BLIZZARD IN CANADA
DEATH ROLL MOUNTING MOVING DOWN MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, December 19. Tho blizzard dislocated tariff in Ontario yesterday, then moved southward through the Mississippi Valley. The death list runs from thirty to forty. A feature of the snowfall, which is 15in deep, is that thousands of motor cars are left stranded or abandoned on the roadsides, the drivers being utterly unable to proceed. Huge snowdrifts were piled up in a howling gale. Reports from Springfield (Illinois) state that COO automobiles are lost in snowdrifts, some of which are 10ft high. Some of the newspapers in small towns had to depend only on radio for their news, all the wires being down. Several places in the Canadian West have reported that the mercury is 40 below. i SWEEPING AMERICAN STATES. BITTER COLD AND SNOW. CHICAGO, December 19. Thirty-six persons are known to be dead as the result of lashing snow storms and bitter cold in the Middle and Western States. Transportation and communication are disrupted over a wide area. Seven people died in Chicago City, where business is disrupted. Halls are packed with people who are unable to reach their homos, which are under an impenetrable curtain of snow. Traffic on tho Great Lakes is seriously retarded.
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Evening Star, Issue 20364, 21 December 1929, Page 15
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