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Show COAL SITUATION BROWS SERIOUS 9 WHEELS OF PROGRESS SLOWING AS FUEL 8HORTAGE REACH- ES OVER COUNTRY Transportation Is Feeling Shortage,' And Lives are Delng Sacrificed A Coal Strike Continues 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 nnd property damage already running into millions, tho combined rnll and coal strikes have bought on nn industlnl clsls, tho magnitude of which was rovoalcd in exclusive reports to tho United Press Frldny from all parts of the counlry. Not only are wheels slowing on tho country's transportation systems, but public ut!l!tle3 nro closing down nnd actual stifforlng becnuso of shortage of coal Is not far off, advices indicate. Disorders are reported from const to coast Now England carrfes announce an-nounce increasing Bnbotngo on many lines; Pacific const roads roport kid-naplngo kid-naplngo nnd beatings. Trouble is foarod In wostorn Pennsylvania, Penn-sylvania, Wort Virginia nnd Ohio ns mJnoD are roopenlng. State troops are out in New Hampshire, Ponsylvnnla and Ohio. Serious fuel shortages, due In part to tho coal Btrlke, but to the car shortage short-age caused by the rail showmen's walkout as well, nro reportod from all parts of the country. Soino steamship lines on tho great lakes nro down to four days' supply. Clovoland has only thrco days' ration of coal for Its light plant Iown fanners fann-ers nre hard pressed for fuel to run threshing machines and public utilities. utili-ties. Dcs Moines waterworks must close in fifteen days. Denver hns been hit, duo to curtailment curtail-ment of tourist traffic that ordinarily brings upwards of thirty million dollars dol-lars annually. Schools at Emporia, Kan., nro without with-out fuel, while at Hnnlbnl, Mo., lighting light-ing hns been discontinued. Business, hlg and llttlo, throughout tho country, felt tho pinch. In Illinois Il-linois the slump was estimated at oQ per cent. Tho stool Industry nt Youngs town, O., was . limping down to "scrapings." Rationing, confiscation nnd emergency emer-gency measures to Import conl were uunounced from many states. Wisconsin Wiscon-sin expects to ration fuel shortly; tlireatons to conflscnto private coal shipments ; Industries at Clovoland will start closing down In five days unless emergency rationing Is immediately imme-diately effective Train service continued to feel moro nnd moro tho grip of tho strikes. Trains came off on practically Jill roads running into Chicago. Eastern cnrrlors wero announcing further suspension, sus-pension, hb were Southern roads, wlillc In tho extreme- West, whero tho coal shortago hnd not made ltBclf felt many rtnlna have been taken off, In-eluding In-eluding twenty-seven on tho Northorn Pacific. Strikebreakers have been assaulted Jn Indianapolis, Ft. Wayne, Kiinsnx City, San Francisco, St. Paul, Concord Con-cord N. II., nntl sovoral deaths directly direct-ly due to tho rnll Btrlko occurred. |