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Ludington Daily News 
Thursday, November 14, 1940
page 1

                    ICY BLASTS SWEEP PARTS OF NATION
               Relief for Plains State is Forecast for
                          Tonight or Friday
                          
                      (By the Associated Press) 
                      
                 Icy blasts again swept the northern sections
               of the nation today with temperatures ranging
               from freezing to below zero, but relief was in
               sight.
                 The weather bureau forecast rising temperatures
               in the plains states by tonight or tomorrow.
                 Meanwhile, the number of known dead in the
               storm ravaged areas reached 108, not including
               51 missing sailors.
                 Eighteen sailors were known to have perished
               in Lake Michigan during the week's storms. Hopes
               of finding the missing crewmen alive were virtually
               abandoned.
                 Crews of boats that rode out the gale termed
               the storm the worst of their experience. The oil
               tanker NEW HAVEN SOCONY reached East Chicago, Ind.,
               Wednesday covered with ice and extensively damaged.
                 "We've been through hell," said Boatswain Frank
               Myers. "And we've been practically all over Lake
               Michigan."
                 One lifeboat, a raft and the pilot house were
               swept away by the wind and waves. The ship reached
               port with her compass dead, navigation charts 
               washed away and the radio out of order, but with
               all hands safe.
                 Capt. Robert W. Parsons of the lake freighter
               THOMAS F. COLE brought his ship into Milwaukee
               Wednesday after being swept "almost from one end
               of Lake Michigan to the other." Parsons, a veteran
               of 30 years on the Great Lakes, said the storm
               surpassed any in his memory.
                 Lake Erie fishermen feared that this season
               would be their poorest in 16 years because of
               extensive storm damage to nets.
                 Minnesota's transportation and communication
               facilities, disrupted by a blizzard, were 
               rapidly returning to normal. The state counted
               40 storm victims, 16 of them duck hunters.
                 Williston, N.D., with a reading of 17 below
               zero, was the coldest spot on the weather map
               Wednesday. Bismark, N.D., had minus 16 and
               various communities in Wyoming, Montana, South
               Dakota and Iowa reported below zero temperatures.
               
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