Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1903-01-13
CITY DECIDES TO GIVE RELIEF TO PooF
Thermometer Falls Below Zero, While Fires
nemain Unhghted.
IOWA RESIDENTS ALSO SUFFER SEVERELY
Frost King OOnguers Missouri and Invades
Even kentucky.
MICHIGAN EXPERIENCES GREAT HARDSHIP
Ohio, wisconsin, Indiana and New
York DO Not Escape General Reign
of BIiEznrds aud Terrible
Winter weather.

"euthers
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.-Two degrees below
zero was the official temperature for Chi
cago and vicinity at A. IN. today, ac-
companiod by a brisk northwest wind.
Much suffering among the poor, who have
with difficulty endured the moderate
weather since the coal famine became acute,
has been reported. and number Of deaths
are said TO have beon due directly to the
cold Steps have already been taken by the
mayor TO provide fund for the relief OF
suffering among the destitute.
The temperature which was below at
midnight, began soon to moderate until at
o'clock this morning below was regis
tered
Much delay to suburban and street trans
portation lines was occasioned by the sud
den drop OF II degrees and a number Of
minor accidents owing to the heavy fall Of
snow were reported.
Cold weather Kills Six.
List Of the dead from the cold:
FRANK LEMIS, 40 years old. badly
frozen, died in a saloon.
r. ROSE, walked the streets all night
and died soon after entering a warm room
OF a lodging house.
C. G.. POOL, Manila, Ia, cook on dining
car frozen stiff in his room.
PATRICK MGOvERN, overcome by
cold, fell from his wagon; fractured skull.
WILLIAM MADIGAN, found dead in
lodging house from exposure.
w. II. WAHL, swallowed laudanum be-
cause unable to secure good fuel for his
family.
Iowa in Frost Kings Grip.
DES MONIES. Ia, Jan. 12.-Extreme cold
has prevailed throughout Iowa for thirty
hours, the temperature ranging from zero
TO below, accompanied by considerable
wind. 1t was below zero here this morn
ing.
Hard coal cannot be obtained and the soft
coal supply is exhausted in many places,
resulting in much suffering.
Kansas City Also suffers.
KANSAS CITY. Jan. 12--Zero weather
prevailed in Kansas City at o'clock
this morning, fall OF 11h de-
grees in the last twelve hours. There is
no prospect of moderation today. and suf-
fering because of lack Of fuel will prove
severe.
The supply of coal in Kansas City. which
was short on Saturday. had diminished
greatly over Sunday. Similar conditions
exist at most points throughout this part
OF the southwest.
ST. LOUIS Jan. 12.-An intensely frlgId
temperature prevails here. At O'Clock
this morning the temperature registered .
degrees above, but by $3.50 o'clock the
bright sunshine had raised the mercury to
10 above. Two inches of snow has brought
out sleighs
Cincinnati Has Fuel.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 12.-Two-tenths of a
eSgree above zero was the minimum record
by the Weather bureau this morning. Two
degrees below was shown by many ther-
mome,ers. This was a fall of 32 degrees
in eighteen hours. Fortunately Cincinnati
has no coal famine
ST. PAUL, Jan. 12.-one degree below
was the coldest reported here yesterday
Moorhead reports below and Duluth [
below.
LA CROSSE, via, Jan. 12-It was
below this morning. with cutting wind
making the cold felt more than at any
time this season.
No Coal In Detroit.
DETROIT. Mich, Jan. 12.-Following oil
the heels of the most severe snowstorm o
the season yesterday came the coldest nigh
Of the winter In this city. At 1880 this morn
ing the thermometer registered below
zero. The zero temperature was general al
over the lower peninsula below Alpena.
The international trains on the Wabasl
road were an average of ten hours late, ow
ing TO the ice in the river, and the Michi
gan Central and Grand Trunk also suffere
much delay. Hundreds OF people who liv
across the line and are employed on thi
side did not get to their work until nearl
noon as the ferries were bloekaded by tn
ice.
CLEVELAND o., Jan. 1.-THE loves
temperature OF the winter, below zero
was recorded here early today. At othe
points In northern Ohio the temperatur
fell to s below. During the night the win
reached a velocity OF forty-four miles a
hour from the west, and, combined with tn
extremely low temperature and scarcity {
fuel in many quarters, caused much suffer
ing.
Practically all trains on the trunk lin
roads werS running behind schedule tim
today, most of them being reported fror
one to two hours late.
Wabash eastbound train No. 4, which LEI
here on the ferry Great Western soon afto
midnight, did not arrive az the dock I
Windsor until noon today. While the pas
sengers We're kept warm during thel
twelve-hour trip across the river. there wa
no dining car on the ferry and II was
hungry lot Of people that the Wabash ser
TO a hotel for dinner after the train
arrival. The ferry was in no danger at an
time.
Kentucky is Cold.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Jan. 12-The ofici,
temperature al o'clock this morning va
degrees above zero, the coolest of n
winter.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Jan. IA,
cording to the Weather bureau Il was
below zero here this morning. This Is
relief from yesterday, when the mercul
went TO IA below, with the wind at thirt!
seven miles an hour. There has as y
been no suffering from fuel shortage.
PEORIA. H., Jan. l2.-After a severe
cold day ana night several thermomete
In the suburbs and on the bluffs register,