Show MEET DEATH IN EAST STORM By United Pre Freu T The e most severe and widespread storm of or the winter blew out to sea off ocr the New England coast today leaving dead and traffic o of more t than an half halt the country snarled narl by snow Temperatures dropped rapidly in inthe inthe inthe the thickly populated cast as th the skies cleared creating intense suffering suffering suf suf- fering among thousands of the poo poor in metropolitan centers and hampering hampering ham ham- the work of highway cr crews crew ws fighting to open pen smothered high high- ways There was no such temperature In the country today as the theu 44 below be be below low zero that northern Minnesota experienced Saturday but only th the most extreme south and w west st es escaped escaped escaped es- es freezing All the North Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic coast was embedded in snow that slowed trains and almost halted motor traffic The midwest am and north to the western slope of oC th the were digging out of snow that fell Friday and Saturday Typical morning temperatures to today to- to day were 26 below zero at Bismarck N. N D. D 12 below at Minneapolis am and St St. Paul 6 at Chicago and Detroit 13 at New York and 23 at Atlanta Aside from temperature New Ne NewYork NewYork York City was the hardest hit com corn Eight inches of snow snow 17 i inches of ot precipitation precipitation-feU precipitation fell fell on Manhattan Manhattan Man Man- hattan yesterday In suburbs th the t fall ll was 15 inches Fifty thousand men and snow snowplows snowplows plows worked all Saturday night all aU day yesterday all alt last night ant and today Still they had cleared only the most vital Motor Moto I traffic was almost impossible while the snow fell feU and hundreds of ot motorists motorists mo mo- who attempted it stalled in streets I A traffic jam of catastrophic proportions proportions pro pro- portions occurred on the Alban AlbAny post road near FIshkill N. N Y after an automobile and a snow plow plo collided In the half halt hour require to clear away the wrecked vehicles vehicle several hundred other m motor tor cars car were blocked Several stalled across the road When an ambulance arrived fo for two injured per persons ons it was halted halte a mile away State police carrIed carrie Miss Sharon Holland 20 of ot Albany Albany Al Al- bany to the ambulance on a aI I stretcher Snow plows dispatched to th the scene from Albany were unable t to reach the center of the jam Hundreds Hundreds Hun Hut of persons abandoned the their cars on the road and walked through deep drifts in degree 12 cold to Fishkill Fishkill Fish Fish- kill four foOr o lr miles away Scores o ot of women and children arrived staggering staggering staggering stag stag- gering in exhaustion The heaviest loss lass of life occurred along the Florida Alabama border borde where tornadoes killed 18 More Mor than 40 were injured Red Cross Cros officials asked contributions Nine persons died In New York most from heart disease aggravated ted by walking in a mile 50 an hour hou wind Accidents and cold killed kille more than 20 in m New England Three died in Philadelphia two i in Cleveland Snowdrifts in the Berkshire am and Allegheny mountains reached grea great depths Many highways were Impassable impassable im Im- Im passable even to tractor driven plows A wind that frequently frequent touched 60 60 miles an hour piled pile drifts 12 feet deep in Massachusetts and New York Public schools of ot almost all rura rural communities in the storms storm's pat path were closed today Even some cities citie Scranton Pa for one round one foun th that t children could not reach th the b buildings Movement of ot the storm to se sea forced all but the largest vessels t to seek shelter Passenger liners arnved arrived ar are ar- ar rived coated with i ice e and snow snowa a an and d several hours behind schedule Trains between Chicago and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York ran from 30 minutes to two tw hours late Buses north and west of Washington were forced to caneel caneel can can- eel schedules entirely over some som routes No airplane had left New v ark airport since Wednesday b schedules were to be resumed day j t Bitter cold gripped the the wake of heavy snow At verly Iowa the tempera dropped to 24 degrees below r. r a v Two other Iowa points Fort De DoJ and Ottumwa reported 21 beland bel f fand and it was 14 below at At Devils Devil's Lake N. N D D. the mett mer slid to o 18 below j 4 |