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Show "COLD CAUSES EIGHT DEATHS Accidents and Fire Result Re-sult From Cold. Sailors Perish. i XE WTORK, Jan. 20. (U.P.) Eight deaths, directly or Indirectly attributed to the cold wave, have been reiwrted In the metropolitan area during the past 24 housr. Fires, accidents and exposure were responsible for these fatalities and for the sending of scores of other victims to hoslptals. A merchant was frozen to death while attempting to sleep in his store. Two sailors perished from the cold abroad ships on the water front. The body of another victim wm found In a snowdrift. Fire caused by an overheated stove resulted in the death of a man, his wife and their child. The eighth victim was a woman who fell to her dentil while trying to descend a slippery fire escape. The severe weather that brought death and suffering to New York prevailed generally throughout the east and middle west he cold wave is broken for the present, however, according to the weather man, Jvho predicts higher temperatures tor today. |