THE COLD WAVE
INCREASING IN INTENSITY
REPORTS FROM NEW YORK.
(I'NITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPIKIOHT.) (AMiKAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) NEW YORK, 27th December. "The cold wave reported yesterday is increasing in intensity and is spreading over a wider area in the United States. The mercury has been lowest in Nile City (Montana), where it reached 28 degrees below zero, while in Montreal 13 degrees below, in Chicago 8 below, in New York 7 above, and in Atlanta (Georgia) IS above zero were recorded.
There have been three deaths from cold in New York, and a total of nine in Chicago. Coastguards, in a freezing gale, arc attempting to rescue a crew of five from a schooner aground in Chesapeake B^. Fires totalled 50 iv New York and 130 in Chicago.
Numerous automobile accidents resulted from tho icy surface of tho streets. Suffering is especially acute among families of striking anthracite miners in Pennsylvania. Mission societies all over the country are taxed to the utmost to provide food and shelter for unfortunates, and weatherforecasts predict no relief before the New Year.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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178THE COLD WAVE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 155, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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