BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 62, 11 February 1936, Page 7

BLIZZARD CONDITIONS.

CENTRAL UNITED STATES. NEW YORK, Feb. 9. 'While the Atlantic seaboard enjoyed a warm sun today after three weeks of bitter cold, the entire middle com tinent area from Pennsylvania to the Rocky Mountains was gripped by one of the most intense blizzards of this century. Points in North Dakota registered temperatures of 30 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, while zero weather extended as far south as St. Louis, and freezing weather to the Gulf of Mexico. Heavy snows forming mountainous drifts blocked railways in many sections, and aviators reported thousands of motorists stranded. It is estimated that at least 20 people, perhaps many more, have died of cold in the last 24 hours. The problem of food, coal and milk delivery is becoming acute in many communities. Sections of Kansas witnessed a strange freak of nature when the dust storms of last year were repeated, although the finely-pulverised soil was turned into frozen mud, which spattered buildings. Seven Civilian Conservation Corps workers are facing a perilous situation. While working on ice in a bay near Brewster (Massachusetts), the part on which they were broke off and drifted into the Atlantic. Coastguard cutters are cruising the area in search of them.