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Show MIDWEST RECEIVES SUB-ZEMTHER SUB-ZERO WEATHER WITH SNOW AND ICY WINDS MAKES TRIP EASTWARD Snow And Cold Weather For The Entire North Eastern Section Of United States; Trains Delayed Chicago. Snow and colder weather were predicted for the entire northeastern north-eastern section of the United States, with cold waves noted for portions of Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and northern New England. Even the southland will get a taste of the passing wave, although most of the recent forecasts for that area call for only slightly colder weather. The ccld SDap will be short lived, however, as rising temperatures are expected in the central states and the far east. Already the mercury has started to rise in parts of Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Among the low temperature marks registered during the cold wave were 8 below at Omaha, Neb.; Dulutlt and j juoorencaa, Minn., 4 oeiow; unane3 City, Iowa, 2 below, and. Minneapolis, zero. Heavy falls of snow have marked the latest wave of cold weather, the white covering being general in north central states and in the Rocky mountain moun-tain areas. Rescue workers toiled twenty-four hours to tunnel through snow fifteen foet deep in drifts between be-tween Denver and Limon, Colo., before be-fore twenty persons marooned in automobiles au-tomobiles were rescued. Many trains moving eastward from Nebraska were delayed. At Chicago the mercury dropped to S above. Snow plows cleared the way for bus and street car travel. Laredo, Tex. Low temperature records rec-ords of thirty years are believed to have been broken in the usually semi-tropicalstate semi-tropicalstate of Tamaulipas,. Mexico, which is just emerging from a severe cold snap beginning in late December. Freezing, a rarity, was general, the therometer descending to 27 degrees northwest of Tampico. Heavy losses to tomato and melon crops resulted in some sections, while fruit trees suffered elsewhere. |
