TERRIBLE STORMS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 8, 7 December 1926, Page 7

TERRIBLE STORMS

NORTH AMERICA SWEPT. MANY LIVES LOST. SEAMEN IN DANGER OF FAMINE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received December 7, 9.10 a.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 6. The worst early December snowstorm for 40 years extended over the entire east from the Mississippi valley to the Atlantic coast and from Montreal to Delaware.

Twenty-five lives are already reported to have been lost, and the total of the casualties is expected to be even higher. Shipping suffered heavily and 140 freighters, manned by 2000 seamen, are locked in the worst iqe jam in the history of the Great Lakes at St. Mary’s river. Their food is low and there. is a serious danger of famine unless supplies can be rushed there quickly. Freezing weather, the temperature being below zero in many parts of the country, added to the suffering. There were 12 deaths in New York city, six in Boston, in Detroit, and two in Chicago. Forty boats are locked in the ice canal at Albany.—A. and N.Z. cable. EXTREME COLD EXPERIENCED. FLEET FROziN IN RIVER. Received December 7, 10.50 a.m. OTTAWA, Dec. 6. A message from Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, states that on account of the extreme cold a fleet of 121 vessels, carrying grain destined for the Atlantic seaboard, and freighters loaded with coal for Western Canada and the United States, are frozen in St. Mary’s river. Fifteen million bushels of grain and many hundred thousand tons of coal, together with ships valued at nearly a billion dollars, will, unless relief comeg quickly, be unable to move before the spring.—A. and N.Z. cable.

St. Mary’s River is the strait between Lakes Huron and Superior.