The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-18
SUFFERING, DISEASE |
INCREASED ASSNOW
STORMS Still RAGE
Arctic Gales and Subzero Tenn.
perature Tie Up Highway
Traffic in Northwest
COLORADO MINERS STARVING
More virulsnt Type Of Influenza
Follows Severe Cold in /,
Stormbound Europe :
COLORADO MINERS STARVING

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wings Of = northwest gale rs reports
OF increased suffering. disease. and
more deaths from Europe were made.
Prospective floods after the thaw.
fierce snow storms. and highway tie.
ups brought increased fears to Eur
opeans. A sergeant was killed and
two soldiers were seriously injured In
Italy when struck by q train that they
could not see because of the binding
snow, and q gas tank explosion
caused by frost In Germany brought
Injury to five.
A virulent type Of influenza has
broken out In London.
Reports that the army of shUvelers
who are cutting through mountain.
Gus snow slides in an effort to reach
Silverton and Eureka. Col, may
reach their destination In q day or
two have been made. Almost 100
miners are imprisoned In the Color.
ado cities and are at the point OF
starvation.
Decided drops In temperature were
registered In corn belt states last
night and continued cold was forecaS.
today.
Was ~ Below Here
Temperature In Bismarck at 4. ~.
was ~ degrees below zero, but the
mercury had risen to II below a
noon. North Dakota will be fair to-
night and Tuesday. It will be NOT
quite 80 cold Tuesday in the extreme
northwest portion.
y. 8. Highway No. 10 east OF Ms.
marck and the road to Minot are two
Of the few highways in the state
which are open. according to offlciais
OF the state highway department
Country roads, drifted with snow. are
impossible.
The highway commission sent I
snow plow to Linton 6atsSdav& !.
Bismarck travellers going west found
u impossible to continue beyond Man
dan yesterday. so drifted were tie
roads.
Other temperatures in the state to-
day follow. Devils Lake IS below:
Grand Forks 23 below; jamestown
70 below: Fargo 81 below: Minot -
below: and Williston q below.
international Falls, In northern
Minnesota, reported 28 below. Tenn
peratures In Minnesota ranged from
l6 below in southern Minnesota,
where drifted snow blocked roads, to
n below at Thief River Falls.
WinOna had four inches OF snow
Sunday. At Albert Lea q similar situa-
ton prevailed today, with the mercury
20 below. At Fergus Falls 1t was q be-
low, Little Falls %, Mankato 10.
Brainerd 20. Willmar 10, and Roches-
ter Is below. Roads also were driftcd
at Fergus Falls and st. Cloud.
In the Twin Cities the mercury
hovered around the 12-degree below
zero mark.
Shovelerx Near Miners
The army Of shovelers working day
and night to cut through mountain
GUS snow slides to Silverton and
Eureka, Col, where food supplies are
almost exhausted. had hopes today OF
reaching the isolated mining settle
ments within the next day or two. 1
Residents Of the towns sent word
yesterday by telephone, their only
means Of communication with tho
outside, that the food shortage rapid
" was becoming serious. Only .
small supply Of meat, butter. and
eggs was on hand, they said.
The slide at Needleton on the way
to Stlverton the greatest obstacle In
the way Of the section crews that
have been at work since Feb. 3. has
been penetrated. This slide buried
the railroad tracks under nearly 100
feet Of snow over q hall mile stretch.
In prospective thaws Z new danger
appeared for Europe today. It Is
feared that eventually there viii b
floods In which weeks accommodations
Of ice and snow in the mountain
areas will spread destruction @ they
seek outlet to the sea.
Meanwhile fierce snow storms woro
reported in central Europe. Ice conti~
tions were as bad aS ever In the
6candinavian countries. and the win.
| try winds still caused intense suffers
ing In the Balkans.
In the British Isles the cold sub
dued somewhat. The Mall today M
that with the intense cold Of the last
four days . more viruleut type q M
llueuza than London hns kucvn
heretofore made. its appearance a1H1
claimed many victtuaA
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Poland soems {. hnye had the vcGut
o6 the ceutral European snow stoG1
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