FREAK WEATHER
NORTH AMERICAN VISITATION. ONE HUNDRED DEATHS IN TEN DAYS. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph —Copyright.) NEW YORK, January 17. The North American continent has been suffering from freak weather the past 10 days in a manner resulting in 100 deaths. While Chicago shivered at five degrees below zero to-day, Valier (Montana) registered 38 below and Banff 51. California, in the hilly areas, has been blockaded by unprecedented snowstorms, and hundreds of travellers are marooned on the highways The midland of the United States is suffering an unusual thaw. One hundred thousand acres of farm lands in Southern Indiana, and smaller areas in Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, and Tennessee are flooded. The Mississippi River is pouring over the levees. The city of Vincennes is under water as the result of the overflow of the Wabash.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20929, 20 January 1930, Page 7
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