FROST AND THAW
BLIZZARDS AND FLOODS
FKEAK WEATHER IN AMERICA
(Received 18th January, 12.30 p.m.) CHICAGO, 17th January.
I The North American Continent has been suffering from freak weather for the past ten days in a manner resulting in a hundred deaths. While Chicago shivered at 5 below to-day, Valier, Montana, registered 38 below, and Banff, Alberta, 51. California, in the hilly areas, has been blockaded by unprecedented snowstorms. A hundred travellers have been marooned on the highways. Midland United States is suffering from an unusual thaw, and 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 the result of an overflow of the Wabash.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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137FROST AND THAW Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 15, 18 January 1930, Page 9
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