Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-12-30 | Page 15 | Salt Lake Has near Riot over Coal Shortage

SALT LAKE HAS U NOT OVER COAL , SHORTAGE With one car of coal arriving in Salt Lake during the last twenty-four hours, that city Is facing a fuel famine. fam-ine. Retail dealers have been forced to refuse further orders and the situ-ation situ-ation is regarded acute. More than two hundred persons crowded into the Bamberger company's com-pany's downtown office in Salt Lake today at non and demanded that each be served. A near riot threatened when informed that there was no coal to be hfcd today, although promises prom-ises were made that shipments en route, tied up by tho storm, would arrive late this afternoon or early tomorrow. to-morrow. It was six above zero in Salt Lake this morning.