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Show COLD WAVE HITS CENTRAL WEST THERMOMETER GOES DOWN TC FREEZING 'POINT ACCOMPANIED ACCOM-PANIED BY SNOW Blizzard Rages fln Michigan; Storrr Especially Fierce Along Superior; Super-ior; 2 Below at St. Paul; Snow Covers Chicago Chicago. Unseasonable cold which sent the thermometer down to freezing freez-ing and wa saecompanied by snow flurries continued Wednesday to bring shiTers to the entire central west. Snow wa6 reported as far south as Missouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and other central states sent reports that the flurries at times assumed proportions of dead-of-winter blizzard. bliz-zard. The northern section of Wisconsin Wis-consin told of a three-inch snowfall. At Chicago Wednesday morning an inch of snow covered the ground and the temperature is slightly below freezing. The central west apparently was hardest hit by the monetary return of winter, upper Wisconsin, the northern Michigan peninsula. Minnesota, Minne-sota, northern Nebraska, South Dakota Da-kota and Iowa being the chief sufferers. suf-ferers. One of the worst storms ever experienced ex-perienced during May was felt nt Milwaukee. Reports from northern Wisconsin were that freezins with snow overspread that section. Menominee, Mich., reported the worst May storm since 1S9!5. A regular reg-ular blizzard as thick as any last winter raged. Along Lake Superior, the storm was especially fierce. A northwest wind is packing ice into Whltefish bay and forcing it down St. Mary's river. The steamer Glenshee of the Great Lakes Transportation company is aground at Sweets island, near Detour. De-tour. Ashland, Wis., reports a heavy blizzard ragins and extensive Ice fields being driven about Lake Superior. |