The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-25
DIES OF COLD IN RAGS
Girl in ThrOng of Shoppers
Falls InSenSible.
THREE PERISH OF EXPOSURE
Coolest Day of the Season in New
York and New Jersey, with the
Thermometer Below Zero Up State.
Freeze Damages Fruit Crop in the
West Indies-Other Victims.

New York, Dec. N.-Three deaths and
several eases Of exposure TO the arctic
temperature were credited to the cold
on the police blotters this afternoon.
There was also a great amount Of severe
suffering, a very general discomfort not
recorded but experienced all over the city.
Up State and in New Jersey it was re-
ported as the coolest day of the season.
AT Schenectady the mercury reached 10
degrees below.
Silas Underhill, an attendant in the Su-
Dreme Court of the State, sixty-elght
years old, succumbed to the cold to-day
and died few minutes after he was
found
James Lambert, address unknown. was
found at West Broadway and Third street
by policeman. and the ambulance sur
geon pronounced the man dead.
Of all the tragedies the case of little
girl Of fifteen dying in the Kings County
Hospital. Brooklyn, from exposure, seems
most pathetic. The child fell inseusible
at the threshold of the Union Church of
Christ on Linwood street, where she had
tottered from in front Of a nearby toy
shop
Woman Picks Up Dying Child.
Few in The throng OF shoppers through
which the child had passed noticed her
pathetic condition. She was clad only in
d short frock of fiimsy material that fell
scarcely 10 her knees. Her low shoes were
torn. and the bare toes and heels pro
truded through the tattered leather and
through great rents in the stockings. As
a woman appeared the girl fell on the
pavement, a little frozen bundle Of rags
The woman picked up the unconscious
child and carried her to her home, lay
ing her before a blazing log fire. a pc
Aceman followed the woman, and when
he saw the pitlful condition Of the child
summoned an ambulance, and the child
was taken TO a hospital Restoratives
were forced down her throat The child
became half conscious. but could make no
answer 10 the many inquiries Of the doc
tors and nurses. She murmured only one
word, Jennie" before she reiapscd into
Inconsistencies and began TO sink into
the sleep OF death.
Other Victims of Freeze
N'ttNA N4AtiilAo va tif tti1 were MISS
Helen Stacey. sixty years old. who was
picked up in a starving condition: VIII
liam Reilly. twenty-six years old. and
two unidentified men. The latter three
lad their hands and arms frozen.
The temperature tonight is higher than
il was early in the day. but the local
weather bureau does not predict any
great change in the Thermometer, which
at S o'clock registered Il degrees above
zero.
The Weather Bureau reports that
Northwest storm warnings were dis
played alOag the coast from North Caro-
lima TO New YORK. The low area eff the
Middle Atlantic coast appears to be deep
ening. Strong northwest winds are there
fore probable tins afternoon and tonight
along the coast from Hatteras to Cape
Cod.
Cold Wave in Jamaica.
Kingston, Jamaica. Dec. PA heavy
''norther" has prevailed here since yes
terday and its force is stiH undated.
Enormous damage has been done to the
banana and other fruit crops.
h07r was overturned ir tha arl,r.~