A BLIZZARD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19718, 8 December 1926, Page 7

A BLIZZARD

IN THE UNITED STATES LARGE AREA SWEPT A SEVERE EXPERIENCE MANY DEATHS REPOSTED ICE JAM IN GREAT LAKES Ey Telegraph—Per Press Asan.—Copyright. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The worst early December snowstorm for 40 years blanketed the entire East from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic Coast and from Montreal to Delaware breakwater. Twenty-five lives are already reported to have been lost, and the total casualties are expected to be even higher. Shipping suffered severely, and 140 freighters, manned by 2000 seamen, are locked in' the worst ice jam in tne history of the Great Lakes. At St. Mary’s River, food is low and there is a serious danger of famine unless supplies can bo rushed forward quickly. The freezing weather, with the thermometer below zero in many parts of the country, has added to the suffering. There were twelve deaths in New York City, six in Boston, three in Detroit, and two in Chicago. Forty boats are locked in the tee in the canal at Albany. STEAMERS HELD IN ICE GRAIN FREIGHTERS A DISMAL OUTLOOK OTTAWA, Dec. 6. A message from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, states that duo to the extreme cold a fleet of 121 vessels carrying grain destined for the Atlantic seaboard and freighters loaded with coal for Western Canada and the United States, are frozen in St. Mary’s River. Fifteen million bushels of grain and many hundred thousand tons of coal, together with the ships valued at nearly a billion dollars, will, unless relief comes quickly, bo unable to move before the spring. TOLL IN CANADA HEAVY LOSSES TO SHIPPING TRAFFIC PARALYSED AND COMMUNICATION BROKEN Received Dec. 7, 11.20 p.m. HALIFAX (Nova Scotia), Dec. 7. One death, four persons injured, and 500,000 dollars loss of shipping, involving the wrecking of a dozen sailing craft and seveitil small steamers, while land traffic was paralysed and telegraphic and telephone communication interrupted in three maritime provinces of Canada, form the toll taken by the blizzard which swept the Atlantic seaboard for 24 hours. Vancouver reports state that a message from Sault St. Marie that ten , vessels, imprisoned in the ice tit St. Mary’s River, were liberated, but many others are still held up.