The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-12-28
COLD WAVEIN
US. ON WANE
Moves East Losing Force
After Penetrating The
Deep South
Bv UNITED PRESS

The holiday cold wave which,
accompanied by devastating biz
Zard, took a toll of more than 200
dead throughout the nation, moved
eastward Friday night and was
centered in the Ohio river valley,
its severity abated.
The Middlewest and Northwest,
which bore the brunt of frlgid
Christmas blasts from the Arctic,
yesterday found the temperatures
moderating but fog moving in to
leave traffic still hazardous.
The cold struck with eXtraordl-
nary severity in the Southeast.
Jacksonville, Fla, experienced a
temperature of "a above zero Fri
day and Tampa was below freez-
ing by two degrees. A score Of
deaths were attributed to the cold
in Dixie, with damage to truck
crops severe. Warmer weather
was in sight, but with prospects
of rain, snow or sleet.
DEVILS Lake, N. D., as usual was
the nations coolest spot, but with
an unspectacular reading of four
above Friday at 1 p. m. (CST)
compared with Thursdays ex-
IRENE of % below.
Indiana, eastern Illinois and
Ohio still shivered and it remained
cold along the Atlantic seaboard
with midday temperatures of 26
degrees at New York, 23 at Bos-
ton. 25 at Washington, D. c., and
38 at Savannah, Ga.
Death and property damage con-
tinued in the billiards. aftermath.
The Northwest counted seven
dead, four frozen in North De-
kota during the most severe biz
card in four decades. At Mayville,
KY, 20 coal-filled barges were
torn from a towboat Friday by
grinding ice floes in the Ohio river
and swept over a dam with loss
estimated at $175,000.
At Hopkins, Mimi. Jacob Holly,
81, tumbled into a ditch and froze
to death. August Fenske, 20,
sought to rescue college textbooks
during a fire in his parents home
at McGrath, Mimi, and was burn
ed to death while his five-year-old
sister suffered frozen feet outside.
Cold prevented search of the
ice-flled Ohio river for bodies OF
four persons whose small boat
overturned during Christmas
day snowstorm.
A three day frigid wave pro-
jected into the deep South from
the blizzard-bound North and Mid
dlewest last night gradually re-
Taxed it's icy grip in Dixie.
Forecasters predicted rapid re-
turn of moderate temperatures a:
the mercury in all sections of the
South moved slowly upward from
marks far below freezing.
In the wake of the cold wave
one of the most severe in years
the deep South counted at least
16 deaths directly attributable u
biting cold.
Citrus groves in Florida escaped
with minor damage but the upper
Everglades truck crop section in
land from Palm Beach estimated
losses approximating 100000
| Added to frost damage on Nov
80, Florida's truck crop losses this
fall were brought to nearly S400,
900 by the freezing weather.
Heavy damage to the crop was
expected to be reflected immedi
ately in a strong upward surge II
winter vegetable quotations. More
than 10000 acres of the PENN
sula's richest truck crop area have
been affected by the whitening
cold.
At Atlanta, Weather Bureau
Chief George w. Mindling SAID
the severest stage of the cold wave
apparently was over and warm
rains were moving into southeas
United States from the Texas gull
coast.
While temperatures in the deer
South were materially above thu
sub-zero readings general in thu
Middlewest, suffering among eiti'
zens was intense. .Floridians &C
customed to nearly tropical tenn
peratures shivered in tempara'
lures ranging from "a to slightly
above the freezing mark.
Streams in the South still were
icebound, many for the first time
in quarter century.
A 45-year-old weather record
was equalled at Tampa when Fri.
day completed the 36th day of
sub-normal temperatures, bring
ing the December average six de-
grees below normal. The previous
mark was set in December, 1910