AN ARCTIC BLIZZARD.
.WILD WEATHER IN AMERICA, 'i _____ WOEST FOR TWENTY 'TH-Rfc br M#m»-—-*•■• _-ioel_t!e-—Oofirrfshl Ottawa, December 81. i terrific mowstoTm has blocked the .Western United States railways. It i« th© worst blizzard for twonty years. TOLL OF: THE STORM. BUEIED UNDER AN AVALANCHE. , New York, December 31. At Milwaukee an avalanche descended frnd killed' a number of employees. ' iln tho Cascade Mountains ft Totary snow plough exploded on tho Great Northern Railway and five men were killed. ■ Telegraphs and telephones are idle and muoh damage has, been done to small shipping.' ■ (FUG WEBCKED; THBILMNG RESCUE ■' - . New.York, Deoembor 81. .' When the ttlg Margaret iitrack a subi merged wreck on the New Jersey coast the 'captain swam to tho shore. Ho Teaohed the beach, while the vwsel, in a' sink- ' tog oondition, stranded on a sand-bar. • During a terrifio gale, tho orow attempted to launch a life-boat, whioh over- | b'rnod. One of the sailors was drowned, J Lifes&vers Tosoucd ten others and when the lifeboat overturned tho spectators • iiishod into the surf and dragged all , fcshoro.'
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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175AN ARCTIC BLIZZARD. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1637, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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