Evening star., 1927-12-09
50 DIE IN BLIZZARD;
SCORES MAROONED;
SHIPS ARE MISSING
Entire Country Swept by
Wind and Cold; Temperature
ID Below in MiGdIe West.
LAKE VESSELS WRECKED;
PORT CITIES INUNDATED
More Floods Hit New England.
Mercury Goes to 81 Below
Zero in Canada.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 9.-More than
30 persons have met death in the SUBJ
zero blast and blizzard which yester-
day continued to fan the continent
from coast to coast.
Abatement of the snowfall and high
wind which piled drifts so high in Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Iowa as TO de-
lay trains and block highways ana
which sent rescue boats scurrylng
along the Great Lakes shores TO alo
crews of foundering vessels, does not
mean the mercury will begin a quick
climb. weather officials said. They pre-
dicted the cold spell would reach It's
peak today, but would remain OF SUI
ficient intensity for a few days to keep
the weather a constant topic OF con-
versation.
Nine Deaths i'm Chicago.
Chicago reported nine deaths d1-
rectlv attributable to the cold, and the
remainder of Illinois four; Canada s
blizzard toll reached eight today, with
the finding of bodies OF two unldenu-
fed sheep-herders. Iowa reported TOUR
dead; Wisconsin, three, and MIME
sofa, two.
While northern Minnesota and Wis
consin remained partially snowbound,
Iowa cities were gradually restoring
, communication and traffic. Missouri,
Illinois and Indiana and surrounding
States experienced the cold without
snow. The frigidity was severe as far
west as California and south to the
Gulf States, taking in virtually the
entire nation.
Chicago and vicinity We're promised
slight relief after today's early morn
ing below-zero mark, and higher tenn
peratures were promised for western
Iowa, where the temperature dropped
as low as IA below.
st. Paul schools were closed yester-
day for the second successive day,
while street cars pushed uncertainty
through the city.
81 Below i'm Canada.
The mercury hit the bottom of the
glass in some British Columbia and
Alberta cities, where the readings
were as low as 81 below zero.
Three freight boats. held in Lake
Superior ice, were released by tugs,
while two others were unaecounted for
and were believed to have sought shell
ter near Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The
crew of the steamer Agawa, aground
off Manitouolin Island, near Colling-
wood, Ontario, was reported in no i'm
mediate danger, but waiting for the
wind to abate to leave the boat. A Coast
Guard cutter was dispatched from Two
Harbors, Minn., to rescue the crew of
the Canadian freighter Algonquin, on
the rocks at Copper Harbor, 100 miles
away. The vessel was reported so
badly damaged it probably could not
be moved before Spring.
Marooned aboard a floating derrick
$500 feet from land was a Sandusky,
Ohio, watchman, whose name is un-
known.
Salesmen's Cars MaroOned.
Statesmen who had driven their auto
mobiles to Rhinelander, Wis, Tuesday
faced the prospect of storing their ma
chimes for the Winter.
Near Mercer, Wis, snow plow and
engine on a Chicago & Northwestern
track crashed into a bridge, supports
of which had been partially chopped
away. A lumberjack who shot himself
on a train Thursday was to be ques-
toned. Blocked roads and impaired
telegraph and telephone communlca-
ton virtually isolated that northern
wisconsin section.
One steamer was reported to have
foundered and another to have gone
aground in word from Fort William,
Ontario.
A report from Ishpeming, Mich,
that $50 men We're marooned without
food in a mine near there proved to be
untrue. Officials said they had been
unable to get to their homes because
of the storm, but had been made COM
Portable in mine buildings.