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Note: The blizzard of 1888 will ever remain a memorable date. On the January 12, a drizzling mist in some localities, which amounted to a light snow in others, fell throughout the forenoon hours with a mild temperature prevailing. With a mighty roar, the mist turned to a blinding snow between 12:00 and 12:30 o'clock and a furious gale raged for ten hours while snow piled into drifts as many feet deep and the thermometer dropped to 22 degrees below zero.
.... Mrs. Gus Hahn and Mrs Emma Held, with their brothers, Henry and William Herling, were attending school in the Herling neighborhood 10 miles southeast of Leigh when the great blizzard struck. The school had an enrollment of 60 pupils and 40 were at school that day. George Poole, the teacher, allowed none of the children to leave the building and when the fuel on hand had been burned, he made a rope from the children's scarves and sent two boys to the shed for fuel tying them together and keeping one end which he used to guide them back. The children were forced to remain in the schoolhouse all night. The food left in the dinner pails was divided and their coats were laid on the floor for beds. Parents reached the schoolhouse the next day.
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