WORST WINTER STORM FOR HALF A CENTURY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 76, 30 March 1931, Page 1

WORST WINTER STORM FOR HALF A CENTURY.

' I NEW YORK, March 28. The blizzard in the Rocky Mountains and on the. plains resulted in at least twelve deaths, including the Towner bus tragedy, and three persons who are missing are believed to have perished. Scores of persons are in a serious condition, suffering from frost bite and exposure. Twenty children and their teacher were rescued from the schoolhouse at Horace, Kansas, after being isolated for two days and a night. Physicians and charity agencies are being mobilised over a wide area, including Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, the western parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

Cattle by the hundreds are standing in snowdrifts frozen to death. Temperature Below Zero. Eleven persons died in western snowstorms. A bus driver with four children from Sheridan Lake, Colorado, missing since Thursday morning, were found safe in a farm house. A seventy miles an hour gale accompanied the snowstorm and temperatures were sub-zero. It is the worst storm for half a century.