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Show Blizzards Move On East; Tornadoes in South Kill 6 Gale Fells Wires, Disrupts Seaboard Shipping; Midwest Highways Blocked By the Associated Press Snow stormi moved eastward from the middlewest today, threatening to bring ice ai an aftermath to gale-blown rain that slashed the east yesterday. Communications lines were wrecked by a 50-mile-an-hour wind In many sections; shipping along tha sesbosrd was disrupted; the rain turned into Ice in various areas, but brought some relief to New York City's wster supply, which had been fast dwindling under drouth conditions. Six persons were killed and a number injured when tornadoes (Continued on Pace Twol (Column ElKtil I STORMS WREAK HAVOCJN EAST (Continue from run OmI struck 15 miles east and SO mllea southwest of Montgomery, Ala, yesterday. Three victims died In the Mt. Meigs section and three others at Beatrice and Riley's crossing. Twenty-five or more houses were demolished. New York and New England felt the full force of the wind and rain that left widespread property damage. dam-age. Many air line canceled flights; motorist over much of the country coun-try were stalled In snow or wrecked by ice, and two passenger trains were derailed in Wisconsin. No lives were lost, and no on waa Injured In the train wrecks, but several deaths were reported from various communities because of the bad weather. Snowstorms whirled over Illinois, blocking highways, and ousted spring-like weather from many parts of Michigan, where cold rain set In to the accompaniment of snow and high winds that caused much property damage and Interrupted Inter-rupted communications. Hundred of automobiles were stalled af sluah froze on Wisconsin highway when freezing wind , brought rain and snow. The storm reached blizzard proportion In some sections of the state. Snow ceased falling In Iowa, but drift were whipped onto highways, high-ways, hampering traffic. Wind and snow damaged property and communications com-munications lines there also. Fair and Cold Weather Forecast for Utah Subzero temperatures came to higher sections of Utah Monday morning as the federal weather bureau forecast a continuation of fair weather until at least Tuesday night. Coldest weather reported to the federal bureau was that at Coalville, Coal-ville, Summit county, where the temperature dropped to 7 degrees below zero at 7:30 a. m., the same as reported at Brighton by city observer. ob-server. At Roosevelt in the Uintah Uin-tah basin the reading was exactly zero. Snow on the ground at Brighton measured 37 inches, four inches leu than on the same day a year ago. |