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Show GOAL SITUATiUM GRQWSSERIGUS WHEELS OF PROGRESS SLOWING A8 FUEL SHORTAGE REACHES REACH-ES OVER COUNTRY rranaportatlon it Feeling Shortage, And Lives are Being Sacrificed At Cal Strike Continuei to Paralyze Nation Washington. Slowly paralyzing the nation's Industries, threatening widespread wide-spread shortage of light and heat within a few days, causing Increasing disorders, loss of life and property damage already running into millions, the combined rail and coal strikes have bought on an Induatial cisls, the magnitude of which was revealed in exclusive reports to the United Press Friday from all parts of the country. Not only are wheels slowing oa the country's transportation systems, but public- utilities are closing down and actual suffering because of shortage f coal Is not far off, advices indicate. Disorders are reported from coast ite coasL New England carries announce an-nounce Increasing sabotage on many lines ; Pacific coast roads report kid-napings kid-napings and beatings. Trouble Is feared in western Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, West Virginia and Ohio at mines are reopening. State troops aro cut in New Hampshire, Pensylvanla and Ohio. Serious fuel shortages, due in part to tht coal strike, but to the car shortage short-age caused toy the rail showmen's walkout as well, are reported from all parts of the country. Some steamship lines on the great lakes are down to four days' supply. Cleveland has only three days' ration of coal for its light plant. Iowa farmers farm-ers are hard pressed for fuel to run threshing machines and public utilities. utili-ties. DeB Moines waterworks must close in fifteen days. Denver has been hit, due to curtailment curtail-ment of tourist traffic that ordinarily brings upwards of thirty million dollars dol-lars annually. . Schools at Emporia, Kan., are without with-out fuel, while at Hanllbal, Mo., lighting light-ing has been discontinued. Business, big and lHtle, throughout the country, felt the pinch. In Illinois Il-linois the slump was estimated at 50 per cent. The steel Industry at Youngs-town, Youngs-town, O., was limping down to "scrapings." Rationing, confiscation and emergency emer-gency measures to import coal were announced from many states. Wisconsin Wiscon-sin expects to ration fuel shortly; threatens to confiscate private coal shipments ; industries at Cleveland will start dosing down In five days unless emergency rationing is immediately imme-diately effective. Train sen-ice continued to feel more and more the grip of the strikes. Trains came off on practically all roa&s running into Chicago. Eastern carriers were announcing further suspension, sus-pension, as were Southern roads, wnilit In the extreme West, where the coal shortage had not made Itself felt many rtains have heen taken off, including in-cluding twenty-seven on the Northern Pacific. Strikebreakers have been assaulted in Indlamapolls, Ft. Wayne, Kansas City, 8n Francisco, St. Paul, Con-cord Con-cord N. H., and several deaths directly direct-ly doe to the rail strike occurred. |