Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-09
EXTREME COLD
EXTENDS OVER
ENTIRE NATION
Middle West Storm Moves Into
Eastern Area Adding To Dam
age Of Recent Days.
FORTY ElEPORTED DEAD
Damage To Crops And Live
stock Declared To Be Unusual
ly Heavy In Many Sections.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9. UP)-Ex-
treme cold spread suffering and
death over almost the entire Uni
ted States today as the Arctic wave
which has frozen the midwest and
Rocky Mountain states for several
days swept over the south and the
Atlantic seaboard. At least 40
deaths were attributed directly or
indirectly TO the cold.
Seldom has a cold wave spread
over such 2 great proportion of
the country. From the Western
Rocky mountain region to the At
lantic and from Canada far into
the southland, temperatures rang
ing from 43 below zero to a few
degrees above were reported. Over
the entire territory the already diff
ficult task of caring for the desti-
tute was made far worse. Damage
to crops and livestock was heavy
in some sections.
The snow which accompanied the
cold wave when it first spread
over the middleWest did not reach
the east, but in Utah a new bliz-
zard devoped late yesterday. Many
towns were reported marooned.
Unreasonable warmth along the
eastern seaboard yesterday gave
way to cold during the night, with
temperature drops so degrees in
- hours in New York City and
elsewhere. From a record high OF
of
perature plunged below IA, &C
cording to unofficial readings.
In the midwest and the Rocky
Mountain states, the cold remained
far more severe than in the east.
Snow had stopped over most of the
western territory, except in the in
termountain section, but tempera-
lures in some sections dropped even
lower last night than they had
the night before In the Chicago
area, where Is deaths had been re-
ported, thermometers registered
blow zero. In Kansas City it was
below soon after midnight and
getting colder. Butte, Mont, re-
ported 81 below; Denver Is below;
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and Basin, Mont, 43 below.
In the west the cold was expect
ed to last for at least another day
and in the east for longer.
South Gets 1t
Memphis, Birmingham and
other southern cities, unaccustomed
to low temperatures, reported great
suffering as the mercury dropped
toward zero. Only in semi-tropical
resort areas of the extreme south
was freezing weather escaped. Cot
ton experts believed the cold would
Kill boil weevils and fruit insects,
improving crop prospects.
The southwest Arkansas peach
crop was believed badly damaged.
Thet rees had budded before the
cold set in.
The trees had budded before the
Chicago area, the following fatal
tiles were reported from wrecks
and fires attribute to the extreme
weather:
Canada 7, Missouri 3, Oklahoma
3, Texas 2, Indiana 2, Iowa 2, Cali
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sin and Pennsylvania, each one. In
Omaha, Neb., one fierman was
killed, another was reported miss
ing and was believed dead, and a
third was critically hurt fighting a
fire in the Millard hotel. Guests in
night clothes were carried out into
below zero weather.
Fountain, Colo, reported it had
cnly a weeks water supply left be-
cause streams feeding its reservoir
were frozen. Idaho Springs, Colo, |
was. temporarily without water at
ter a reservoir pipeline froze.
In Aurora, Mo, citizens planned |
to seek a Carnegie medal for Eli
zaheth William, 13, who fought |
through deep snow with the tenn
perature at 10 below to summon |
help for two schoolmates over
come by cold.