All classes of business have suffered more or less, and it is feared the losses on cattle driving before the furious elements will prove extremely heavy. Which were the worst blizzards? Here are the deadliest storms in They did not feel very uncomfortable until they struck the prairie and the wind struck them. Rapid City Journal articles: The death toll was 235, though some estimate 1,000. . HIST 2020 University of Memphis The Death Toll from The Blizzard Higher Still, many New Yorkers unfamiliar with blizzard conditions tried to go to work. Signal Office Station log: Killing frost in A.M. The enginemen report several narrow escapes from being turned over into the ditch. For the oldest inhabitant doesnt recall anything worse that what we are not undergoing in this section, and yet it is known to be so much worse elsewhere that each dweller in Rapid City drew a little closer to the fire on yesterday, and returned thanks his or her residence was in this place and not somewhere else, where the full sweep of the cruel north wind could beat down on and freeze the marrow in any one exposed. "Snowing stopped but intense cold has set in, nearly freezing me to death on the way," said Steinway's diary entry for March 13. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. . All seemed to be moving around lively, and the points and hills, where the snow had blown off, were covered with stock browsing. Known as the "Great White Hurricane," the Blizzard of 1888 was one of the most devastating weather events in recorded history. But when the air gets warm the drifts ought to be dumped into the ditches, and without waiting for an official order from the council. [7], Not all areas were notably affected by the Blizzard of 1888; an article in the Cambridge Press published five days after the storm noted that the "fall of snow in this vicinity was comparatively small, and had it not been accompanied by a strong wind it would have been regarded as rather trifling in amount, the total depth, on a level, not exceeding ten inches". The last copy of the Rapid Journal received in this city, dated January 13th, contains the substance of an interview with a cattle man of that city, who spoke with a confident belief that Thursdays storm had done little or no appreciable damage to stock on the ranges. . Travel was resumed, the Galena hack making its first trip in two days, and stages from Sturgis, Whitewood, Spearfish, and Carbonate, arriving practically on time. "In the very teeth of the gale the matinee was given, and last evening the second performance occurred according to programme," theTimesreported on March 13.