FREIGHTERS ON GREAT LAKES
EARLY WINTER IN AMERICA
SNOW BLANKETS MIDDLE EAST,
(United I'ress Association.—Copyright.) (.Received 7th December, 9 a.m.)
NEW YOKE, 6th December
The worst early December snowstorm for forty years blanketed the entire East, from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast, and from Montreal to Delaware Breakwater. Twenty-five lives are already reported lost. The total casualties are expected to be even higher. Shipping suffered heavily, 140 freight steamers, manned by 2000 seamen, being locked in the worst ice-jam in the history of the Great Lakes at St. Mary's River. Their stocks of food are low, and they are in serious danger of famine unless supplies can be rushed to the scene quickly. Freezing weather, below zero in many parts of the country, added to the suffering. Twelve deaths occurred in Now York City, six in Boston, three in Detroit, and two in Chicago. Forty boats are locked in the ico on the Erie Canal at Albany.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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