VERY COLD WAVE

Feilding Star, Volume 3, Issue 552, 29 December 1925, Page 5

VERY COLD WAVE

OVER UNITED STATES • DEATHS REPORTED (Aust. and N.?Z. iCable). New York, Dee. 27. The cold wave reported yesterday is increasing in. intensity and spreading over a wider area in the United States. The mercury has been lowest in Nile City, Montana, where it reached 28 degrees below, in Chicago 8 below, in New York 7 above and m Atlanta, Georgia, 1-8 above -sse.ro were recorded.

There have been three deaths from cold in New York, and a total of nine in Chicago. 'Coastguards; in a freezing gale, are attempting to .rescue a ..crew of live from a schooner aground in Chesapeake Bay.

hires totalled 50 in, New York and 130 .in Chicago.

Numerous aulomribile accidents resulted from the- icy.. streets Suffering is especially acute among families of siriking anthyacitc .piiners Jn Pennsylvania;. Mission societies all over the country are taxed to the utmost to provide food and shelter for unfortunates.

Weather forecasters predict no relief before the New Year.