Chicago, Jan. 25. SUB-ZERO blizzard howled out of the North-west across upper Michigan to-day, paralyzing communications and spreading a sheet of ice and snow across almost half the United States.
Latest reports to hand told of at least five persons dead &nd several missing in the storms.
Winds which sometimes roared across snow-covered fields at 50 miles per hour, filled highways and railways with 20-foot drifts on the Michigan peninsula.
Hundreds of families were isolated on out-lying farms and it was feared their supplies of food and fuel Vivid Skies in
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