SEVERE SUFFERING
BLIZZAED IN AMEEICI
HEAVIEST SNOW FOR YEARS
2CEW YORK, February 26,
Tho death-roll throughout the United States reached .60 today, as a blizzard swirled through the eastern States, adding at least six to the victims of the -weekend snow, hail, rain, tornadoes, aud^cold. The south has reported that 17 .are dead because of tornadoes. Air aeeidents, fires, and train wrecks helped to'make the death-roll. • ' ■
Snow to depths ■ ranging' from nine inches to several' feet .blanketed the entire- north-eastern States.today, further .disrupting transportation and taking additional,toll of life. \ In: the metropolitan area of New York four deaths are reported, two from freezing, while two- score were injured, mostly by falls, on slippery pavements. . , . , ■, :..
Tonight snow is." still falling and is expected to continue until morning, probably resulting in the heaviest fall in New York for several decades. Forty thousand men have been mobilised to keep city streets clear, for. which 2,000,000 dollars have been appropriated, ■'.■.. ■■■;■■ ..■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 9
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156SEVERE SUFFERING Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 50, 28 February 1934, Page 9
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