4-Day N. American Blizzard Kills 16

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 17

4-Day N. American Blizzard Kills 16

(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright) FARGO (North Dakota), March 7. Three northern plain States and sections of Canada today stepped up efforts to dig out after one of their worst storms in history. The storm, a four-day blizzard, left 16 people dead and one or two missing. There were heavy livestock losses in some sections of North and South Dakota.

One rancher estimated that at least half of his beef herd of 100 head perished in the storm.

Among stories of how individuals and families managed during the storm, was thit of a South Dakota ranch family which survived 60 hours in their snowbound car with the help of 15 bars of chocolate. A rancher, Otto Nettler. explained that during the ordeal ‘‘we all said quite a few prayers and my wife and boy sang that song, ‘Jesus Loves Me’.” Emergency Rescues Clear weather yesterday aided helicopters, planes and snowmobiles to carry out emergency rescue and search missions. The Northern Pacific Railroad was attempting to open its main line across North Dakota. Three Northern Pacific trains were trapped in the storm Snowdrifts were still so high that road travel in both Dakotas, northern Minnesota, and in Canada, from eastern Manitoba to the lakehead, was not expected to be back to normal before the end of the week at the earliest. Mr

Stephen Juba. Mayor of Winnipeg, predicted the storm would cost the city a million dollars.

I A belated report at Bismarck, North Dakota, told of how a night watchman. Ludwig C. Johnson, aged 62, had trudged through heavy snow to his home then collapsed and died, during the height of the storm on Thursday, the Associated Press reported. In northern Minnesota, 220 isolated airmen at the Finland Air Force radar station on the Lake Superior shore made contact with the outside. Snowdrifts for three days had blocked the road leading to a highway, but a big tractor at the base shoved through. That enabled the supply men to go out and buy food, chiefly bread.