Show THE COAL SITUATION with the temperature hovering a round the zero marli mark bins empty or getting perilously near it and no coal coming into the city the situation is desperate in brigham city right now one family the father is away at work was compelled to leave homo home Yes yesterday erday and visit with kind neighbors in order to keep from freezing this too despite tile the fact that the family had paid in advance for a ton of coal that should have been delivered several days ago but the local dealers are powerless to relieve the situa tion practically all of them have ad vices to the effect that cars of coal were shipped from the mines weeks ago and yet they have not arrived the situation has become so eo desperate la in some cases that stealing has been resorted to not a few people have reported to the officers the complete purI purloining DIning of their coal supply and no trace of those guilty hes has been found today sowe of the dealers dealema are unloading a car or two and patrons are carrying oft off the preci crus fuel in sacks and little dabs that will k keep beep them warm for a day or two when they will have to get some more or freeze I 1 mayor mayar erdmann got into communication with someone in salt lake city yesterday and received two cars of coal which arrived today and is being distributed in small lots it Is questionable whether this community lias has ever experienced such a coal famine the belief is capr expressed ased by many that there Is s a in the woodpile somewhere and some body or corporation Is responsible for tile situation generally the blame Is placed upon the railroads and yet the officials of those companies claim that they are simply up against an impossibility to motive rower power and rolling stock sufficient clent to transport coal and the other tremendous freight shipments which are waiting to be dovd tho the outstanding fact remains that a coal famine Is on and if this cold weather continues and the coal supply does not increase real suffering coffering will result |