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Show COAL FAMINE1 FOLLOW GOLD 'WAVE-IN CENTRAL STATES; SUFFERING REPORTED ! CHICAGO, Jan. 12. Two degrees below be-low zero was the official, temperature for Chicago and vicinity at 8 o'clock today, accompanied' by a brisk northwest north-west wind. Much suffering among the poor, who have with dlfflculty endured the moderate weather- since the co&l famine became acute, has been reported, re-ported, and a number of deaths are said to have been due directly to the cold. Steps have already been taken by the Mayor to provide a fund for the relief of suffering among the destitute. The temperature, which was 6 delow at midnight, began soon to' moderate until at 8- o'clock this morning 2 below sero was registered. ' , - Much delay to suburban and street transportation lines was occasioned by the sudden drop of seventeen degrees and a number of minor accidents owing ow-ing to the heavy fall of snow were repotted; re-potted; CLEVELAND SHXVZBS . AT 4 BELOW; COAL IS ' REPOBTED VEST SCA&CZ. CLEVELAND, Jan. 12. The lowest j temperature of the winter, 4 below sero, ' was recorded here early today. At oth- ! er points in northern Ohio the temper-ature temper-ature fell to 8 below. During the night . the wind reached a velocity of forty-four forty-four miles an hour from the west and combined with the extremely low temperature tem-perature and scarcity of fuel In many Quarters, caused much suffering. , Practically all trains on the trunk, line roads were running behind schedule time today, most of them being reported from one to two hours late. ' From 1 to 18 Below. , , . ST. PAUL, Jan. 11 One degree below waa the warmest reported here Sunday and last night it went down to 7 below. Moorhead reports a minimum of. IS below be-low and.Puluthj8ilowFuel iascaree, and although, there-is not yet an actual famine there to not much sufferings Frigid 'at St. Louis. ' v ' ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12. An intensely frigid temperature prevails here. At 5 o'clock-tills morning the temperature registered 8 . degrees, above but by- 8:30 (Continued on Page 5.) . i i -. . - il., 1. X.. - 5 c 1 3j t-: 1 t:.r; .;:...t I. - r thl; ty he urs, the t.:r;-r-t-;j ra .' ; f.-oi rero to 6 below, eccomrnr.'.i ty ccr 3 v It vas 3 t f-ro here th i r : r rr ' -7. J.;ri cil c-r ot te otta!.-.' I era tr.e fit ctl 1 -r 13 taustei la many places, rk..I...:j 14 mu: eucrlrj. I7 Tuel Tanine. ci::ci?;::ati. o.. Jan. ix ovo- tenths of a degree above ter wii the mlnln-um recorded ty the weatvr tu reau this tncrnlnj. Two dfrre 1 t was thown ty many taerrcouet. rs. ihH was a fall cf 32 decrees la e ht.ea hours. Fortunately Cincinnati h to coal famine. . . . ' El3- Zero la reorl. PEOniA, III. Jan. 13. After a tevere. ly cold day and nl?ni several thermometers thermom-eters In the suburbs and on the t!u'.s registered from 4 to S degrees below ero at 7 o'clock this momlnj. I71ne Xel?w la Kebrtuia. - OMA'IA. Neb, Jan. H. At 7 o'clock this morningr I degree below was registered reg-istered at the local weather bureau, with indications for little relief from the cold snap before tomorrow. The extreme ex-treme cold so vers Nebraska, western Iowa and 8outh Dakota, At Valentine, Neb,, the mercury went to a degrees below be-low t ero. . - " Crest of the Cold "Ware. ' I COLUMBUa. O.. Jan. 12. The blizzard bliz-zard of Sunday was followed by Intense cold, the temperature here being" S flejr. below. The- crest of the cold wave will arrive tonight, when 5 or. f below will be reached, ... . , . , ..' Coldest Daj in Kantucky, . .: LOUISVILLE. Ky Jan. . LL The temperature at 7 a. m. was t deg-. abort, the coldest of the winter. : . lloderatlntr la "V71scoiislo, ' , WEST SUPERIOR, Wla., Jan. UIt was 8 deg; below rero this morning". relief from yesterday, when the mercury mer-cury went to 14 deg-. below with the wind at thirty-five miles an hour. There has at yet been no suffering- from fuel snortare. ; ; - ;. - |