The Great Blizzard of 1891 affected

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between 9 and 13 March of that year. Strong winds, cold temperatures and snow which drifted up to high contributed to the deaths of 200 people and 6000 animals. A

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, the ''Bay of Panama'' was one of the casualties, driven onto rocks on the south coast of

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by the storm. Twenty-three people died in this incident alone.

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