DEATHS IN U.S.A.
OVER 200 IN THREE WEEKS
NEW YORK, February 10,
Intense cold still grips the Middle West, ■ and the Weather Bureau promises no relief for several days. Icy winds blowing across the central States added to the suffering, and the deathroll resulting from the cold during the past three weeks is now estimated to exceed 200.
Three fishermen marooned on floating ice on Lake Michigan have been given up as lost. From small towns throughout the States of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Nebraska, .Kansas, and Ohio came reports of exhausted or dwindling supplies of fuel and/ food, with snow-drifts blocking highways and halting some railways. On reports of profiteering in coal, authorities at Washington indicated that they were considering fixing emergency prices if it became necessary. > The seven Civilian Conservation Corps workers who were adrift on ice off the Massachusetts coast were rescued after a n\ght on the ice. An aeroplane discovered them in Cape Cod Bay and a coastguard cutter • removed them with the aid of small boats.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 11
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