Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-09
WINTER RIDES
OUT Of NORTH,
70 DEATH TOLL
Temperatures, Rangin g
From Zero to So Below
Prevail in Northwest.
STOPS AIR MAIL
Middle States Are Hard Hit
By Snow Storm That
Blocks Traffic
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

| BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Riding out of Canada and the
northwest on the crest of terrific
gale, winter yesterday overspread
virtually the entire country, causing
20 deaths and resulting in heavy
damage to lake shipping, disrupting
transportation and communication
! facilities and much misery and sut-
ferSng.
Temperatures ranging from near
i zero to So degrees below prevailed
throughout the northwest states, and
! while this section attempted to dig
out of huge. snow drifts brought by
the blizzard, and tumbling mercury
the cold wave passed rapidly east
+ of the Ohio river and south to the
Gulf of Mexico, reaching cold fingers
toward the New England states on
the east and California on the west.
Weather bureau forecasts indicated
severe cold for another day. at least,
although some relief from Subzerc
temperatures in the northwest was
anticipated.
The coolest point in the United
States yesterday was Culbertson, In
northeastern Montana, which claimed
53 degrees below zero, while at Glas-
gov, in the same state, it was Al
below and numerous points reported
Is to 90 below zero
/ Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota North
and South Dakota and upper Mich
igan in addition to the cold, were
hard hit by the Snowstorm. In Min
nesota and some places in other
states schools were dismissed, while
telegraph wires and poles were down
and train service was hampered.
Air mail service virtually came tc
+ a standstill as the storm vented It's
i fury but when the weather cleared
companies having mail contracts pre-
pared to take the air again.
In central Illinois there was a
menace of floods as well as of cold
as many streams were reported run
ming bankfull and some were over
spreading the valleys.
In addition to half a dozen deaths
reported earlicr as the cold wave
reached over Canada, deaths .attri-
buted to the weather were reported
from Iowa, 4; Illinois, z, includinE
four in the Chicago district; Souti
Dakota, 1; Wisconsin. l. and Mon
tana, 1. Some of the deaths were
from exposure, some from accidents
and some from heart disease az
tributed TO the cold.
Lake vessels at Buffalo, Detroit
Milwaukee and other ports were
menaced by the gale. -Four freighter;
and passenger steamer were tori
from their moorings at Buffalo, ;
steamer was on the rocks neal
Michael bay, and boats moored II
the Detroit river were torn from
their fasteningS.
Fire added to the suffering caused
by storm and cold and at severa
points disastrous fires were reported
A group of students and severa
families were driven from their homes
in Chicago into zero temperature
by fires attributed to overheatet
furnaces and blaze at East Chicago
Ind, starting from the same cause
wiped out part of a business blocl
with loss estimated at 100000.
4 Chicago, the largest city in th
path of zero temperatures, founC
hundreds of homeless clamoring TO
shelter as the first real winte
weather struck. Scores were givel
temporary quarters in police station
and relief organizations were at
tempting to ANovide fod and warmth
for many others.
Parts of the northwest were almos
isolated from the outside world %,
the combination of cold and snow
Telephone and telegraph communica
tions we're cut off, train service wa
crippled and roads were impassabl
in parts of Minnesota, Iowa, Nortl
and South Dakota and Nebraska.