EARLY U.S.A. BLIZZARD

Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1930, Page 5

EARLY U.S.A. BLIZZARD

DEATHS AND DAMAGE

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

CHICAGO, November 28

Heavy snow-storms descended from Western Canada to-day, when subzero temperatures and heavy blizzards were general, adding further hardships to winter’s first cold wave, which has already taken a hundred or more lives in the northern half of the United States.

Temperatures of from zero to fourteen 'below were general in Minnersota, the Dakotas, Northern lowo, Wisconsin, iHlittois, Michigan, Ohio tind Indiana. The temperatures in Tennessee, Arkansas ahd Alabama, dropped towards feezing to-day and snow was reported from North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky and the North Atlantic Senbound States, The cold wave extended southward from the Canadian north -west to the interior of Florida. Chilling winds lowered the temperatures in the south west, and only the Pacific States enjoyed pleasant weather. Government weather observers, declare that uncomfortable tempera cures below freezing will prevail in the middle west to-day and to-morrow. The snow storms ould reac-h into Illinois and Indiana by to-night, and could extend with varying intensity across much of the nation.

Emergency relief measures for unemployed were continued in many cities. Despite the extraordinary provisions for sheltering the destitute, two unemployed men died of exposure in Chicago and one at Minneapolis. Their bodies were found in allevs and barns.

Agricultural authorities of the Central States, said that the unusually early winter would result in millions of dollars of loss to farmers, unless the snow thawed. Streams and wells were at low levels, and farmers would find it necessary to sell cattle, unless water supplies were replenished early. The snow would also prevent livestock from finding forage in the harvested maize and grain fields.