BUZZARD IN AMERICA
DEATH AND MISERY IN ITS TRACK WORST FOR 15 YEARS Reed. noon. VANCOUVER, Tliurs. The worst blizzard in 15 years is sweeping the middle west States and the Canadian prairies. Sleet and snow have tied up the lake, road, and rail traffic, causing great misery in the poor quarters of the cities. The blizzard dislocated 1 raflic in Ontario yesterday, and then moved southward through the Mississippi Valley. The death-list runs from 30 to, 40. A feature of the snowfall of 15 inches is that thousands of motorcars have been left stranded or abandoned on the roadside- the drivers being utterly unable to proceed. Huge snowdrifts were piled up in the howling gale. Springfield (Illinois) reports that 600 automobiles have bean lost in snowdrifts, some of which are ten feet high. Some small-town newspapers depended only on radio for their news, all the wires being down. Several places in the Canadian West reported that the mercury was 40 below.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 851, 20 December 1929, Page 9
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