The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-27
MOTORISTS DROWN
AND INDIANS ARE
TRAPPED IN Hills
Bismarck Is BIanketed Under
Three and One Halt
Inches of Snow
PREDICT WARMER WEATHER
More Precipitation But Higher
Temperatures Forecast
For Saturday
PREDICT WARMER WEATHER

and ne-half inches OF snow FRIDAY
morning following white" Thanks
giving, looked forward to continued
snowfall Friday night and Saturday.
Press wires carried reports of IA dead
from storms in the south and west.
It will be warmer throughout the
state Friday night, however, accord
ing to the forecast of the U. s.
weather bureau here.
Precipitation here during the last
48 hours totaled II of an inch. A
snowfall which began Wednesoay
night continued through Tnursoay.
The mercury registered IA degrees
above zero at a. m. Friday morn
ing. the maximum Thursday being ~
degrees.
Main highways blocked by snow
earlier this week were open Friday
according to reports received py the
state highway department.
Travel on U. S. No. 10, which was
blocked from Steele to Fargo, has
been resumed with the road In fairly
good condition.
Because of the light texture Of the
snow already fallen, highway officials
believed roads would be blocked again
should a strong wind arise.
Cold at Williston
1Williston was the only point in the
state reporting sub-5ero tempera-
ture Friday. It was two degrees be-
low at the williams county city, 20
above at Fargo, and eight above at
Devils Lake.
A fresh Thanksgiving covering OF
newly-fallen snow blanketed Grand
Forks Thursday night, q 1.4-inch fall
being recorded by the University OF
North Dakota weather bureau. The
mercury hit zero for a low mark dur
ing the "a hours previous to z p. m.
It was still showing at that time and
a six-mile northeast wind was blow
ing.
The maximum temperature for the
day was 20 above.
Traffic in Napoleon, Logan county,
Friday morning was hampered by
huge snow drifts, some Of which were
four and five feet deep, according to
the Bismarck office Of the 500 Line
Railway company.
13 Inches at Napoleon
Snowfall ranging from one inch at
Underwood to 13 inches at Napoleon
was reported along the Soo's branch
line running north and south from
Bismarck.
The 500 Line snowfall report was
as follows: Hankinson to Fredonia.
two to five inches; Lehr, seven inches;
Wishek, IL inches; Burnstad, seven
inches; Napoleon, l3 inches; Kintyre
to Moffit, five to seven inches; Dan
zig to Ventura. five to six inches; /;
Herried. s. D., to Pollock. s. D., 10
inches; Bismarck to Washburn, three
to four inches; Underwood, one inch;
Garrison to Drake and Max to San
ish, one fourth to one-half an inch.
Weather conditions throughout the
nation were unsettled following
Thanksgiving Day storms that added
deaths and property damage to the
toll of early winter in the west.
A light snow fell in central Ohio
Thursday night. Snow or rain were
In prospect for much of the region
east of the Mississippi river. While
zone of cold stretched from Wash
ington and Oregon toward the Great
Lakes Region, moderating influences
were noted generally throughout the
plains states.
Five Motorists Drown
A party of five motorists drowned in
a rain swollen creek near Tyler, Tex.
Thursday. At least nine Navajo In
dian pinon nut hunters have frozen
to death on the blizzard-swept Mesas
Of New Mexico. A sheepherder per-
ished near Glenrock, Wyo. Nine hun
dred sheep drowned In q reservoir
near Malta, Mont. They wandered
onto thin ice in a blizzard.
A cold spell in Southern California
was definitely broken. Fear Of frost
in the citrus belt has passed. Snow
was forecast in the mountains Of Cal.
ifornia, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana
and Utah. The middlewest prepared
for showers and rising temperatures
Fear for the safety Of two missing
Columbia Falls, Mont. school boys
Robert Gordon and Billie Haines
missing since Tuesday, was dispellet
when searchers found them safe II
Shelby.
Passengers on two Southern Pacifi,
trains delayed several hours Thursday
in the Sierra by storm, passed thu
}. time frolicking In the snow.
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