The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-23
SCORE LOSE LIVES DURING
BITTER BELOW ZERO WAVE.
EIGHT ARE DEAD IN Indiana
Frigid Wave Heads East,
With Little Relief in
Sight for Midwest.
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Two we're killed in a Chicago fire
and firemen answered l72 other
alarms at residences where vigorous
stocking Of furnaces had overheated
pipes and revealed defective fiues.
An all-time record was set at
Lexington, KY, which had Is be-
low Zero Ohio was i,aralyzed at
Is below.
Temperatures in the East sub
sided with only 2 below in New
York. below at Harrisburg, Pa;
zero in Philadelphia and above at
Boston.
Midwest Roads impossible
Drifting snow made roads in the
Middle West impossible and halted
motor traffic. The Illinois and
Indiana highway departments broad
cast warning over all radio sta
tions 10 motorists not to drive over
the highways except in the event Of
extreme emergency.
School buses in several places
were stalled and in northeastern
Ohio 100 children we're rescued by
posses on horseback and in sleighs.
Schools were closed in Chicago,
Minnesota, and in parts of Indiana,
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
The tri-city area about Dubuque,
Ia, reported milk shortage i'm
pending because farmers were I'M
able to get through the impossible
highways.
Air line passengers were among
the most fortunate, pilots arriving
at Chicago reporting that the tenn
peratures we're Is above at high alti-
tudes.
The deaths were distributed as
follows: Indiana, 8; Iowa, l; Min
nesota, A; Wisconsin, 6; Illinois, 6;
Pennsylvania, 3; Kansas, /; Michi-
gan, /, and Nebraska, /.
School Bus Marooned
SnowdriftS Is feet deep we're piled
against bus containing As children
near st. Clairsville, o., 10 miles west
of Wheeling w. Va. The children
were taken across fields in sleighs to
their homes or to nearby farm
houses.
Another bus stranded in Belmont
County, Ohio, was located by farm
ers and the children transferred to
sleighs. A third bus skidded into a
huge drift near Riceville, KY. Pupils
were rescued by motorists.
M0ro than EOn oo~e ,,,o,a
on United States Highway 81 near
Nicholasville, KY, last night. Po-
lice and deputies brought many of
the motorists into Lexington. Scores
of other cars were stalled on the
Harrodsburg and Paris pixies with
the temperature at Is below zero.
Three Burned to Death
An overheated oil stove started a
blaze in third floor fiat on Chi
cago's near West Side early today.
A Negro father and two of his nine
children were burned to death. Six
OF the children jumped itno fire.
mems nets. Another was injured
critically when he jumped from a
Wlll0OW W Vic e,lOullI.
At Paris, Ill, one fireman was
killed and two injured severely
while fighting a blaze in ID below
zero weather in a two-Story brick
business building last night. The
three were on ladder when a wall
collapsed. burying them under the
debris.
Twenty children marooned by
heavy drifts in country school
northwest of Chicago were rescued
by state highway police. The heat
ing plant in the school failed to
function.
Alaskan Temperatures High
The extreme cold struck suddenly
early yesterday in the Northwest
and moved swiftly across the con-
tinent. The area in the frigid zone
included most of the territory from
the eastern part of Montana, south
along the Rocky Mountains to
northern Oklahoma and northeast
through the Middle West to the AL
leghenies.
While mid-America froZe, tenn
peratures in Alaska we're surprising
~ high. Juneau reported 36 above
zero and Calgary, Alberta, had q
reading Of AZ above. The cold wave
did not strike the Far West nor
Denver. where the mercury stood at
40 above today
Chicago firemen raced over icy
streets to SO fires within six and one
half hours in bitter cold weather
yesterday. OvertaXed heating plants
were blamed for most of the blazes.
More than 5000 homeless persons
were taken into Chicago relief shell
tiers during the night. Police sta
tions were crowded with other tram
sientS seeking shelter,
Crops May Be Aided
Chicago hotels, already crowded
with convention visitors, were taxed
to capacity when hundreds of Office
workers decided not to return to
their outlying homes during the
severe cold.
Railroad trains in the Northwest
were hours behind schedule. Trains
leaving Chicago for that territory
we're equipped with extra locomo-
tives. Near Centerville, ILL.,. a
Southern Railway passenger train
crashed into freight on a trestle.
The passenger train engineer, who
said he was blinded by the snow,
suffered broken leg
One cheerful report occasioned by
the bitter cold came from James E.
Bennett, crop forecaster, who said
destruction of insect life may in
crease production of crops this sea-
son.
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