DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE
FEARFUL COLD IN AMERICA.
TWENTY-EIGHT BELOW ZERO.
NEW YORK, January 29.
The United States and Canada are shivering under a wave of extreme cold. Terrific winds reached a velocity of 84 miles an hour. Suffering was increased in some localities by a shortage of coal due to ,the strike.
The police are sheltering the homeless. Only parts of the south escaped zero weather. The following temperatures were registered: Montreal 11 below zero, Winnipeg, 19 below zero, Port Arthur 28 below zero, Philadelphia 6 above zero, Northvill (Vermont) 16 below zero..
Twenty deaths are. already reported mostly from fires due to overheating, several from exposure, and one from the explosion of an overheated furnace. .
Argentina is suffering from a heat wave.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4933, 1 February 1926, Page 2
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