INTENSE BLIZZARD

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 35, 11 February 1936, Page 8

INTENSE BLIZZARD

CENTRAL U.S.A,

PROBLEM- OF SUPPLIES

Uuited Press Association—by Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 9. While the Atlantic seaboard enjoyed warm sunshine today after three weeks of bitter cold, the entire middle of the continent area from Pennsylvania to the Rocky Mountains was gripped by one of the most intense blizzards of this century. At places in North Dakota temperatures of 30 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, were registered, while zero weather extended as far south as St. Louis, and freezing weather to the Gulf of Mexico.. Heavy snows forming mountainous drifts blocked railways in many sections, and aviators reported thousands of motorists stranded. It is estimated that at least 20 people, perhaps many more, have died of cold in the last 24 hours. The problem of food, coal, and milk delivery is becoming acute in many communities. Sections of Kansas witnessed a strange freak of nature when the dust storms of last year were repeated, although the finely-pulverised soil was turned into frozen mud, which spattered buildings. Seven Civilian Conservation Corps workers are faced with a perilous situation. While working on ice in a bay near Brewster (Massachusetts), the part on which they were broke off and drifted into the Atlantic. Coastguard cutters are Cruising the area searching for them. -. , I