COLD IN AMERICA.
ALSO TERRIFIC WINDS. TEMPERATURE BELOW ZERO. TWENTY DEATHS REPORTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.)' (Rec. January 30, 8.D5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 29. The United States and Canada are shivering under a wave of extreme cold and terrific winds, which reached a velocity of eighty-four miles an hour. The suflering is increasd in some localities by a shortage of coal, due to the strike. The police are sheltering the homeless. Only parts of the South escaped zero weather. The following temperatures were recorded: —Montreal, eleven degrees below zero; Winnipeg, 19 below; Port Arthur, 28 below; New York, zero; Philadelphia, six above; Northville and Vermont 16; below. Twenty deaths have already been reported, mostly from fires due to overheating, and several from exposure. One was caused through the explosion of an overheated furnace. Argentina is meantime suffering a heat wave.
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Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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142COLD IN AMERICA. Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 5
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