On April 11, 1906, Otho Lathrop came up from Fargo to visit with the Lathrop family for a few days. Thomas Olson went to St. Paul, where he would enter a hospital and have an appendectomy.
On April 12 a fall of snow melted almost as soon as it fell, but it made things slippery. Mrs. J.D. Carroll of Lake Washington was out in her yard when she slipped and fell, breaking her right arm above the wris...