Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09
New Quakes in Balkans
After Deaths Reach 200.
Japanese Isle Is Shaken.
U. S. Storm Toll Heavy.
HUNT BODIES AFTER BOAT
WRECK IN NEW ENGLAND
Accidents Kill % Around New
York-Central States List 16
Dsad-Gales Rage Over Atlantic.
Tendon Snow Sets 2o-Year Rec
ord as Cold Grips Continent.

By the Associated Press.
New quakes ratified the Balkans
today and panieked an isle OF
Japan; bitter cold gripped Europe;
French rivers swelled higher and
higher; snow covered much Of the
Western Hemisphere; gales con-
tinued pellnnell over the Atlantic,
heckled the North Atlantic sea-
board and pitched high the waters
Of the Great Lakes.
Death, destruction and injury
were being slowly counted in the
third day of worldwide turbu-
lence.
From. Port Louis, MauriSius,
came hrst news that a hurricane
of last week left II dead.
At least 400 had been counted
dead in the Balkans before fresh
shocks this morning sent terror
stricken natives seeking doubtful
shelter for the third time in as
many days.
GeyseFs Increase Terrors.
Hot water geysers from great earth
cracks in the foothills Of the Valandoya
region increased the terror there.
The Japanese quake struck ct Hako-
date, destroyed buildings. LEFT no deaths.
London was experiencing the worst
snowstorm OF 20 years and the worst
cold Of is years. Scotland lay under
the deepest snow OF the year and the
cold bit into Northern France, Ger
many, Belgium, Scandinavia, Austria
and Poland. Giant waves battered the
sea coasts and several steamers were
aground.
rivers Of Burgundy and Southern
anSe were trs sTe csyCnS anxsty
The Seine at Paris was foot above
alarm level. Low sections were eyacu-
ated.
Gales on the American side OF the
Atlantic washed IN their own report
of tragedy--the wreckage OF a boat at
Newburyport, Mass. Search was being
made for bodies
70 Killed Around New York.
Twenty.three were counted dead IN
accidents attributable to the storm
around New York yesterday. The
Middle West and New England were
digging out Of drifts that blocked their
roads. Sixteen were left dead in the
two-day blizzard of the Central States.
Northern New York State was under
S15inches of snow. New Jersey was
taxing stock of the damage left in the
wake Of 54-mile gale that swept over
its seaboard.
The Province of Quebec Canada, was
smuggling as best it could against the
stiffest March winds and worst snow
storm of so years.
United States weather officials indi-
Gated fresh fury Of the elements with
a warning TO ships to hug shelter from
sandy Hook, N. j., 70 Eastport, Me. :.
Scientists in the Balkans expected
more earth shocks because OF setting OF
the globes crust there,
rs on Train Mzrooned.
In Pennsylvania SIX State highways
were closed to trafic because OF snow
drifts in Susquehanr1a and Wayne
Counties. Snow was still falling today
in the north central counties.
Twenty-Five passengers were ma
rooned in New York Central passenger
train, stuck for FIVE hours in a snow
bank at Rosiere, N. Y. last night.
Western Massachusetts, Vermont and
New Hampshire were buried in one OF
the deepest SHOWS Of the year.
SnowdriftS from to 20 feet deep
blocked highways in North Adams, Mass.
Fifteen automobiles were stalled along
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