The Washington times., 1936-02-15
7S TRAVELLERS
MAR0ONED ON
I TRAINS
Blizzard Tearing Way
East; Food and Fuel
Shortages Acute
international News Service

AUtGEHhtAOuhA Ne"S SOANASO
Scarcely recovered from the re-
lentless fury of the third Arctic
blast within two weeks, the Mid
dle.West and East today was back
In the grip of another polar wave
while the Pacific Coast battled
disastrous floods and torrential
rains.
Seventy-eight passengers were
marooned on two Snowbound
trains in Wisconsin as a new bliz-
Sard ragged into the middle-west
to choke up highways and rail-
roads. Five passengers were re-
moved from a snowbound train in
Pennsylvania after six hours.
Along the Atlantic seaboard and
In New England new cold wave
dashed hopes Of relief from the
Arctic wea ather. Four more
deaths were reported in New York
while harbor and motor traffic
was greatly hampered.
Coal, Food Shortage
Almost everywhere east of the
Rockies new threats of coal and
food shortages loomed while hun
dredS Of towns feared isolation.
The dread specter of floods from
sudden thawS was feared in river
territories.
AS usual the Middle West was
worst hit by the insufferable cold
and swirling SnowStormS. Highway
traffic was virtually at q stand
still in Iowa, Wisconsin, Mime
sofa and parts of Illinois. In the
Black Hills of South Dakota
planes sped with food to ten
towns which have been without
any communication with the out
side world for more than a week.
In Chicago, Weather Forecaster
C. A. DonneIl gave out diScour-
aging report of biting cold winds
sweeping into the Middle West
from Canada's Mckenzie River
basin. In the city the official
reading was three below zero at
z a. m. with more severe cold due
tonight.
SubzerO Temperature
Southern Illinois shivered in
subzero temperatures during the
night with colder weather ex-
pected tomorrow. In Springfield
, it was two below at 1880 a. m. In
st. Louis it was zero at 2 a. m.
with the mercury at six below in
Des Mointes, Iowa, and below at
Adair. Coal SHORTAGES presented
a serious problem as many cities
in the area were rationing fuel by
the pound. b
Iowa was in the grip of its most
severe cold wave in lit years Of
record.
Most of Kansas experienced sub
zero temperature while wheat
crops were threatened in the face
Of continued cold. One death was
reported as icy highways caused
many accidents. At Kansas City
this morning it was six below, and
at wichita it was four below.
50 Below at Fargo
Appeals for food and fuel poured
into st. Paul and Minneapolis
from scores Of Minnesota and
South Dakota cities as a new bit
ter cold wave swept over the
Northwest.
The mercury stood at 1S below
in the Twin Cities at a. m. and
reports showed the temperature at
27 below in Butte, SO below at Bill
lings, 80 below at Alexandria,
MINI and so below at Fargo, N,
D. Still colder weather was on
the way, the Weathtr Bureau
warned.
Worthington, Mimi, by heavy
drifts, cutting off food supplies
and fuel. The milk shortage be-
came so acute that only families
with infants received supplies.
Heron Lake. isolated for a
week, was out of bread and flour,
and at Slayton the food and fuel
supply neared exhaustion. other
towns reported similar fateS.
Montana reported the coldest
weather ever recorded, with Jor-
dan experiencing a minimum Of
so degrees below, Glasgow SIS be-
low. and other points from 20 to
so below.
The cold wave this morning had
reached Michigan and was sweep
ing eastward. In Michigan farm
homes faced food shortages, while
livestock was reported dying from
lack Of food and numbing cold.