COLD WAVE IN AMERICA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21197, 1 December 1930, Page 9

COLD WAVE IN AMERICA

UNUSUALLY EARLY WINTER. SNOW IN SEVERAL STATES. MANY DEATHS REPORTED. (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CHICAGO, November 28. New snowstorms, descended from Western Canada to-day, when sub-zero temperatures and heavy blizzards were general, adding further hardships to the winter’s first cold wave, which has already taken 100 or more lives in the northern half of the United States. Temperatures of from zero to 14 degrees below were general in Minnesota, Dakota, Northern lowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana. The temperatures in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Alabama dropped toward freezing point to-day, and snow was reported from North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky, and the North Atlantic seaboard States.' The cold wave extended southward from the Canadian north-west to the interior of Florida. Chilling winds lowered the temperatures in the south-west. Only the Pacific States-enjoyed pleasant weather. The Government weather observers said that uncomfortable temperatures, below freezing point, would prevail in the Middle West to-day and to-morrow. The snowstorms would reach into Illinois and Indiana by to-night, and would extend with varying intensity across much of the country. Emergency relief measures for the unemployed were continued in many cities. Despite the extraordinary provisions for sheltering the destitute two unemployed, men died of exposure at Chicago, and one at Minneapolis. Their bara were folmd in aileys and in a The agricultural authorities in the Central States said that the unusually early Winter would, result in losses amounting to millions of dollars to farmers unless the snow thawed. The streams and wells were at low levels, and the farmers would fihd it necessary to sell their cattle unless the water supplies were replenished early. The snow would also prevent the live stock from finding, forage in the harvested maize and gram fields.