BLIZZARD ON PRAIRIES
WORST FOR FIFTEEN YEARS
MOTOR-CARS. SNOWED UP
(Received 20tU December, 2 p.m.) VANCOUVER, 19th December. The worst blizzard for fifteen years is sweeping the Middle West States and the Canadian prairies. Sleet has now tied up lake, road, and rail traffic, and is causing great misery in the poor quarters of the cities. The blizzard dislocated traffic in , Ontario yesterday, and then moved southward through the Mississippi Valley. Ttie death list runs from thirty to forty. A feature of the snowfall of fifteen inches is that thousands of motor-ears were left stranded or abandoned on the roadsides, the drivers being utterly unable to proceed as huge snowdrifts piled up in a howling gale. Springfield, Illinois, reports that six hundred automobiles wore lost in the snowdrifts, some of which were ten feet high. Some small town newspapers dependid only on radio for their news, all the wires being down. Several places iv the Canadian West reported tho mercury forty below zero.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 149, 20 December 1929, Page 12
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