The bitter cold wave which has gripped the Western portion of the United States moved eastward toward the Atlantic seaboard to-day, bringing forecasts of slavly-rising, temperatures to the middle west.
The coldest point in the United States this morning was Duluth, Minn, with a temperature of 24 degrees" below zero, Saskatchewan, Canada, reports included temperatures of 40 degrees below zero, It was indicated to-day that rising temperatures will be accompanied by veneral snows from Nebraska to Indiana One person was dead of exposure as a result of the cold wave. One freight yesso! was wrecked on Lake Michigan, but its crew of 25 persons was rescued. Ice was paralyzing fresh-water shipping in some sections and threatening 10 do so in others. Automobile and aeroplane raffle was impeded in many sections of the cold belt.
Nine vessels were ice-bound in the Soulanges Canal at Montreal, and at Jeast eight others on Lake Superior were believed to be racing to avoid a similar fate—United Press.
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