COLD SNAP IN U.S.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 956, 28 December 1933, Page 1

COLD SNAP IN U.S.

Blizzard Causes Much Loss of Life. FISHING TUGS CAPSIZED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 26. Following clear and temperate weather on Christmas Day half of the United States was buried in snow drifts to-day, as the eastern section of the nation was struck by a terrific blizzard, which extended northward and into the mid-west and added to the automobile casualties over the week-end, which are estimated to include more than 200 dead. Ten-foot rollers capsized two fishing tugs on Lake Michigan, eight men being drowned in the icy waters within sight of the shore. An unestimated number w ? ere frozen to death. Shipping along the Atlantic seaboa d and the Great Lakes was disrupted, and railway and automobile transportation was delayed. The coldest weather was reported from Minnesota, w’here the thermometer fell to 42 degrees below zero Nearly a foot of snow’ fell in New York, which is a seven-year record. Eighteen thousand unemployed were given temporary work removing it.