New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-05

-Four deaths from lioc1iAs oAN WV ~N~~~ -
pected to end in like manner were reported yes
terday.
HOOKS wam th,TysEh c No SG' 1ns
found dead in snow cart.
LUsKI. Andrew (sqPposed), body found banging on
apparently had fallen from bridge over Pack
peqa,e efrorts to save himself from drowning he
being frozen fast to the rocks to which he chung
Pay egy ndqss 9 81 Was found in his pocket
Unknown sixty years old found frozen to death
aT 9aFn aaTbor. staten Island Name william
Pike on card found in pocket Man was poorly
S Sad broken fai n-- ~ ''''~'-' $3.50
9oana Man n tn. ' sn0 orr
. aG sa tn nre found on saturday, night
almost sompleteiy Covered yt tho body Gold
lacks only articles in pockets
THOUGHT TO DE DYING.
CAMPBELL John ana Ellen S9 SIS East
Not expected to live,
The Campbells. with their hands. and
feet frozen. and suffering from starvation and
the inhalation OF illuminating gas were found
in thei- apartment OF two rooms on the first
door os the ramshacl'e tenement house There
was hardy any furniture in the rooms. most
Of tho windows were broken. and the stove
had 10 fire in II. Neither was there any food
| or any money in tho rooms. and the couple
we're scantily clad.
THE woman was found IN bed with small
b,anket over her The man was found crouched
on n dilapidated sofa. underneath gas Jet
that was wide open. Both were unconscious.
II Is believed that the man had attempted to
light the gas as several matches that had not
been lighted were found by his side. 1t is
also thought that he had been weak from
exposure and lack of nourishment that he had
fallen on the sofa in sheer exhaustion. after
| turning the gas.
| The smell of the gas penetrated tina rooms
occupied by Mrs. Hensier, who lives in the
rear OF the same floor, ana she told the owner
| of the house, Michael CaVa1auga an old man.
| who lives in the house. He called Patrolman
! Urquhart. who broke in the door.
1t was learned from neighbors that Campbell
| had always been hard working. industrious
| man. who never drank and never quarrelled
| with his wife About a month ago he lost his
! position hostlar. and no one knew how the
! two had subsisted since then. Neither had ever
| appealed to the neighbors for help He had
| applied at several stables for employment but
| had failed TO get II.
Patrolman O'Brien, OF the Alexander-ave.
station, saw snow cart being aimess' y
| pulled about by a horse in the Southern Boule-
| ward near the Third-ave. bridge, in The Bronx,
last evening. He thought the driver had gone In
somewhere to take a drink and stopped the
horse. When the did not appear he had
| an impulse TO look into the wagon.
He the driver lying In heap OF snow.
| unconscious. O'Brien called patrol wagon and
| had him removed to the station. An ambulance
! called from the Lincoln Hospital, but the
| man was dead before 1t arrived COroner'S Ply
! sican Curtis said exposure was the cause OF
| death.
The hospitals were called on yesterday te trea,
many cases resulting from cold and exposure
and long after this cold spell has broken up the
wards will be full of cases of pneumonia and
kindred ills resulting from exposure. The poor
| are suffering terribly. They crowd the doors OF
the Charity Organization Society and the Asso-
citation for Improving the Condition of the Poor
The Salvation Army shelters could not accom-
modate the applicants. and the Municipal Lodg-
Ing House last night, as every night since the
extreme cold came. filled to its utmost and
had to send some three hundred men to the pier
| of the Charities Department, where they were
allowed to sit in warmed rooms all night. They
received bread and coffee before they went there
and this morning before being sent out, will ge:
! bread, oatmeal and milk and coffee.
There has been n great demand for coal ir
| small quantities all through the East Side. Harry
| q. Barber, who last winter in the coal famine
continued to sell coal in pals at the rate OF Sc
| ton when others raised the price and the lit
| tie East Side dealers sent the prices up and re-
| duced the measure. is having some fifteen hun
| dred customers day They get thirty-hvt
! pounds OF coal for 10 cents. Other dealers who
| sell by the bag or pail also overwhelmed
| with customers. The poor sacrificing every
| thing to get a little coal.