The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-26
MANY SECTIONS OF
COUNTRY TROUBLED
BY WINTER BLASTS
New Blizzard Lashes Eastern
Coast; Buries Cities Un-
der Second Snowfall
T0RNADoEs STRIKE SOUTH
Mortality Toll Put at 81, n.
Guiding Eight Killed When
Airplane Falls
by the Associated Press)

fated passenger air liner, had num-
bered 81 victims Monday.
In the deep south authorities rushed
1ooc, clothing and medical aid to
communities In three states where
tornadoes ripped and tore Sunday.
Thirteen were known to be dead In
Alabama, eight in Mississippi and two
in Georgia. Many were injured a.
the storms wrecked homes.
A two-day search for missing air
liner ended Sunday night when its
five passengers and q crew OF three
We're found dead near q snow bound
canyon not far from Salt Lake City.
The giant craft smashed to earth In
a binding blizzard Friday.
Swirling snow enveloped q larse
part OF the nation, from New England
westward to Nebraska and southwark
to Richmond. Va. and beyond. This
storm caused six deaths. including 4
woman found dead from exposure in
Chicago and an engineer who died In
q train wrecked by q snow bank near
Mapleton, Me.
Army mail planes were generally
held on the ground.
The east struggled frantically to
prevent the snowstorm from tying
1t in knot for the second time in .
week.
Gale Drives Fine Snow
Snow as fine g salt, driven BY q
northeast gale, swirled for hours
Communities that had barely rot
moving after digging out Of last
weeks big storm faltered under the
new blow from the sky.
Arplane service was the first TO
60. Railroad trains were running
late. Road transportation was Sc
verely hampered. Plummeting temp
eratures added to the woes Of many
sections. Northeast gales slashed at
the coast. especially New England.
imperilling shipping.
A force OF $500 men laboced
throughout the night In an attemp.
t. clear New York city's streets.
Fire Island, of Long Islands south
shore, was still cut off from tho
mainland. It's 200 inhabitants have
existed as best they could for 10 days
OF isolation. Liners incoming from
Europe arrived hours late at New York
after fighting slashing storms.
Two women froze to death In the
east, one In Philadelphia and the Sc
ond near Barnegat. N. J. An engi.
neer persisted near Mapleton. Me-.
when train smashed against . snow
bank. In New York q veteran fire
man died Of heart attack induced
BY cold.
In Washington, snowfall several
riches deep did not prevent Mrs.
Roosevelt from taking IN automobile
drive Sunday.
The snowstorm invaded the south,
too, with Richmond, Va. reporting
the winters heaviest fall. Sixteen
inches, q seasons record, was reported
IN some parts Of West Virginia.
Death Came Quickly
The wrecking Of the giant United
Airline transport last Friday was 30
swift and sudden, line officials said
Monday at Salt Lake City, that the
eight persons who died never knew
what happened.
The plane fell vertically, like
great ball Of steel, and struck the
ground with such force that the en-
CINE was imbedded in the ground up
to the cabin.
"All the bodies were pushed for
ward" said Leon Cuddeback. asst.
ant to Chief Pilot H. T. Lewis OF
United Airlines. THE ship did not
move after 1t struck the ground.
There was no evidence Of fire. Death
must have been instantaneous to all"
The dead:
Miss Mary Carter. stewardess, for
merly Of Omaha and Chattanooga,
Tenn.
Lloyd Anderson, Cheyenne, pilot.
Eric q. Danielson, Cheyenne, CO.
pilot.
J. J. Sterling. mayor Of Benton
Harbor, Mich.
Macellus zinsmaster, Des Motnes,
Iowa.
Eva w. Berglund, Boone, Iowa.
Bert Mclaughlin, Perry, Iowa.
E. L. Walker. Rock Springs. Wyo.
Missing Since Friday
Missing since last Friday, shortly
after it had taken of from Salt Lake
for Cheyenne with five passengers
and crew Of three, the trarspcrt
was found wrecked In . snow-coveree
pass. The wreckage was sighted j
dusk Sunday by . searching plane.
A rescue party Of company officic
which reached the scene throls
deep snow two hours later found the
mar led bodies Of the two pilots and
the five passengers thrust into the
forward end Of the plane and H..
prisoned by wreckage.
Only the body Of the stewardesk
Miss Carter, was intact. It lay on
top Of those Of the others. Identifi-
cation was possible only BY jewelry
and clothing.
Except for the wings, which veeS
cracked, virtually every part Of IT,
craft was smashed. The tail huns
drunkenly like : boys broken lite.
Several hours were required 70 q.
tricate the bodies from the Wreckaeo.
They were carried two niles 70 tn
Lincoln highway, where ambulanoos
brought them TO Salt Lake City. tn
nose Of the plane had 10 b dur fscm
the ground beforo ha9Eaoe and -
press could b rosnovod ftosa IT, -
ward compastmenk