GRIP OF WINTER
INTENSE COLD IN AMERICA
MANY DEATHS REPORTED
United: Press Association—By Electric Telt ' iraph-CopyriuhC , ; NEW YOEK, 9th February. An intense cola wave,'which drove temperatures down.to record low levels in many north-western cities, gripped the United States to-day, with'the exception of sonio points on the West Coast and in the far east. At least sixty deaths are directly attributed to the cold, and many more are expected. f At Chicago the temperature was 27' degrees below zero, tho lowest for twenty-one years. Seventeen deaths occurred. ' Deaths due to tho low temperatures are reported from as far south as Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Freezing weather is being experienced in Central Florida, and in the Imperial Valley, California, it is colder than has been recorded for twenty-one years. Early vegetables and fruit cropß have been killed. The temperature in New York reached the season's low level—lldeg below zero—and is expected to touch 15 tomorrow morning, which will be the coldest for five years. Municipal lodging houses are filled to capacity with homeless men.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 10
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172GRIP OF WINTER Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1933, Page 10
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