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Show COLD WAVE FELT ! IN SALT LAKE Salt Lake, Jan 6. For the past thirty-six hours Salt Lake has been shivering In a cold wae that is I sweeping eastward across the coun-, coun-, try. Yesterday was the coldest day of the winter in this city, the thermometer ther-mometer being only able to struggle up as far as 13 degrees above zero during the day Seven degrees above recorded early yesterday morning, was the coldest, although the mild I weather of the paat few weeks made the sudden drop seem much colder. Temperature records from the east I indicate that the mild weather has not yet been interrupted bj the arrival arriv-al of the cold wave It was as warm yesterday in New York as It was in San Francisco, and almost as warm ! there as It was in Ios Angeles Even 1 88 fat west as Chicago the tenipera-1 tenipera-1 tare was comparatively high. The sudden advent of the cold v. raiher has caused much suffering j among the poor of the city Appeals I for fuel were unusually numerous at I the headquarters of charitv organizations organiza-tions in the last forty-eight hours Food and clothing have been well distributed among most of the pov-. pov-. ort 5 -stricken within the lpst few weeks, but in several quarters there is urgent need of fuel Ahout twenty appeals for coal have been made to ! Captain Wood of the Salt Like Char-jlties Char-jlties association in the past thirty-six thirty-six hours. Captain Wood says that In I two eaes. iit least, the mothers of I the destitute families are ill in bed 1 from exposure to the bitter cold. |