ICY WINDS
INTENSE COLD IN AMERICA DEATH ROLL MOUNTING Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, February 11. Intense cold still grips the Middle West, with the weather bureau promising no relief for several days. Icy winds blowing across the Central States added to the suffering, and the death roll resulting from the cold during the past three weeks is now estimated to exceed 200. Three fishermen who were marooned on floating ice in 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 receipt of reports of profiteering in coal, the authorities at Washington indicated that they were considering fixing emergency prices.
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Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 9
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134ICY WINDS Evening Star, Issue 22261, 12 February 1936, Page 9
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