BUZZARDS SWEEP U.S.A. TAKING A HEAVY TOLL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19240, 29 November 1930, Page 1

BUZZARDS SWEEP U.S.A. TAKING A HEAVY TOLL.

Winter Has Already Caused More Than One Hundred Deaths.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—-Copyright.) (Received November 29, 8.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, November 28. Snow storms descended from Western Canada today, when sub-zero temperature and heavy blizzards were general, adding further hardship 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 zero were general in Minnesota, Dakota, northern lowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. 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, and chilling winds lowered temperatures in the south-west. Only the Pacific States enjoyed pleasant weather. The Government weather observers say that uncomfortable temperatures, below freezing, will prevail in the Middle West to-day and to-morrow, and that snow storqis will reach into Illinois and Indiana by to-night, and will extend with varying intensity across much of the nation. Emergency relief measures for the unemployed were continued in many

cities, but, despite the extraordinary provisions for sheltering the destitute, tw T o unemployed men died of exposure in Chicago and one in Minneapolis. Their bodies were found in alleys and barns. The agricultural authorities in the Central States say that the unusually early winter will re§ult in one million dollars loss to farmers unless the snow thaws. Streams and wells are at low? levels, and farmers will find it necessary to sell their cattle unless the water supplies are replenished. The early snow will also prevent livestock from finding forage in the harvested maize and grain fields.