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Cause Property Damage, Many Deaths And Injuries dated Press. By The Asso Freezing weather overspread the Middle West today in the wake of furious gales that battered the mid-continent, causing death or in jury to scores of persons and extensive property damage. The mercury sank below zero in the Dakotas, Montana and Wy oming, while sub-freezing temperatures were general from the Rockies to beyond the Mississippi. At least 24 deaths were attributed to the violent wind, rain and snow storms that swept eastward yesterday from the Rocky Mount ains. Property damage was reckoned in the hundreds of thousands. The gale raced across the northern tier of states with gusts attaining a velocity of 80 miles in Wisconsin, 67 in Elmira, N. Y., 65 in Chicago, 63 at St. Louis and City, Ill. A Naval Reserve boat with a crew of seven was said by shore watchers to have run aground on the island while mak ing a rescue attempt during the night $54 in Cleveland. The violent winds uprooted trees, smashed windows, tore cornices from buildings, leveled frame buildings, broke radio tow ers, crumbled huge steel electric signs and ripped away power and communication lines. Tornadic winds struck Louisi ana, Arkansas and Tennessee. Twenty families were left home less when the storm struck Crocker Mills, Tenn., causing damage expected to exceed $150, 000. Snow blanketed much of the western half of the continent, piling into drifts that crippled transportation in Minnesota, Ne braska, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah. Three persons were killed in Wisconsin and fears were ex pressed for the safety of eight duck hunters on a barren, treeless island in the Wisconsin river near Portage. Ten duck hunters were maroon ed on a flooded, windswept island in the Mississippi river at Dallas li “(Continued on Page Four)
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Biddeford Daily Journal
Biddeford, Maine, US
Tue, Nov 12, 1940
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