200 DEATHS

Grey River Argus, 12 February 1936, Page 5

200 DEATHS

U.S.A. BLIZZARD Many Places Short of Supplies (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received February 11, 10.10 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 11. Intense ec/d still grips the Middle West, with the Weather Bureau promising no relief for several days. Icy winds are blowing across the Central States, and have added to suffering. The death roll resulting from the cold during the past three weeks is now estimated to exceed two hundred. Three fishermen, 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 the highways, and halting some of the railways. On reports of profiteering in coal, the authorities .at Washington have indicated that they are considering the fixing of emergency prices if it -hould become necessary.

MEN RESCUED FROM ICE. (Received February 11, at 11.5 p.m.) BOSTON, February 10. The seven civilian Conservation Corps boys, who drifted on ice to sea yesterday, were rescued after a night on the ice. An aeroplane discovered them off Cape Cod, and a Coast Guard cutter removed them with the aid of small boats.