Thick Ice Stalls Barges Laden With Fuel Oil-- This is an air view of most of the 28 barges (left), transporting two million gallons of fuel oil and 28,000 tons of coal to Chicago, which were blocked by an Illinois River ice jam. Ottawa skyline is in background. Army engineers estimated yesterday it would be two more days before an ice breaker can smash through the barrier.

Associated Press · [ca. January 1948]

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