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Show SOUTHWEST SHIVERS. Bl People Aro Freezing and Coal Famine Yw Is Imminent. B KANSAS CITY, Feb. 12. The coldest HI weather In years prevails In this section II tonight. At Kansas City It was IS de II grees below zero; at Concordia, Kan.. I 22 below; at Lawton, Okla,, 6 below, and l at Tulsa, I. T 40 below zero. SI In Oklahoma and Indian Territory Iff the weather is the coldest since 1S93, U and there Is much suffering among the M poor, who were caught napping. Cattle fjf also are suffering. f Succumb to Cold. II Great anxiety is felt for the Indian jj tribes, who are In no condition to with- ftl stand the storm, nnd experts say that II dozens of them will die as a result of m the blizzard. A negro froze to death fj at Fredonia. Okla., and a Comanche In- dian succumbed to the cold near Law- 1 ton. I Railroad Tramc Impeded. Railroad traffic is impeded in Kansas I by the high vrlnd. which has piled the Bl snow h the railroad cuts. Most passen- S jj ger trains are using double-headers and M freight trains are carrying only perlsha- IV bio freight. The westbound Santa Fe M through passenger train No. 9 today FIB collided with a freight train which was 811 stuck in a snowdrift near Newton. 1 Kan- One engineer was hurt and both I engines were smashed, but no passen- U cers were Injured. I Coal Famino Threatened. I At Ottawa, Kan., where it Is 11 below, jj! ' a coal famine is threatened. The II drain upon dealers because of weeks of Intensely cold weather has depleted 3 stocks, and tho mines in that vicinity II are unable to fill orders because the m railway Is practically tied up with a ki snow blockade. 1 1: At Tulsa, I. T., where a temperature l of 7 below zero Is reported, work In the 1 1 oil and gas fields has been stopped and ! jj railroad traffic interrupted. 8 C |