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Show COLDEST NIGHT OT THE . , . . WINTEB; BUSINESS IS . PABALY2ED AT PETBOIT. DETROIT, Jan. ,12. Following on the heels of the most severe snowstorm of the season yesterday came the coldest night of the winter In this city. At 7:30 this morning the thermometer registered regis-tered 5 below sero. The sero temperature tempera-ture was general all over the lower pen; Insula below Alpena. ' The car ferries had considerable trouble, trou-ble, plowing throughvthe ice with their trains. Both the ferries Lansdowne and Great Western spent the night In the river, bucking the Ice with passenger trains aboard. The Canadian Pacific train from Toronto, due here at 2:15 a. m., spent the night on the car ferry fast in the river and did not arrive here until un-til 8:30 this morning. Hundreds of people peo-ple who live across the line and are employed em-ployed on this side did not get to their work until nearly noon as the ferries were blockaded by the Ice. . |