MANY LIVES LOST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1926, Page 5

MANY LIVES LOST.

AMERICAN SNOWSTORM. SHIPPING SUFFERS HEAVILY. Press Ajsociation-Electvlc Telegraph--Copyright. (Received Tuesday, 9.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, Monday. The worst early December snowstorm for forty years blanketed the entire East from the Mississippi Valley to the Atlantic coast, and from Montreal to the Delaware breakwater. Twenty-five lives are already reported to have been lost. The total casualties are expected to be even higher, i Shipping suffered heavily. One hundred and forty freighters, manned by 2000 seamen, are locked in the worst ice jam in the history of the Great Lakes at St. Mary’s river. Their food is! low, and there is a serious danger iof famine unless supplies can be rushed quickly. Freezing weather, 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 ice in the canal at Albany. VESSELS FROZEN JN. (Received Tuesday, 10.50 a.m.) OTTAWA, Monday. A message from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, states that due to the extreme cold a fleet of 121 vessels carrying graiu, destined for Atlautic seaboard,' and freighters loaded with coal for Western Canada and the United States, are frozen in on St. Mary’s River. Fifteen million bushels of grain and many hundred thousand tons of coal together with ships valued at n'c-arly a billion dollars will, unless relief comes quickly, be unable to move before the spring.