Show r STORM DEATH TOLL loLl REACHES IN INA NATION Floods and Bitter itter Cold Brin Bring Suffering Blizzard Hits Atlantic Coast Coasty I By y Associated Winter storms and floods spread pread death d ath and suffering over the coun country co un tr try toda today The weathers weather's death list numbered approximately Heavy snows in the eat east bitter coldIn cold coldIn coldin In the midwest floods in the south and Pacific northwest and snows inthe in inthe inthe the southeast that southeast that was the nations nation weather r picture A ga gale e tore the barge Pattie Morris Morris- sette iette from her towing tug off the Delaware capes and her crew of or three 0 per perished c Ten persons were reported dead in floods in northern Mississippi sippi an and ani four lour in Tennessee TenneSee Pro Property pert damage was estimated at al At Doucet Quebec the temperature dropped t to 60 de degrees re s below Y IQ zero I New York City lay Jay under 17 5 Inches of or snow the heaviest sl fall faU inears in while temperatures hovered at ears s years 9 above East Coast Snowbound Maine was virtually snowbound Not a bus moved in the state Rail Bail Rails s service was crippled At Fitchburg Mass l year old Jean Swanston went vent out to play in the snow sno snoA A foot 20 snowbank r down on her Fifty men dug her out uninjured While tho northern states slates and part 0 of I the south remained in the grip of J the thc seasons season's vors weather some ome moderation was forecast for tomorrow tomor r row w for the snow laden east and the I IE E southeast Temperatures were already al ready reported to have ha risen somewhat somewhat some some- what whal over the western Cam Canadian dian provinces and the extreme northern plain plains and there was a promise of or orr r relief lie today in the midwest where I cold records of or 50 years years' standing were broken Meanwhile nearly nearh a score deaths in inthe inthe the thc flood waters o of the south where rivers ers were on a wild rampage helped to sw swell ll the total of or weather fatalities Cold Brings Suffering Ten of the dead perished in northern north em ern un Mississippi Four additional deaths were reported from Tennes zee ee Relief Relie workers worked at top Continued on Pare Page Two STORM DEATHS MOUNT TO Continued from Pate Pan One On speed to bring aid to the homeless cold and hunger added to the problems problems lems of the victims iet ms From to 1000 persons were believed believed be be- cl clinging to roof and tree tops in the flood area around Sledge ML Miss Overflowing cr creeks k and rend flooded rivers also played havoc in West Virginia Vir ginia two persons ons were killed hilled The state slate was VoRS blanketed by a 8 heavy fall L of ot snow Streets highways and homes in the lowland areas of ot the state of Washington Washington Wash ington remained under water as a result of or thaws that followed an avalanche avalanche ava ava- lanche of ot snow now earlier during the past week The bUz blizzard rd swept east and New Nev England were digging out of one of 01 the heaviest snowfalls in many years City Offers Shelter More than 16 inches of snow had fallen in New York City by midnight last night Four persons died High L winds that reached gale Jale velocity a added to 10 the suffering and municipal l lodging houses in iii the m metropolis were ordered kept open all night to c care are for the unfortunate A blizzard ripped through Boston Traffic by air and sea rea was paralyzed Philadelphia had bad its ils worst snowstorm i in n two two decades Ten weather deaths I were counted In Pennsylvania Schools were closed In New Haven Conn Cona While the storm was at Its height t a passenger train was derailed near nesi Woodbridge N. 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J but the 70 passengers gers escaped serious rious injuries They r were merely shaken up Three members mem memo bers hers of ot the crew however were In in- Snow v Blocks Traffic The snow was from eight to 15 If inches deep in Maryland blocking traffic and extended far tar down into inte the sunny south It was so chilly r at Miami Fla ha that the fight ficht scheduled sched tiled between n Barney Ross of Chicago Chi cago and his California challenger Frankie Klick had to be put ot off until i next Monday night Parts of ot Louisiana Alabama Arkansas Ar kansas and Tenn Tennessee ee also ilio were snow Arp p laden Weather accidents caused two I d deaths in Kentucky that sagged as lo low lowas as an unofficial ial 55 below zero at Frederick Wis brought suffering and death to 10 the middle west Four weather deaths were attributed to the weather in Minnesota and were added to the total of ot more than 70 71 who perished earlier in the w week k in storms that swept various se sections of ot the country Oklahoma had a dozen deaths for lor the entire cold snap Eight Below In Chicago o oIt It was 8 below zero in Chicago with a further drop forecast or ast before lore the moderation begins Up in Iroquois Iro Iro- Falls Fails Ont the mercury mercur dropped fo to 73 below close below close to lo theall the theall all time Canadian n low of minus 78 i recorded back in 1910 Mild weather however er was the rule yesterday in Colorado New Mexico and Wyoming but Montana remained in the grip of subzero tern tern- Far down In South America the residents were complaining about the heat The thermometer reached at one point in in Argentina NEW YORK Jan 24 F Buried W-Buried Buried under one of the heaviest snowstorms in in years ears the eastern part of the nation na na- tion shoveled its way slowly back to normal toda today p The storm played havoc with transportation as Ui heavy drifts cov- cov ere ered railroads 7 and highways Some sections of ot the eastern seaboard Jola isolated ted were halted VIrtually H i III all allu airplane traffic was although a forc forecast t of oC clearing weather er gave save promise that some schedules mi might ht be resumed later in the me day New York which staggered under a Inch 16 ic r iVi snowfall biggest j in 15 years put more than men to lo work vork clearing en ng streets streets- Of Ot this thia number over were drawn from relief relict rolls roUs for lor emergency work Cost of the work was estimated at nearly 1000 Long Island was hard hit and many roads were completely blocked Doz ens of motor cars were abandoned by the roadside J JAt At least four lour deaths as a result of the storm were reported in New York during the last 24 hours New Jersey counted two train derailments de de- ra among the results of the blizzard The engineer of the New Jersey Central train was killed when his locomotive left the rails as it U was entering the East Rahway station A Pennsylvania train was wao derailed derailed at Woodbridge c resulting in injuries to the engineer and fireman Snow Snow- jammed switches caused both wrecks Six men were snowbound O on a lonely island near Seaside Park N N. N J J. J after they had been left behind by a party which rescued 15 persons in including mn- mn eluding nine children from a stranded strand strand- ed bus |