INTENSE COLD
A CHILLY CHRISTMAS. SEVERAL DEATHS REPORTED MUCH SUFFERING CAUSED. BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. NEW YORK, Dec 27. The cold wave is increasing in intensity and is spreading over a wider area in the United States. The mercury ha.s been lowest in Nile City, Montana, where it reached 28 degrees below zero, while in Montreal it is 13 degrees below, in Chicago 8 degrees below, in New York 7 degrees above, and in Atlanta, Georgia, 18 degrees above. There have been three deaths from cold in New York and a total’of nine in Chicago. Coastguards in a freezing gale attempted to rescue the crew of five from a schooner aground in Chesapeake Bay. Fires totalled fifty in New York and 130 in Chicago. Numerous automobile accidents resulted from the icy streets. Suffering is especially acute among the families of the striking anthracite miners in Pennsylvania. Mission societies all over the country are l taxed tb the utmost to provide food and shelter for unfortunates. _ Weather forecasters predict no relief lie fore the new year.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 29 December 1925, Page 5
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