FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA.
SIX PERSONS KILLED. DAMAGE BY WINDSTORM. (riciTitu vp.usa association -B? rxrcTß.c TELEGItAIU- COPYRIGHT 1 (Received November 23rd, 11.10 p.m.) LOS ANGELBS. November 22. Six persons v.ecp killed and scores ivero injured when hush and forest fires broki' out in several sections, and Mtlf"»tii'i.'it>'d pri->o"rtv dninnn" also caused on Saturday by n wind storm which swept southern California. At times the win*! reached a velocity of S5 miles an hour. Sbinpins: and aeroplane services were hampered and great dnmn;;» was done to fruit.
SNOW BURIES TOWNS
A RECORD EARLY FALL. CHICAGO, November 21. The heaviest early snowfall in the Weather Bureau's history has buried tho western United States from tho Rockies to Nebraska and north to Canada. Hundreds are snowbound in trains. Belief engines and ploughs stalled in 20-foot, drifts. Five were frozen to death, and scores of automobiles arc marooned. Colorado towns are buried to the roofs.
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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11
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151FOREST FIRES IN AMERICA. Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 24 November 1930, Page 11
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