Imperial Valley press., 1929-02-14
TRAGEDY
ST TALkS
EUROPE
Intense Suffering From
Extreme Cold Through
out Continent.
LOW MARK IS MAD1
Thermometer Drops To Z
Degrees Below Zero II
Poland.
BY United Press Leased Wire

BY United Press Leased Wire
LONDON, Feb. l4.-Intense co
paralyzed Europe today, causin|
death and suffering over the who
continent.
\ serious fuel and food shorta
occurred in several sections, tranI
portation systems were hampered 81
verely and it was feared the rati|
of deaths would mount unless relid|
came.
Such widespread cold has nevd
been known before. A temperatuIt
Of rs below zero was reported il
Poland. Only once in history has
lower temperature been recorded o|
earth. That was in north central 81
IBERIA, where it was 90 below in 1911
Between 10000 and 10000 die|
during the past four months froi
disease, accidents and shipwrecH
resulting from the cold, and froI
freezing. More than 5000 deatl|
were attributed to influenza, gripH
and pneumonia.
Deaths from freezing and accI
dents since Saturday have reacheI
121.
The food and fuel situation
becoming acute in many PLACED
Trains were unable to carry foO|
and fuel into some cities.
| Fifty persons collapsed wit
! frozen ears, hands and feet whe
10000 assembled to received a sma
ration of free coal, central radi
! dispatch from Budapest said.
All Berlin snnoois except those
! poor districts were ordered closd
! for 4 week TO conserve fuel.
A supply of food and rum wd
! dropped to the steamer Sym, frozd
in the Baltic Sea, from an airplarI
| yesterday. Other planes will be sci
to Trieschen Island to drop drinl
ing water to the Hamburg Chi
! dren s sanitarium.
Snow on Riviera
Cannes, on the French River:
I was struck by a storm leaving 81
inches Of snow and freezing weathei
a gypsy, his wife and their thre
young children went from house t
house at Trina, Slavonia, beggin
| for shelter from the cold Tuesda
night, Belgrade dispatches sait
The five were found frozen to deaf
in a field near Trina yesterday.
French officers of the army @
occupation at Landau, Bavari;
Withdrew all possible sentries whe
40 collapsed on duty and anothe
died from the cold.
For the first time since 1888, tn
lagoon and canals of Venice wer
ice covered.
Zero temperatures were reporte
from Berlin and Danzig and II be
low zero from Breslau.
The German battleship Sehleswil
| Holstein, continuing its attempt t
rescue icebound ships in the Balti
Sea, was rammed by the Angus
Thyssen, which it had approaehc
to aid.
WASHINGTON, Feb. l4.-Foi
nation of three low pressure area
over the middle Atlantic, Mcditci
ranean and Iceland combined wit
very high pressure areas over col
tinental Europe and Russia are rei
ponsible for the unprecedented col
weather there, the United State
weather bureau here explained &,
! day.
Roughly speaking, Europe is in
wedge, between low pressure area
on three sides, it was explained. Tn
tendency of air is always to moy
from areas of high to low pressur,
consequently great blats of col
arctic atmosphere have been sen
down over Europe,
cit is an exaggerated form oe
fairly frequent condition. on,
the bureau scientists explained. &C..
sinsgr formation of pressure q 20
often have appeared over EuI.
but they usually are changed ui'.
/ in a few days"
Europe may hope for relief,
was said only when these pre- .ll
! areas shift.
The bureau was skcptieal of Mo-
idea that a change in the cours
the Gulf Stream was respons..J
/ for Europe : arctic condition.