The Archive · 1938

Michigan Digs Out

Detroit, Jan. 26.

Blustering winds and snow storms swept over the mid-west, southern and eastern states of America to-day as Michigan began digging out of the worst, blizzard in her history, Known dead from the driving blizzard and sub-zero weather which swept over the eastern half of the United States yesterday and to-day were four In Minois, three in Indiana, two in Michigan and one in South Dakota. Several others were missing.

The 48-hour blizzard left Michigan in the wake, of ten, twenty and thirty-foot' snow drifts which paralized communications and left hundreds of persons stranded on highway and farm homes. Relief parties were attempting to reach isolated farm homes with food and fuer to-day while "highway workers sought to reopen snow-filled highways,

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