Show TRAIN TAMES TAKES fiRE MR VULE TUE TE P PES UNDER CARS ARE BEING TAD OUT I I Rivers in the East Are frozen Over Overt and the Sources of Coal Supply Are Cut Off Cold Wave ave Over the South I Columbus Ohio Dec eveland Akron Columbus train from arrived six Ix hours late having been frozen up on the flue way The became frozen shortly aft after r it pulled out of Cleveland Cleeland flu effort to thaw out the UIO pipes beneath the thc Pullman car the ear car caught fire and it was unnoticed for a time the tho breeze fanning the flames The car was full of smoke In a short hort time lImo and the passengers were Tho train was stopped and the passengers were In their nIght clothes to another car The crew erow finally suc succeeded succeeded In putting out the tho Jiro firo i I Pa Dee Dec coming comins or of zero weather In and nud west wesl I era ern points has temporarily postponed here and at West Vest VirgInia and Ohio places bordering the Ohio river a 3 do flood For A score of years cars conditions have hao not been so favorable for Cor a rampage of the tho waters notwithstanding standing that wIthIn the last few years man ninny lives have been beon lost and ml lions of doll dollars rs worth o of property tic de destroyed by hIgh water I The Ohio river is practIcally frozen from this city to CIncinnatI Tribu Tributaries are aro In n a similar state Above hero here the Allegheny Monongahela I and other rivers to together gel gether her with countless tributaries are frozen while the ChrIstmas blizZard I from ten to fifteen Inches o of snow oel the tho river territory The Tho ThoI I entire sItuation now bingos for goon or bad on the veath veather or er anti and rain would mean a disaster warm weather alone a serious flood while should conditions moderate gradually little damage will result i The indications are that warm weather Is headed this way I Louisville K Dec in inthe inthe the grasp of DC the coldest weather in inI I years Louisville with several mil ml milBon lion Bon c coal al almost at it hack toda today faced u a threat threatened cued ened coal shortage Tho fhe OhIo river which has for t two o weeks been because o of floating ice was today frozen almost from shore to shore f for r the tho first time In man many years and this condItion ac according cording cordin to the precludes the possibility of bringing any coal down the river for a week at least The Tue fuel is i less than twelve untIes away awa at the Patch the storage place lou fol coal for fOl and man ninny poInts south The temperature In tOllis Jonis ille during the tho nIght was on one above zero The Tho cold wave avo which hm has sot sol the south sonth shivering seems to have followed 1 almost s straight from Win to the Gulf of Mexico Jacksonville Fla was the thc coldest place in iii Flori Florida a today with a temper attire of 20 New Orleans registered 26 Mobile 22 2 10 Knoxville S and Nashville S Philadelphia is FrIgid I I Philadelphia Dec arrival of a severe severo cold wave wac from the west last night destroyed all hope of th lie speedy clearing away awn of tho Immense blocks of snow left here from the rec fall or of last week The mInimum temperature recorded t today dar darwas was 10 above aboe zero and melt melting leg ing snow hanks banks were converted Into hugo huge masses of ire All through the state slate severe cold weather Is reported the thermometer registering as low as asS S belo below I The river hero here is frozen over and the government engineers en engaged I on a lIne of the tho Delaware river have hae been obliged to dIscontinue operations New York i is Cold Now York Dec Yorkers awoke thIs morning to find the coldest day of the winter upon them Six de dc degrees I grees above aboe zero was registered at 5 a m Many persons were overcome by lie tho cold and the stations crowded with persons sIze shel shelter ter from northern cen central and western New York show correspond correspondingly severe sovere weather Orange Growers Concerned Dec I extreme cold wave now prevailing throughout the South extending as far ns as Mi Ii amI aini Fin Fla Is causIng considerable loty amon among the th orange growers and truck gui rs Freezing weather was recorded in the south last night as i far a as ter Jo Fin la There the thermometer registered at al Its 28 degrees Today was the cold coldest est esl day of the lie December on record in the vicinity of Atlanta On Ga The Tho present cold snap snap approaches that or of fourteen years ago aJo when It was 5 five Ove degrees below zero at Tallahassee Fla I Cumberland Frozen Nashville Tona fenn Dec the lie first hue since 1893 the itt ILl thIs Ilo nt II is with a athin athin thin cent cont of Icet ice ho thermometer sIx a boe Coldest In FIve Years Norfolk Va Dec coldest weather in five wInters was recorded here wIzen when the tho temperature dropped to lo 13 11 degrees above aboe I Ohio Is Ie a of Ice CincinnatI Dec the first time In iii ovOn the tho Ohio Obio river at al this place Is frozen over today except I fora or a mall space apace in the local harbor barbor Tugs are re plying up lip n nd down tho bar boi or In Ia an effort to keepIt open Over Oer a million worth o of 1 river property Js Is Ip Y The minimum today odar was i be below below low zero which Is the tho coldest o of the win winter ter 11 Much uch is is reported among the poor Coal Ina in a Blockade I Tol Toledo do Ohio Dee Dec blockades In the railroad ra d o tied up miles of loaded l od oded ed cd In the northwest their destination It fiS s saId l l today or more freIght cars care wore were in tho local yards I more tl than an half of them mcm loaded with coal RIse In fn Kansas City Mo Mb Dec av average crac rise In over the lie valley of iS 15 degrees was shown in reports to th burena here today At Omaha 10 degrees zero was recorded Moines Iowa I 1 degrees above and Huron S D reported I 1 d gre s above ahoo zero a rise of wo dt d grees from yesterdays lowest tern tem In Missouri Oklahoma and Kansas i I temperatures of between 1 12 and 2 21 degrees above zoro prevailed I |