Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-17
Fear 10 on Ice Lost;
Blizzard Kills SO
Detroit Woman
Freezes to Death

One death in Detroit today was
added TO the toll of a paralyzing
cold wave borne on winds of gale
force sweeping through Michigan
and the northern border states
and taking at least so lives.
More than 40 deaths were re-
ported in North Dakota and north
western Minnesota, which bore
the brunt of the wintry blasts,
with temperatures which ranged
TO II degrees below zero.
The thermometer here fell "a
degrees in IA hours from high
of AZ degrees at ? a. m yesterday
TO a low of eirht at 5 a. m. today.
S ABOVE DUE HERE
Lower temperatures were fore
cast for tonight. with a low OF
about > above predicted.
The Detroit death was that OF
Mrs. Elmira Chunn, 40, OF l4O4
Monroe street. Her frozen body
was found in the. alley in the rear
of neighbours home at Z a. m.
today.
One man was reported missing
on Lake St. Clair. He was seen
drifting after the ice foe on which
he had been fishing broke of from
the shore ice. tSee story on
page a.
The wind did little damage here.
but in Saginaw and Flint windows
were broken. power lines were
down. and porches and barns were
destroyed.
The temperature in northern
Illinois lowered around zero, the
sectors coolest st. Patrick's Day
in 40 years.
THOUSANDS NARROWED
The wind-borne cold swept down
upon North Dakota and Minnesota
with little advance notice Satur-
day night. So suddenly did the
storm strike that thousands were
marooned in theaters. sports CEN
tiers and other gathering places
where they were forced to remain
all night.
Motorists were the chief suffer-
ers. Entire families were frozen to
death in their automobiles. Others,
who left their cars in search of
safety, were felled before they
were able to reach help.
A family Of three, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Norberg and their son. Ralph.
of Bottineau, n. D., was found
frozen TO death in a stalled auto
mobile not far from their home.
TWO FREEZE ON TRACKS
Katherine, 81, and Florence
Howry. IS. sisters. apparently were
frozen to death on railroad tracks
which they had been following to
find their home at Pembina. N. d.
A train ran over them before their
bodies were noticed.
Three brothers lost their lives
when caught in the storm. They
were Lee. II: Don. Is. and Rich
dIu idNlOl. ~ vi DulSy. ~. ~ ~
fourth brother Robert. was saved
and taken TO a hospital suffering
from exposure.
Mrs. Peter Bjerken, as, and her
son. Palmer. 8, of Mahnomen.
Mimi. were caught in their auto
mobile. left the machine to seek a
haven and succumbed to the cold.
MOTHER, SON LOST
An exhausted man staggered
into the sheriffs office at Crooks
ton. MINI. identified himself as
Palmer Peterson. and said he had
left his wife and son in his auto
mobile on the highway a few miles
away. Searchers were unable to
find them and feared them lost.
At the height Of the storm. winds
reached a velocity of IS miles an
hour and dropped to 40 miles OF
less yesterday. AS it veered east.
ward today. the storm apparently
was blowing itself out. 1t first
struck Manitoba, Can, early Sat.
urday. accompanied by heavy
snow.
Three persons died of cold al
Winkler. Man., when the tempera-
ture fell from II degrees above &c
10 hol0xy zpro in five hours