FATAL BLIZZARD.
TRANSPORT CRIPPLED. TWENTY DEATHS REPORTED. TRAFFIC AT STANDSTILL. United Press Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyright. VANCOUVER, Dec. 27. A fierce blizzard which swept Canada and the United States during the week-end before Christmas struck with renewed fury to-day and there is a steadily-mounting list of fatalities. The blizzard crippled transport around Montreal where the thermometer touched 10 degrees below zero. Eastern Canada and the Atlantic Stales generally were buried under snowdrifts.
I’en people were killed in Minnesota and 10 in Montana and Michigan died from exposure, including two who were frozen to death in a stalled motor-car.
Highway traffic was brought to a standstill in the rural districts of .Ontario.
UNPRECEDENTED STORM. EXPERIENCED IN LONDON. United Press Assn.—-Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Deo.) 28. Residents of London were surprised before midnight by a thunderstorm accompanied by a blinding flash .of lightning and torrential rain. Weather experts-have no record for a similaroccurrence in December.
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 5
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153FATAL BLIZZARD. Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 5
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