TOO COLD TO BREATHE.

Mataura Ensign, 20 March 1909, Page 4

TOO COLD TO BREATHE.

Cold become* ie»lly dangerous to tnnuan life when the temperature reaches 40 degrees Mow zero I-ahieu-heit. The air is w intensely told that one- dare not make the slißhtesi nation in the open. Bronthinj; inch »:i atmosphere may actually freeze the lungs, the result of which is sudden violent pneumonia and speedy death. When the thermometer registers such extremes as forty Mow, people stay indoor:, not from choice but from iieo-«-, sitv. Januarv 19, 1904. was such a d«V. Over nearlv all Canada and most of' the-northern part of the limed States the merenrv fell to forty-eight degrees Mow zero. The results were extraordioasv. The street's .>t sreat cities like Montreal were practically deserted; business was st a standstill. People wero found frozen to death m their beds. Railway traffic was most seriously impeded. Owint: to the intensity of the frost it was impossible to keep up adequate steam. Trains were two to fire hours lste.