SIXTEEN BELOW ZERO.
FEARFUL COLD IN AMERICA. DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE. POLICE SHELTER HOMELESS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrlfftjf.) (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 29. The United States and Canada are shivering under a wave of extreme cold. Terrific winds reached a velocity of 84 niile.-j an hour. Suffering was increased in seme 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.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 9
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