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CANADA AND U.S.A. . " / VAST AREAS SNOWED IN DEATH ROLL MOUNTS. TRAFFIC AT STANDSTILL., [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] - (Received 9 aim.) ' VANCOUVER, December 27. A fierce blizzard which swept Canada and the United States during'the week-end before Christmas struck with renewed fury today, and there is a steadily mounting list of fatalities. •
The blizzard crippled transport round Montreal, where the thermometer reached; 10 degrees below zero.
Eastern Canada and- the Atlantic States generally are buried under snowdrifts.
Ten people were killed in’. Minnesota and 10 in Montana ahd Michigan died from exposure, including two who were frozen to death in a stalled motor car. • Highway traffic was brought to a standstill in the rural district of Ontario, LONDON THUNDERSTORM UNIQUE OCCURRENCE. A DECEMBER SURPRISE. , (Received 9 a.m.) LONDON, December 28. Residents in London were surprised before midnight by a thunderstorm, accompanied by a blinding flash ’of lightning and torrential rain. Weather experts have no record of a similar occurrence in December. • l
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Northern Advocate, 29 December 1934, Page 9
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