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Show Families Burn Furniture Iri.Snowbound Section BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 11 (AP) A new snowstorm iwirHtt into Buffslo and suburbs today while emergency crews struggled to open roads and administer relief to snowbound families. Snow fell rapidly In downtown Buffalo but It was not accompanied by the gales that have contributed to misery and even death since ths storm began four daya ago. Ths storm's death toll in western New York stood at six, with four others dead from snowstorms in other parts of the stats this week. Tales of suffering and dramatic rescues cams today from ths suburbs, sub-urbs, some of which were so fsr buried under snow as to bs scarcely I recognisable. One of several ski snd snowshos relief parties reported that families near Sheridan drive 'usually a busy thoroughfare had even been burning furniture for I hest One party which trudged through J ths night with groceries for snow bound homes came back with a report re-port that they had found one mother : feeding her children the last scraps of bread dipped in hot water. Other familiea wsrs also out of food, they reported. Governor Lehman announced in Albany that ths federal government had authorised use of all available equipment of the New York national guard to help municipalities In She Buffalo area "dig out" of a current bllxsard. Ail available fire equlDjneat was called out in Niagara Valla, also hard hit by the storm, when sirs swept through two downtown stores. United States Meteorologist Jamas H. Spencer said reports coming from snowbound Kenmore, Tons wanda and Amherst as wall as the north residential sections of Buffalo, Buf-falo, indicated that the storas waa (Coatmuna en Pas Twr t Column Thrall I This Is a Sample of the Weather Back East ....,.,.r h,... - - ..... JUST A FEW OF THOUSANDS OF STALLED AUTOS !ramcJarnf11lenhls Mocked Buffalo, N. V. inowplowi Families Burn Furniture For Heat in Blizzard Area (ContioiMd from Pas Ontl the worst in the history of those areas. A reporter who flew over the snowbound sone north of here reported re-ported "hundreds and hundreds" of automobiles could be seen stalled in anowdrlfts, where they had been for three or four days. Patha leading from the care In aome cases could be traced to farm houses and filling stations. In several cases, buses were off the roada and abandoned. "Everything looked dead and quiet," he aaid. Meanwhile, Ogdensburg, city of 17.000 on the St. Lawrence river 300 miles north of Buffslo, dug Its wsy out of drifts five to 10 feet deep In the wake of a aevere snowstorm. snow-storm. The weather bureau reported an average of 32 Inches of snow since the storm began In Buffalo. , A anowplow battled nine hours to break trail for an ambulance which brought back to Buffalo an expectant mother and two elderly women In urgent need of medical attention. The women had been members of parties marooned for three days, one (roup of 11 persons in a garage ga-rage and another of 37 gathered in a riding academy building. Hundreds of automobiles, trucks and busea remained atranded, and it was expected that normal transportation trans-portation would not be restored for a week. JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. Dec. 11 UPtA break In subfreeiing temperatures tem-peratures which have gripped the greater part of the aouth for the past week was indicated today. Forecasts for the Carollnaa and Georgia called for fair but continued cold weather, while farther aouth rising temperatures and probable rain was indicated. North Florida reported temperatures tempera-tures around the freesing point today, to-day, although south and central Florida waa relatively warm. BENTON HARBOR, Mich.. Dec. 11 UP One hundred sixty motorists, motor-ists, snowbound at the village of Glenn, aummer resort north of here, for three dsys, departed today after state highway plows opened the road between South Haven and Sau-gatuck. Sau-gatuck. Food became a problem that reduced re-duced the village's one restaurant to a menu of pancakes only. Opening Open-ing of the trunk highway also permitted per-mitted several Glenn boys and girls who attend high school In Bouth Haven to reach their homes for the first time since Tuesday. |