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Show COAL SHORTAGE IN NORTHWEST. Residents of Five States Face Peril of Freezing to Death This Winter. Washington. Wisconsin. Minnesota, the Dakotas and northern Iowa are in danger of freezing to deatli this winter win-ter if some relief is not had by which the government shall compel the coal operators and the shipping companies to supply these states with sufficient coal for the winter. If the states named are to be made secure against freezing, it will be necessary nec-essary from now until the first of September Sep-tember to have coal shipped Into them at a rate of ;i,370,OOO tons a month. |