Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-01-14
TRAIN IS CAPTURED.
Residents of Arcola, ILL.,, Secure a
Supply of Coal.
FUEL FAMINE LEADS TO SEIZURE.
Train of Sixteen Cars Passing
Through the City Is Emptied of
the Precious Stuff-SufferinS
at Many Points.

ArcOia, ILL.,, Jan. 12.-ArcOla, which
during the last two weeks has SUI
fered a coal famine, now has coal to
burn. Saturday morning an Illinois
Central train loaded with 16 big cars
of coal stopped here for few minutes
to repair the engine. The coal was
immediately confscated by body of
citizens. Efforts to buy the coal from
the railway company were fruitless,
and the crowd, which had by this time
increased to 500 or 600 people, set to
work to unload the coal. Many promi-
nent citizens assisted in the raid.
Farmers bringing corn to town were
persuaded to turn their wagons into
drays and assist in hauling coal to
those most in need. Several hundred
wagons were backed around the train
IN the course Of the day. The coal was
distributed in ton lots. A weigher
was secured and a strict account kept
in hopes of making satisfactory set
Element with the company which owns
the coal. For the last few days there
has been considerable suffering on ac-
count of the fuel shortage.
Shortage in New York.
New York, Jan. 12.--The residents
of the lower East Side are having a
hard time these days Of cold and no
coal. "There is not enough coal at
ten pounds of steam," said the pro-
prietor Of a ten cents a pail coal yard,
land, by the way, there is no more
coal at ten cents pail. 1t is now IA
cents pail and smaller pails.'
Mayor Low has sent letter to the
presidents of the anthracite coal
roads asking them to meet him on
Tuesday morning to consider some
methods by which the coal supply in
the city might be increased The
| shortage and high price of coal has
led to a general advance in rents Of
apartments and of rooms in all city
hotels where guests are not protected
by contracts.
Philadelphia Shivers.
Philadelphia, Jan. l2.--This city,
the greatest coal center in the world,
is without coal. The suffering among
the poor is very great. People. who
are able to burn gas are IN that way
keeping from freezing. Those who
cannot afford gas are in deplorable
state. The demand for oil heaters is
immense. Absolutely nothing has
been done by the municipality to re-
le3e the distress, and CHART BILE or
CARNATIONS are able only to carry out
their usual programmes.
Misery at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Jan. 12.-Cold and hun
ger have found many poor, starving
mortals in Cincinnati during the last
few days. Inaccessible prices for
coal are able allies of the cruel wind.
| The demand for aid from the local
charitable institutions has Increased
greatly.
St. Paul in Sore Plight.
| St. Paul, Mimi. Jan. 12.-ln half of
the homes in St. Paul the members
of the household use the kitchen al
most entirely. The coal famine is re-
! sponsible for this condition of af-
fairs, and, according to the local
| dealers, the residents of St. Paul are
just beginning to feel the famine
Coal dealers say: I'VE have no hard
have any, AS high as $50 per ton
was offered by those who needed coal.
Tena nts in the absence of coal are
making away with fences, back stairs
and everything in the line of wood
and lumber in order to keep the
| houses warm. 1t is feared the flour
mills may shut down if coal does not
soon arrive in Minneapolis, for none
have more than a ten-days' supply.
Most of the milling companies have
contracted for fuel, but they are I'M
able to get it here because of the
congestion of freight traffic.
Movement Of Coal.
Reading, Pa, Jan. 12.-The Philadel-
phia & Reading railroad officials say
that for the week ending Sunday night
more anthracite coal was taken down
the main line than for any previous
week in years. The total is 10000 of all
classes of cars, or an average of /, ZOO
cars for each working day of the week,
equal to nearly 225, 900 tons. This was
distributed in the eompany's terri
tory as far as New York, and along its
branch in this state and elsewhere
The coal famine throughout this Sec
ton has reached such an acute stage
that many industries in the smaller
towns will soon have to close and in
the country districts the distress is SIC
widespread that teams have started
for the Schuylkill county coal fields
80 and 40 miles distant, to supply press.
ing necessities. In answer to the crit.
cisms that if SO much coal is mined and
shipped why it does not relieve the
famine, it is stated that there are many
Industrial establishments that do not
use coke or bituminous, and thai
many scores of these must be supplied
with anthracite to keep them in opera