New Britain herald., 1930-10-18
WINTER WEATHER ARRIVES IN WEST
Snow and Cold Strike Several
 States Yesterday

Kansas City, Oct. IS (P - Ap- preaching winter, whose first as- sault routed late autumnal warmth from the vast trans Mississippi arena, today threatened renewed at tacks.
 Montana. which enjoyed a brief respite yesterday, Wyoming, and Idaho stood in the path of the pre- saged thrust. Montana's rains of yes- terday turned to snow flurries as freezing temperatures held the state in it's grasp last night
 A minimum of 10 degrees above zero was recorded at Havre at 6 p. m., with the mercury still falling. Wyoming fared little better, Yellow stone park recording 16 above.
 Snow in Far West
 Snow ranging from a trace to three feet in the mountains blanket ed northern Idaho as hitherto mo- derate temperatures in the state joined the downward trend.
 Dry snow ranging up to 16 inches in depth covered the mountains of eastern Washington and sleet was falling in other sections.
 Freezing temperatures were gen. eral in Colorado, North Dakota, the Great Lakes region and parts of Utah. Kansas and Missouri eXperi- enced their second general frost of the season last night.
 Even New Mexico and Oklahoma failed to escape the cold. At Santa Fe it was only two degrees above freezing Oklahoma was only slight ly warmer.
 Texas Feels Relief
 Texas felt some relief today from the mortimer which swept across the state, but the weather still was crisp and chilly.
 The weather disturbances which have harassed parts of Canada and swept from the inland empire to the Gulf of Mexico have so far claimed seven lives.
 With warm farm house close at hand, five men in a motor car stall ed in a deep snowdrift, died suppos- edly from monoXide gas, near Re- gina, Sask. A Montana stockman perished in blizzard while at- tempting to drive his cattle to shel ter.
 One death was charged indirectly to the freezing temperature with flurries of snow which visited Chi cago yesterday.
 Canada Hard Hit
 Chicago, Oct. s UP)-An au- tumnal storm that swept over Can- ada with midwinter intensity, killing at least five persons and bringing traffic to a standstill in many sec tions, spread today over almost the entire northern half of the United States and extended it's chilling grip even into the usually sunny south land.
 Centering it's fury in the Biggar and Perdue districts of Saskatche- wan, where in some places it heap ed snowdrifts Is feet high, tho storm was said to be the worst for the season within the memory of oldest residents of central Canada.
 Near Regina, Sask., five men frozc to death when their automobile was stranded all of Thursday night in a snowdrift. Two other men with them suffered severely. In Regina, Dora Goranko, II, wandered away from home .nd was lost in the bliz- gard for 24 hours, but was found uninjured. Mrs. w. l.. Miles, 70, be- came lost at Moose Jaw but also escaped serious injury, although she wandered about through the snow piled streets for many hours.
 At Saskatoon a milk famine was threatened because it was impossible to make deliveries. The city's snow clearing apparatus, usually sufficient at all seasons ~of the year, was in- adequate and traffic of all kinds was almost at a standstill.