FATAL BLIZZARD.
Death Roll of 20 in United States. CANADA ALSO AFFECTED. VANCOUVER, December 28. A fierce blizzard which swept Canada and tlic United States during the weekend before Christmas struck with renewed fury yesterday and there is a steadily mounting list of fatalities. The blizzard crippled transport around Montreal where the thermometer touched 10 degrees below zero. Eastern Canada and the Atlantic Slates generally were buried under snowdrifts. Ten people were killed in Minnesota and 111 in Montana and Michigan died from exposure, 'including two who wcro frozen to death in a stalled motor car. Highway traffic was brought to n standstill ii v the rural districts of Ontario.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 308, 29 December 1934, Page 9
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