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Show WEATHER IR EASTERN STATES BITTEB COED People Suffer Intensely, and a Number of Deaths From Exposure Ex-posure Are Reported. NEW YORK. Feb. t',. Inlense cold, driven to the bono of man and beast by a cutting wind, gripped the east tonight. In New York City, tempered as it is by surrounding water, the mercury stood' at one degree above zero at midnight, equalling the low record for the season. A forty-mile gale swept New York and vlomlty throughout the day and night, driving pedestrians indoors nnd causing great suffering to those who arc exposed. Streets were practically deserted tonight. An unidentified man was frozen to death In Boston; a fisherman met a similar simi-lar fate in Buffalo, while off Atlantic City a tramp steamer was forctd to anchor because of the gale. I'p-stalo in New York a driving snow mado conditions worse. The average temperature todnv, in New York City was eleven degrees above zero. The extreme cold drove hundreds of homeless men and wohien to tho municipal mu-nicipal lodging houses for shelter tonight. Three hundred and seventy-two men had been housed by midnight, while twenty women and six children were taken In. Park Row and (he Bowery were swept of their nocturnal population bv the coldest wind of the season. The cold air. modoratinir as It extends south, reached as far as Fiorlda. where frost was experienced. |