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Show fm TO DEATH, I ' People in the Dakotas I and Further East Per-' I - ishing in Cold ' St, Paul, Jan. 13. A number of ' Vk deaths resulting from the cold weath- . . W or were reported today, .three at Far- l ' go, N. D., and one at Valley City, N. I g , The thermometer here registered 20 ? IY i below last nighL 1 fc Railway traffic is blocked worse M than at any previous time this win- jH ter- , t Suffering in New York. G New York, Jan. 13. This was tho ' 1 i- coldest day New York has expori- ! L enced in eight years. From flvo de- I I l grees above zero at midnight, the 1 I f mercury dropped steadily until at "t ; 0:30 a. m. It was 3 below. At 8 It o'clock the temperature had risen to i j 1 below. j1 Many persons, suffering from ex- ' ' j ji ,posure, havo been taken to the hos- ! j pltals. Ejj In the Adirondacks the temperature 31 ranged from 15 to 4G degrees below zero and at points along tho Hudson. Jjlr river tho mercury was down is Iowas znH' 31 below. - ' . jf i , 1 'fr I Cold and Growing Colder. V I Boston, Jan. 13. The official tern- ' j j peratine here at tho lowest touched I ' ' several degrees below zero and rl ' weather authorities declared today ' '. j that the crest of the cold wave was still to come. Northfield. Vt, held ' il the lowest mark in New England to- It day, with 32 degrees below. i Man Frozen to Death. t- I 1 I Philadelphia, Jan. 13. Zero woath- j IJ 1 j er was experienced in Philadelphia lli ; , l today for the first tlmo in eight yearsi j B j Tho mercury went to 12 and 15 de- H i grees below zero in the mountains of 1 U Pennsylvania. At Pottsvillo a man ' j was found frozen to death in front s ' of his home. 'I- -fj Water for St. Louis. . f I St Louis, Jan. 13. Thirteen de- (Tl fl grees below zero was the lowest tern- j jj peraturo recorded in St. Louis today. It IP Sixteen degrees lelow had been pre- f , 7 dieted. Soon after the minimum read- r ' III Ing theveathor began moderating and -t Jlfl six hours later, 9 o'clock, tho gov;- n rW ernment, thermometer registered 4 - r B ln degrees below. Fair and warmer 1 I E weather is predicted with, a temper- " 1 ' ature tonight of about ten degrees 1 1 d above zero. , " t M Clarified water is now being pump- ' fk cd into the city mains, and officials I -PflB of tho water department bolieve tho . ' Tifi citv's water problem is solved. J 5Jr Several days ago floating ico at tho yji intake curtailed the supply and livf threatened a famine. jTit Old Man Perishes. Fj 1 i ' Kansas City, Jan. 13 Huddled close M to the dead embers of a fire, made - I from tho last -scrap of furniture in if the house, the frozen body of Charles E ' Hart, a negro veteran of the Civil R war, was found in a cabin on the out- h skirts of tho city today. Hart was" -I , 75 years old j Young Couples Ask for Aid. B - Chicago, Jan. 13. Ono of the odd , M, features in tho applications for aid. during tho ten days of zero weather hero Is the number of newly married-,' couples who hao appealed to tho charity of the county for sustonance. I In one day there were received 2S t applications from such couples -for f aid The oldest applicant of theeo J ', wns 22 years old. 1 Cattleman Loses His Life. j V Kansas. City. Jan. 13. Although a 1 1 rise of from ton to twenty degrees In I tempera tin e today greatly allevlatsd, H suffering here and in the southwest, ; jk normal conditions probably will not a I prevail inside of a week. Several de- 1 Breos below zero was recorded hero .3 1 Many details of privations suffered. S bv western Kansas ranchers came to i light todav. Frozen to death in his i I saddle, his horse dead under him H and scores of dead cattle about him, . fl the body of T. C. Bidwell. a ranch- ; man. was found half buried in tho p snow near Scott City, Kun., today. , .N Bldwoll lost his life attempting to drivo his herds to shelter. |