WINTER’S ICY GRIP
SUFFERINGS IN U.S.A,
MANY DEATHS REPORTED.
(Australian and N..Zk Cable Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
■'/ , NEW YORK, January 29. »The>*Ujnted States and Canada, are shivering tinder the wave of extreme cold and terrific winds, which reached a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour. The suffering is increased jn some l 'localities by the shortage ’of coal, due to the strike. The police are'sheltering the-homeless. g •' Only parts of the South have escaped the zero weather. The temperatures are recorded: Montreal, eleven degrees below zero, Winnipeg, nineteen below, Port Arthur, twentyeight below, New York, zero, Philadelphia; six above, Northville ('Vermont) sixteen below. Twenty deaths are already reported mostly from fires due to oyerheating, several from exposure ,and one through the explosion of an overheated furnace. , , Argentina, meantime, is suffering a heat wave. •
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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