OVER 200 FATALITIES
AMERICA’S WEEK-END TERRIFIC BLIZZARD (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, Dec. 27. Following a clear, temperate, Christmas, half the nation was buried in snow drifts to-day, as the eastern section of the United States struck a terrific blizzard extending northward and into the mid-west. Added to automobile accidents, the casualties over the week-end arc estimated at over 200 dead.
Ten-foot rollers capsized two fishing tugs on Lake Michigan and eight men were drowned in the icy waters within sight of shore. An unestimated number have been frozen to death.
Shipping along the Atlantic seaboard and the Great Lakes is disrupted, and railway and automobile transportation is delayed. The coldest weather is reported at Minnesota, where it is 42 degrees below zero.
Nearly a foot of snow fell in New York, which is a record for seven years. Eighteen thousand unemployed were given temporary employment removing the snow. Traffic -in New York was disorganised for seven hours. Floods in Tdaho and other parts of the middle-west have caused 5000 people to be homeless.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18282, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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176OVER 200 FATALITIES Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18282, 28 December 1933, Page 5
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