16 INCHES OF SNOW

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 16, 3 February 1937, Page 5

16 INCHES OF SNOW

Floods Expected After Thaw in Oregon COAST AREAS WARNED (Received 3, 8.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Sixteen incbes -of snow in Portland paralyeed business, closed sclxools and marooned trams. It is estimated that 50,000 • persons are snowbound in Oregon alone. One electric train reached Spokane, Washington, four days late. The temperatures are again at freezing point in the Southern California citrus area. Meanwhile the forecast is for warmer temperatures and thaws with threatening floods in Western Oregon where Portland is buried in the heaviest enqwstrom in its history. Snow blocked the highways in the States of Washington and Oregon and the mountains of Northern California, also two main roads in Utah. The coastal area has been warned that a new storm would blow from the Pacific to-night. The bodies of five of those who were aboard the steel barge which sank at New Madrid were recovered by tbe use of grappling hooks, Thirty others aro missing. Ambassador Bingham has arrived in New York from London en route to his home in Louisville to assiat in the rehabilitation. General Grayson announced that the Red Cross was only a few hundred dollars short of its goal of ten million dollars, but urged contributions to continue in view of the fact that relief cost 17.000,000 dollars in the 1927 floods Which affected only half as many.