DEADLY BLIZZARD

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 5

DEADLY BLIZZARD

AMERICA OPENS NEW YEAR

SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED COLLISIONS MxTnEW YORK HARBOR

(United Press Assn. —Copyright.) ; . . ~ v NEW YORK, Jan. 2. From the Rocky Mountains to Chicago tiie .. country is gripped in a heavy snowstorm and' cold wave which at Calgary registered . 33 degrees, and at St. Paul 14 degrees. Four people are dead at Chicago, and several deaths fire reported from Indiana, lowa, Minnesota, and adjoining States due to freezing. The official weather forecast indicates that even the western coast will lie subjected to a protracted cold spell, with freezing temperatures in Washington and Oregon, and unusual cold in Califoryiin, accompanied by rains* The Canadian North-West is expected) as usual, to he subject to the lowest temperatures while even the Gulf states through to north-west* Florida will more or less suffer/

<• The weather in New York is now mild, but a rising wind is blowing and the forecast, indicates a zero temperature within a few hours and heavy snowstorms. Several collisions occurred in New York harbor, amongst which the liner President Hayes collided with the freighter Tarantia.

Five passenger steamers and 15 big freighters are fogbound, and unthe fog clears soon scores of additional ships, it is expected, will be unable to enter or leave the harbor. Only, one freighter managed to enter-during the last 24 hours and none was able to leave. The Mauretania and the Leviathan are imtlblc to proceed on their journeys, and traffic is bndlv disrupted. -U.P.A

DEATH ROLL ALREADY OVER FORTY

BLIZZARD SHOWS NO SIGNS OF ABATEMENT

NEW YORK,' Jan. 2. Zero temperatures are prevalent throughout the eastern half of the United States, with no relic! at present in sight. ■— • Relief organisations are expending maximum efforts tr> aid suffering from the blizzard which ushered in the New Year.

The death list, already 40, is mounting hourly. Nineteen are, dead in Chicago, eight in St. Louis, two in Pittsburgh, one in New York, and one each in several other cities. Snowfall is general, particularly in the middle west, where drifts Bft to 12ft high are reported. Roads are blocked, and train services badlv disrupted.

A storm which broke long-standing records, in the northern United States reached as far south as Texas and Florida.—A. and N.Z.C.A. BITTER COLD IN MIDLAND AND WEST STATES

TWENTY-FIVE DEATHS TN CHICAGO (Received Jan, 3, 10.30 p.m.) . NEW YORK, Jan. 2. Chicago reports that the middle and west section of the United States is overspread by bitter cold. More than two score deaths <arp attributed to cold, twenty-five of them in Chicago alone.—A. and N.Z.C.A.