WINTRY WEATHER.
SUFFERING IN AMERICA.
INTENSE COLD REPORTED
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. The cold wave reported yesterday is increasing in intensity and spreading over a wider area in the United States. The mercury has been lowest in Nile City, Montana, where it reached 28 degrees below zero, while in Montreal 13 degrees below, in Chicago 8 below, in New York 7 above, and in Atlanta, Georgia, 18 above zero were recorded.
There have been three deaths from cold in New York, and a total of nine in Chicago. Coastguards, in a freezing gale, are attempting to rescue a crew of five from a schooner aground in Chesapeake Bay. _ Fires totalled 50 in New York and 130 in Chicago. Numerous automobile accidents resulted from the icy streets. Suffering is especially acute among families of tho striking anthracito miners in Pennsylvania. Mission societies all over the country are taxed to tho utmost to provide food and shelter for unfortunates.
Weather forecasts predict no relief before tho New Year. —A. and N.Z. cablo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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170WINTRY WEATHER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 25, 29 December 1925, Page 7
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