A COLD SNAP
IN WESTERN CANADA. [United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] VANCOUVER, Jan. 7. Weather of unprecedented severity prevails in Western Canada. Between, Winnipeg and the Pacific Coast the temperature is as low as iorty below zero. A: Canadian-Pacific railway train was caught in a blizzard in Field Station on top of the Rocky Mountains. The train was absolutely frozen in. Five locomotives were unable to move it. After twelve hours’ delay the train was disconnected so that one car was hauled out at a time. Tlie radiators in many hundred-: of motor cars in Vancouver have been frozen, and the household water pipes have burst.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19300109.2.74
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
106A COLD SNAP Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in