AMERICAN BLIZZARD.
MANY DEATHS OCCUR.
STREET-TRAFFIC DELAYED.
MILK FAMINE FEARED.
TWO TOWNS IN DARKNESS
SCHOONERS RUN ASHORE,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
New York, March 3." Terrific snowstorms are reported throughout the Eastern States, and eight deaths have occurred. The railroads are idle and street traffic is delayed.
A milk famine is feared owing to the grains carrying farm produce being unable to reach New York. . The wireless systems throughout the country arc dislocated, and are unable to communicate with ships off the coast.
Trenton (New Jersey) and Hoboken were in ' darkness yesterday owing to the breakage of the electric power lines.
Several schooners arc ashore, and one man has been drowned.
Philadelphia is suffering severely from the blizzard.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15548, 4 March 1914, Page 9
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