The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-20
MORE DEATHS ARE REPORTED DUE TO
COLD WAVE BLANKETINC WIDE AREA
North Pacific Coast Feels
Below Zero Temperatures
and Smudge Pots Are
Burned in California Citrus
Belt
SCORES ARE DEAD


a score Of persons were dead
today, victims, directly or indi-
rectly. Of the cold wave which
has spread and affected most Of
the nation, with little relief in
sight for at least another 36
hours.
The bitter sub-zcrO tempera-
lures continued in the North
west and in central states along
the front of the wave although
the front Of the wave now is
approaching the Atlantic Sea.
board. with the temperatures
dropping in the southern and
southeastern states.
Weather reports indicated
n continuance Of the cold for 36
hours more from Michigan and
Indiana northwestward to the
northern Rocky Regions, but
with promise that the temper
aturc would rise in the latter
region Sunday.
Chicago, Dec. 2O.-(By the A. P.)-
The icy grip of winter was slowly
relaxing in the far west and Rocky
Mountain region today, while its
clutch was tightcst in the middle
west and it reached out to cnvelor
the East. Nearly normal tempcra-
lures may be reached in most of the
cold wave areas within "a hours but
days will elapsc before water. wire
and rail communication, paralyzcd in
some sections, resume usual opera
tions.
The toll of lives continued tO
mount. Warm winds were forecast
to bring relief to the Pacific Coast
today, after Il scigc of sub-zero tenn
peraturcs in the north and heavy
frosts in California that nccessitat-
ed smudge pots in the citrus areas.
Rising temperature and fair skies
were reported in Montana and Col
oradO. A man and woman were
frozen to death in the Butte district
Three members of family of four
were burned to death at Casper,
Wyoming, following an explosion
The fourth, four-year-old boy, was
expected to die. Eight deaths were
reported in Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma, where thousands of dol
lars of property damage was done.
One man was frozen to death and
another died from injuries received
in Il fall on the ice in Chicago. where
Il l3-year-old girl may die as re-
suit of burns in gas explosion
During the night the Chicago fire
departments answered more than u
hundred calls. Occupants of two
story tenement were driven to the
street when fire destroyed the build
ing.
More than 80 degrees drop to five
below zero was recorded in Chicago
in "a hours.
Trains Lost
Middle West trains were running
from hours to more than ~ hours
late and two passenger trains which
left st. Louis Thursday were lost
somewhere in southern Missouri to-
day. Train crews were forced to
remove trees and poles felled across
the tracks by the ice.
Member newspapers of the Asso-
ciated Press, cut off from the out
side world by wire communication
cut off the outside by radio.
Dispatches brought into Chicago
by wire were radiocast by the Asso-
ciatcd Press. The jefferson City
Bureau of the Associated Press
transmitted dispatches from the
state capitol station to the Kansas
City Star station. Kansas City and
st: Louis Bureaus of the Associated
Press also communicated by radio.
Springfield. Jacksonville and other
southern Illinois points were forced
to rely on radio.
Wire facilities Of the A. =. to the
Southeast and Southwest from Chi
cago were badly crippled and much
rcrouting of lines was necessary to
bring the quota of news from these
sections into the cold wave area.