Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-13 | Page 2 | Bitterly Cold in Eastern States

BITTERLY GOLD li EASTERN STATES Three Deaths in New York City and Great Suffering Among the Poor. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Tho cold snap which descended upon this city yesterday and sent tho mercury below the zero mark today had caused three deaths hero up lo a late hour tonight. No Immediate prospect of relief was held out. The local weather bureau predicted a probable prob-able drop of live degrees below zero by morning. A biting wind added to the discomfort of those out of doors, and the police and hospital forces were kepi busy giving aid to those who had been overcome. over-come. With the coming or. the cold spell the unemployment problem of the city has again becoms pressing. Last night 1771 homeless persons, among ihem lifty women wom-en and children, were cared for In the municipal lodging houses. Tonight the various municipal shelters were crowded to capacity and many had lo bo turned away. Orders were Issued by General Ballington Booth, head of tho Volunteers of America, I hat thu halls of the organization organ-ization should be kept open and that coffee and bread should be given all persons per-sons needing them. Zero went hor had no terrors for thirty-six thirty-six atholctes who today started on tho annual Brooklyn-Seagate marathon with legs bare and torsos anything- but fully covered. It was a shivering crowd that watched the runners tart on their twenty-six-mile journey. Three of tho runners run-ners were taken to a hospital suffering from cold and exhaustion. Only eleven llnlshed.