A fast moving “Alberta Clipper,” struck so quickly on March 15, 1941 across North Dakota and Minnesota that it stranded thousands of people, and killed more than 100.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.