The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-06
MUCH SUFFERING :
FROM BLIZZARD
Famine Adds To Acuteness of Sitna.
ton in the Northwest-Railroad
Badly Crippled

Badly Crippled,
| MINNEAPOLIS. MINI, Jan. G.--The
specter or famine has begun TO stalk
through the northwest, as the result;
of the blizzard which has been sweep
ing thot territory Tor SO hours. Frurl
interior points today came long de
layed reports Ct dead, injured and
dying.
Piled SHOWS and defective rails hava
crippled the railroads. particula .ly
throughout Iowa Reports from Da
kota towns are not sure OF sufficien,
stores OF coal and provisions, and cat
tie on the western ranges along .hc
great grazing stretch from the gull
northward through Nebraska. the Da
kotas and Canada are reported dying
by the hundreds. They lack feed, shell
ter and care.
A dispatch from Winnipeg says the
body OF Andrew Coleman was found
frozen solid under tree near Darwin
Manitoba. yesterday. On Saturday nc
and man named Bailey started 20
walk to town. On Tuesday Bailey was
found badly frozen and In a semi-con
scious condition. He could tell little
about his wanderings. but IL Was
learned that Coleman had left the
camp. A searching party found Cole
mans body.
Five men were injured In wreck
on the ST. Paul at Twin Brooks, eighS
miles west of Miibank. s. D.. when
freight train No. SO was hit by 4
westbound snow plow.
A dispatch from Huron, 8. d.. says
Wolsey. Broadland, Yale and Virgil
report no hard coal and very little
fuel OF any kind. Cavour. Washington
Alpena aud Hitchcock have OILY few
tons OF soft Goa, and no other fuel.
The entire Jim river valley Is under
nearly two feet of snow, and IL Is
feared railroads will be blocked and q
fuel famine will follow. Reports from
southern Minnesota. northwestern
Iowa and Wisconsin points continue q
Indicate a coal famine. The roads
which generally feed these places have
leen unable TO move any freight. Tbs
ST. Paul road has abandoned all traf
fic west of Prairie Du Chen, Wis,
II is reported.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.--Those New
I Workers who did not crawl to work
today assumed more undignified and
much more painful posture and slid To
work During the night and early
hours of today nearly six hundred Pc:
sons had been treated At hospitals In
Greater New York or by private ply
sicians for injuries received from fall
ing on the ice-coated streets and side
! walks.
The rain. which froze as Ii touched
! the ground. formed one great sheet ot
i ice over the great city and by 9 o'clock
last night Gotham was one vast skat.
ing rink.
Horses fell to such an extent that
street traffic was almost impossible
Before midnight there were blocks o.
nearly every surface and Elevated line
and today they are making little er
fort to maintain q regular schedule
Mails were late getting to the post
office because of the slippery sondi
/ ton OF the streets. Few horses are
seen on the street today and delivery
business f. practically paralyzed. A
dense fog that hangs over the rivers
has made ferry traffic SOW and dan.
gerous.
So busy have been the hospitals car
ing for injured that ambulances could
not answer all the calls and express
wagons were placed in commission
Outside physicians had to be called In
by nearly all the hospitals.
/ One man was killed and several
others hurt last night in a collision
I between elevated trains on the Will
I liamsburg bridge. the slippery rails
preventing the emergency brakes
/ from holding on the wheels.
Hundreds Dying From Exposure.
! MADRID, Jan. 6.-hundreds Of per-
homeless by the recent floods are dy-
/ ing from exposure to the unprece.
6ented cold that has now gripped the
flooded territory. The situation is
most desperate and all attempts 10
furnish adequat" relief have proved
,unavailing Even the herbors are Ice
bound. Unless the cold spell abates
/ soon. an enormous death toll will re-
suit.
sSSSSSSSSSoSGS oScoooSSSSSSa
when he found him out there. | can!
hardly believe 1t now"
Need Money For Funeral.
"Yep, I've got tn work" Ii was
Joe, the eldest brother. driving de-
livery wagon up to the door as I left.
'Tll work up to the time OF the fun.
leral own this horse and wagon.
Earned It out of my commissions for
the tailor | drive for. But I'll have
to sell Mollie Ctne horse) and the
wagon now. Blu. | thought I'd WORK
It'll the last minute. The folks need
the money for tho funeral"
walked back to the car tracks. in
the shadow of those elevators that
we're bursting With food and typified
the source of this great city's wealth
had seen both sides OF the changes
in life that one cold day had brought
tc Chicago.
only wished that some of those
happy people back on Madison-st
could have seen what saw. Maybe
1.-THE sight would have had a message
for them that would mean more hap
p.ness for others IN 1910
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