Schoolchildren's Blizzard Traditional Cache
Schoolchildren's Blizzard
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This cache is hidden near the monument and graves for three students who died in the Schoolchildren's Blizzard. Please be respectful and limit your caching experience to daylight hours.
In Memorial Park Cemetery stands a monument put up by the late Loie Royce, who had three school students die in the blizzard of January 12, 1888. This blizzard is often referred to as the schoolchildren’s blizzard. It started shortly after 1:00 in the afternoon and became more intense between three and four o’clock, just as the children were starting from their schools for home. This was a very tragic day for the people of District 32, which was located three miles north of Breslau. Loie Royce was the teacher. Six students went home at noon. Peter Poggensee, Otto Rosburg, and Hattie Rosburg started out with Miss Royce for the Peter Hanson home where she boarded. Unable to face the storm, they drifted off course and became lost. They were found the next morning by Conrad Rosburg, father of the children, and Henry Lorenz. Loie Royce was alive but her feet were so badly frozen they had to be amputated above the ankles. This monument is believed to be the first historical monument erected in Pierce County.
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