Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-01-18 | Page 12 | Suffering Caused by Coal Famine

SUFFERING CAUSED BY COAL FAMINE From tho Detroit Journal The Chicago Health department reports re-ports thai 200000 persons are suffering from ailments directly due to lack of fuel and that there Is I I serious Increase in the death rate The department says the men directly responsible for the sit uallon are constructively guilty ol homicide Mayor Maybury reports thai the poor of Chicago who can buy fuel only by the basketful are being charged at the rate of 50 the ton Is It possible that In the entire city of Chicago of over a million and t half of civilized persons there is not one Christian man of wealth who will buy coal and sell It at cost to the poor