U.S.A. SNOWSTORMS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 5

U.S.A. SNOWSTORMS

VERY SEVERE.

[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]

(Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) CHICAGO, Nov. 23

Snow storms have dincer.ded from Western Canada to-day, when subzero temperature and heavy blizzards were general, adding a further hardship to winter’s first cold wave, which has already taken one hundred or more lives in the northern half of the United 'States. Tempera.' 1 .arts of from zero to fourteen below were general in Minnesota, Dakota, Northern town. Wisconsin. Illinois, Michigan, Ooio and Indiana. The temperature* in Tennessee. Arkansas and Alabama have dropped towards freezing point to-day. and snow was reported from North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky and the North Atlantic seaboard States. The cold wave has extended southward from Canadian north-west to the inferior of Florida. Chilling winds have lowered the temperatures in the south-west, and only the Pacific States have enjoyed pleasant weather. The Government weather observers said uneonlforta ole temperatures below freezing prevail in the Middle West to-day and to-mor-l‘ow. The snow storms would reach into Illinois and Indiana by to-nfght, and would extend with varying intensity across.

Much of the national emergency relief measure for the unemployed were continued in many of the cities.

Despite extraordinary provisions for sheltering the destitute two unemployed men died of exposure in Chicago and one in Minneapolis. Flie:i bodies were found in alleys and barns. The agricultural authorities in r he Central States said an unusually early winter would result in million,s of dollars loss to farmers unless the snow thawed.

The streams and wells were at low levels, and farmers would find it necessary to sell cattle unless the water supplies replenished early. Snow would also prevent livestock from finding forage in the harvested maize and grain fields.