FREAK WEATHER.
Great Extremes Encountered In U.S.A. 100 DEATHS RESULT. (Received 9.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, January 17. The North American continent has been suffering from freak weather over the past ten days, resulting in 100 deaths. While Chicago shivered at five degrees below zero to-day, Valier, Montana, registered 3S degrees below and Banff 51. California, in the hilly areas, has been blockaded by unprecedented snowstorms. A hundred travellers are marooned on the highways. The midland of the United States is suffering an unusual thaw. A hundred thousand acres of farm lands in Southern Indiana and a smaller area in Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Tennessee are flooded. The Mississippi River system is pouring over the levees and the city of Vincennes is under water as a result of the overflow of Wabash River.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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