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Show COLD AND HUNGER PINCHING POOR Third Day of Intense Cold Brings Overwhelming Number Num-ber of Calls for Aid. MANY ACCIDENTS OCCUR Railroads Resuming Traffic 'Weather " Bureau Predicts Break in Low Temper-tures. Temper-tures. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 14 Passing Pass-ing of the high pressure area to the upper Mississippi valley and Great Lakes region today is bringing relief to the southwest from the cold wave. The mercury rose from four to nine degrees in Missouri over night, a little lit-tle more in Kansas and Oklahoma, while in northern and western Texas the readings reported to the local weather bureau generally were ten degrees higher than yesterday. Slowly rising temperatures with increasing in-creasing cloudiness that may bring snow in Missouri, Kansas and the northern part of Oklahoma were predicted pre-dicted At Kansas City the mercury stood at 7 1-2 degrees below zero at 6 o'clock this morning. Four and one-half one-half hours later it had risen to the zero mark. Des Moines, la., reported 1G degrees below zero at 7 a. m. Omaha experienced ex-perienced 12 below; St. Joseph ten below; Concordia, Kan., S below; Dodge City, 2 above; Fort Smith, Ark., 1G above and Corpus ChristI, Tex., 24 above. Wiro conditions were much improved im-proved and trains were resuming normal nor-mal schedules. Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 14. The third day of the cold wave in the southwest dawned today with no prospect pros-pect of Immodiate relief. The temperature tem-perature officially recorded here at 2 a. m. today was minus 7 As a result the poor of many cities were faced with tho likelihood of cold and hunger. hun-ger. Charity organizations were overwhelmed over-whelmed with calls for aid. While slightly moderating tempera tures were predicted ror today there was no expectation of general relief from the cold before tho end of the week. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas; Missouri Mis-souri and Oklahoma slept last night v.'ith the mercury still below the zero mark the many housewives in the natural nat-ural gas territory awoke to the necessity neces-sity of boiling the morning coffee on improvised heaters because the gas supply was weak, due to the abnormal .demands. Numerous acidents were ascribed indirectly to the cold in the explosion of frozen water heaters lighted before be-fore they were thawed, or the overheating over-heating of stoves so as to cause fires. The Missouri river was frozen over near Leavenworth, Kansas, for the first time in three years. St. Paul, Minn., Jan. 14. Gradually rising temperatures throughout the central northwest states today brought relief from the intense cold of the last two days and enabled railroads to resume re-sume normal service. In the twin cities the temperature was 17 degrees de-grees below early today as compared with 23 below two hours previously. Chicago, Jan. 14. The cold weather which has prevailed in the middle-west middle-west for the last 3G hours continued today but the weather bureau predicted predict-ed higher temperatures before night. In this morning at 7 a. m. street thermometers in the downtown district dis-trict registered four degrees below zero. Railroad traffic west of Chicago is still far from normal, although reports re-ports from Iowa and Minnesota where the most serious trouble was encountered encount-ered from the storm, state that conditions condi-tions are improving. |