FIERCE BLIZZARD
(Press Assn.-
HITS U:S:Al COAST hmavy snow fallg and many persons frozen to death FORTY-TWJO BiE(LOW
— By Telegraph— Copyrlght).
(Rec. 7 p.m.) New York, Dec. 26. Following ia clear temperate Christmas half the nation ds "buried in snowdrift to-day as the eastern section of the United States was siiruck by a blizzard extehding northward and into ifche middle west. Added to automobile accident^ the casualties oyer tiie week-end are estimated nlt over 200 deadTlhie rolleps capsized twb fishing tugs and eight men were drowned in icy waters within sight of the shore. An unestimated number have ibeen tfrbzen to death. Shipping albnc.. th'e Atlantic sea poiits ahd the Greatlakes is distupted and railway and automobile transpoiitation is delayed. 'The coldest weather is reported at Minnisota whei'e xt is 42 degrees below zea'O. Nearly a foot of snow fell in New York, which is a record for seven years. Temporal-y work in removing the snow was given to 18,000 unemployed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 725, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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