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S TOLL JOll Of DEATHS MOUNTS AS OlD COLD W A Vr Many Midwest Cities Are Buried Under Record Snowfalls RELIEF IN 24 HOURS I Many J Hurt When Fast Trains Crash Crash'S S 'S By United Press New Years Year's brought zero temperatures temperatures temperatures temper temper- and suffering to the eastern half of the United States From the Atlantic seaboard to the even Including most most- parts of the south blizzards bUzzards caused acute discomfort ort A rising death toll was expected to reach several score with more than thirty deaths already reported Chicago reported nineteen deaths and St. St Louis eight Many cities eWes of the tho middle west were buried with record snowfalls Highway and railroad traffic was impaired impair d and air mall mail schedules were abandoned Several serious railroads accidents have been boon caused b by the storm NO RE RELIEF IN INSIGHT SIGHT No relief was for tor ty-four ty hours I districts were isolated and losses heavy l In livestock k were looked for tor unless the w weather ather mOderated mod mod- In New York Pennsylvania New Jersey and nd New England the thermometer thermometer ther ther- fell steadily throughout the night and more zero temperatures temperatures tempera tempera- tures were expected again tonight CHICAGO Jan 2 United Press Pres Subzero temperatures today added to the suffering ButterIng and death toll toIl caused by the blizzard which Saturday buried burled tho the middle west under a a a. blanket of snow reported In many runny sections sections-as as the tho worst on record Temperatures as low as 5 and 10 below zero may be expected generally generally gener gener- ally from rom the Rocky mountains east cast castas as far as the Alleghenies the district district dis dis- weather bureau her here said No relief can be expected for at least twenty four hours the hours the bureau said So far nineteen deaths In or near neat Chicago have been attributed to tho cold wave TRAFFIC HALTED Traffic throughout the cen central ral portions of f the country practically was at a standstill winds drifted the snow and made roads impassable forced suspension of railroad service or badly delayed It It and caused abandonment of air mail mall schedules schedule Suffering as far east as the Atlantic At At- l lantic seaboard which felt the fury of the blizzard bUzzard yesterday was re re- re reported reported por ported ed to be Intense Zero and near Continued on page 5 TOLL OF DEATHS MOUNTS AS COLD WAVE CONTINUES Continued from page 1 1 zero temperatures were general curbing holiday activities Hundreds Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hun- of at persons sought shelter from the frigid weather In police pollee stations and churches While the tho heavy snowfall was general from the Rocky mountains east to P Pennsylvania Missouri Iowa Illinois and Indiana were reported re- re re reported ported to have suffered tho the worst Drifts in do many sections were reported re vre- ported ten ten and twelve feet deep ROADS BURIED Quin Quincy Ill reported the fall the heaviest In lri the history of Its weather er bureau Roads were buried burled hinder hin- hin un under ndel n- n der del snow many feet deep The cold weather reached to the gulf g ulf toda today Louisiana Arkansas Tennessee Georgia Alabama and even Florida shivered in near zer zero o temperatures Several Se train wrecks were caused by the blinding snow At Chicago o Saturday a 3 crack Chicago AIto Alton AIton n train from Kansas City speeding inside inside- the tilt city limits to mako make up lost time crashed Into the rear endot end en enof d of ot a 3 St. St Louis mail and passenger train ain Two women were killed and an d forty persons injured TRAINS CRASH A South Bend Interurban train carrying New ew Years Year's eve plunged Into the rear end of another i interurban which had been Deen stalled by fro frozen en brakes One person was killed and more than a a score in in- in Many others were tare verd bruised and cut At Chenoa Ill III Mayor A A. A J. J Schultz led a des descue cue party to the toe relief of passengers of Chicago- Chicago St. St Louis buses marooned for several several several sev sev- eral hours by huge snowdrifts snowdrifts' Mrs Evangeline Lindbergh en route to Detroit from Mexico City where she spent the Christmas boll holi days with her famous son was forced to land at at Edwardsburg Mich last night when the Ford monoplane in which she was making mak mak- making ing the trip became lost in the storm f i A ATLANTA A. A Ga Jan 2 2 South South Southeastern eastern United States from the Macan Mason Mason Ma Ma- son can and Dixon Dixon- line lint to the Gulf of eE Mexico experienced the lowest temperatures temperatures tem tem- temperatures of the year today and with little prospect of 01 early relief It was four above zero here DENVER Jan 2 United Press After After experiencing 44 degree above zero temperatures for r ra a a. few hours Denver prepared for winter weather again today The mercury dropped from 44 above to 23 above In an hour hour and four hours flours later had slumped to 11 above and still was dropping at 9 3 I a a. a a. a m. m today Snow was falling |