CANADIAN BLIZZARD

Northern Advocate, 21 December 1929, Page 9

CANADIAN BLIZZARD

MANY HUMAN VICTIMS HUNDREDS OP CABS LOST. TRAPFEC TIED UP. (United Press Association —By. Eleetrl* Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received 3 p.m-.) VANCOUVER, December 19. The worst blizzard known for 15 years is sweeping' the Middle West States and the Canadian prairies. Sleet and show tied up lake, road and rail traffic, causing great misery " in. the poor quarters of the cities. The blizzard dislocated traffic.in Ontario yesterday and then moved." southward through the Mississippi . Valley. The death list runs from 30 to 40. A feature of the snowfall of 15 inches is that thousands of motor cars are left stranded or abandoned on roadsides, the drivers being utterly unable to proceed. Huge snowdrifts, piled up in the howling gale. Springfield, Illinois, reports that 600 automobiles were lost in snowdrifts, some of Avhich were 10 feet high. 'Some small town newspapers depended only on radio for their news, all the wires being down.

Several places in the Canadian West reported the mercury at 40. degreea, below zero .l STATES VISITATION. _L- -v THIRTY-SIX FATALITIES; DESPERATE CONVICTS -ESCAPE, (Received 8.3 S a.m.) NEW YORK, December 20. Thirty-six persons are known to ‘be, dead as the result of lashing, snow* storms and* bitter cold in the middle and western s States.' Transportation . and communication, are disrupted over a wide area. - (Seven peoplo.died-in Chicago city* Where 'business is 'disrupted, . Hotelsare packed with people’ who 1 are unable to reach their hbmee itndhr coyer of an unpenetrable curtain of snow* Six- prisoners man-handled the guard and escaped from the . Cook ■ County, Gaol, in the heart of the city. ThreO of the escapees are recorded ai "deß* perate." ’* The Great Lakes traffic isretarded. ■ •.