The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-21
WORST BLIZZARD m
MANY YEARS Brings
MISERY AND DEATH
Many Towns Still Are Isolated
as Transportation Sys-
tens Are Tied Up
GALES lMPERlL SHIPPING
Mercury Piunges Downward
Over Area Glazed by Coat
ing Of Ice and Snow
by The Associated Press1

by The Associated PreSs)
Cold that knitted to the marrow
staggered the east Wednesday as Il
strove to shake off paralysis caused
by the worst blizzard since 49," At
least Is persons lay dead, struck down
by the storm.
Many towns still were practically
isolated, transportation systems
crawled at a snail's pace in numerous
spots and whistling winds imperiled
shipping. The mercury plunged to-
ward zero, and the cold glazed the
land with ice, hardening snowdrifts
that impeded traffic.
No immediate relief was in sirht.
The frigid wave extended as far
south as Florida.
New England, hardest hit by the
slashing 60-mile gale. still was buried
IN many places under snowdrifts 8 to
II feet deep. There were at least nine
dead there, 10 in New York city, and
SIX IN Pennsylvania.
New York city will spend $1,000 900
to dig out Of the snow that marooned
100000 workers In their homes and
forced the stock exchange to open
III HOu1 late Tuesday.
Highway traffic still is tied up In /,
knot In many places, but most trains
were moving, although regular sched-
ules were largely disregarded. Schools.
courts and businesses were reopeninR
after suspending because Of the
storm.
Sailors Stick to Shin
Through the night 30 sailors stuck
to the collier Northern Sword, which
damned ashore off Winthrop Head,
near Boston. Coast guardsmen with
breeches buoy stood ready to take
them off IL smashing seas started to
break up the vessel.
The storm gave three doomed slay-
ers in Boston a few more hours of
life. The executioner, Robert Elliott,
was snowbound somewhere between
New York and Boston. ana 20 Her
man Snyder, John A. Donnellon and
Harry G. Bull could not be electro
cuted at the appointed hour early
Wednesday.
Here are some high spots q tl,s
storms havoc:
A Boston train due In New York
at 6:35 a. m. Tuesday arrived at 5.45
p. m, the first to get through.
An expectant mother. Mrs. e. D.
Mellier OF Westbury. Long Island.
started for the hospital In q doctors
car. It got stuck. Then q tractor
was hooked onto the car. Mrs. Mel
lier reached the hospital In time to
give birth to twins.
Fifteen trains carrying 5000 Or
1000 persons were Snowbound In
Connecticut and Rhode Island Tues
day.
National Guardsmen delivered
newspapers to snow-imprisoned fami-
lies In Danbury. Conn. School chill
dren Of Augusta, Me-, unable to get
home to the suburbs, spent Tuesday
night in town. It looked like q Har-
vard-Yale day in New Haven, Conn.,.
as stranded travellers clogged the
town.
Four Hurt IN Wrecks
Two minor train wrecks in North
Easton and Revere, Mass, injured
four persons. The fishing vessel
Hope Leslie was towed into Woods
Hole. Mass, leaking after barely es-
Gaping seas that tore away her rud-
der.
In Brooklyn, N. r, John Cook, am
ateur wireless fan, sent word to his
boss through the ether that he couldn't
report for work. The boss said 20. <"
A milk famine threatened on Long
Island, where many communities were
isolated. Farmers on snowshoes
brought food to villages
Fire Island, off Long Islands south
shore, was completely cut off and nc
one knew the condition of its 200 in
habitants. Spencer Smith. fireman
OF Wayne township, N. j., spent two
hours inside a cake Of ice ard sur
vived. Knocked down by q hoss
while firefighting, he was found two
hours later coated thickly with Ice.
And
Up in Ketchikan. ALASKA, straw.
berry plants are budding and the
boys are padding in the old swimming
hole.