THE TRAGEDY
Three children prepare to leave for school wearing googles and homemade dust masks to protect them from the dust.
Lakin, Kansas,1935. Credit: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/photos/ Dust storms reached up to 10,000 miles in the sky and even spread to Chicago, New York and Boston. Children and woman wore dust masks and farmers lost about 25 million dollars per day. Cattle choked and died on the sand, and smothered all crops, sand covered everything. Families could no longer pay for land and there was no food, more farmers left just to survive. |
Approximately 500 people died from the Dust Bowl, of dust pneumonia, malnutrition and some suffocated because of the storms, but the majority committed suicide of finical despair. Credit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1OdDieuD1OA
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Black Sunday: April 14, 1935 In 1934, the drought was the worse than ever in the U.S., it covered more than 75 percent of the country and affected 27 states severely. And no one thought it could get worse. But on April 14, 1934, a day that started out calm and sunny became known in the history books a Black Sunday. Many people thought it was the end of the world. |