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Show WORK OF COAL BARONS. Coal Shortage Responsible for Heavy-Death Heavy-Death Rate in Chicago. Two thousand persons in Chicago are suffering from ailments directly due to cold and exposure resulting from the coal famine, according to the weekJjLUr'Ufitinfthe health depart- ment, issued Saturday. Serious results are already seen in a heavy increase in the death rate, and the health department brands the men responsible for the situation as guilty: of constructive homicide. The death rate last week for children chil-dren under 5 years old was 19.2 per cent greater than in the same week of last year, and among persons over 60-years 60-years of age it was 36.7 per cent greater. |