“There are no spoilers, because everybody dies,” said Carolyn Mankell Sowinski, author of “The Great Storm: Minnesota's Victims in the Blizzard of January 7, 1873,” who will speak at the Nobles County ...

The increased expense of 24,000 tons of iron yearly for maintenance of track on a road like the Erie, at the prices of 1873, would be about $888,000, but falls upon a traffic amounting to ...