OCR Text |
Show A WATER FAMINE IN CHICAGO. AD lliisiness on That Account Is Reported ut a standstill. Ciiic.vuo, Jan. 'Jl. This city is suffering villi a water famine. The trouble extends over the cutirs city, Including the suburbs, und is caused by the stoppage of the inlet pipes In the lake by ice.' Private families, factories and business buildings are the greatest sufferers. The elevators are closed don ii. and lircs are banked to prevent tin explosion of boilers. Business ut the stockyards stock-yards and in the great slaughter houses is al a standstill, and there is no water for tin thousands of famishing animals in the jieiie. Strenuous efforts are being made to remedy the trouble, aud it w ill be but tern-porary. tern-porary. The inlets at the water works at Hyde Park and Lake View were cleared this afternoon after-noon and the pumps are now supplying water to those districts. The North Chicago City Railway shops closed and the schools bad to shut up and the brew eries are much straitened bv the scarcity of waier. The switching engines on nearly all of the railroads In the city ure iu danger of having to stop operations for a lack of water. |