The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-01-06

| CHICAGO. Jan. 6.-The sixth day
OF the frigid wave found Chicago suf-
fering intensely today. The miseries
OF the poor during the last few days
are described as terrible by the agents
for the charitable organizations. Eff
forts to give succor TO the needy and
suffering seem pitifully inadequate.
The coolest Official temperature
during the night was ten below zero
at a. m At midnight the mercury
stood at eight below and at nine this
morning it was six below.
Efforts to keep buildings warm and
water pipes from freezing brought
about an unprecedented condition In
the nre department, The department
was called upon to extinguish fires
l6S times In twenty-four hours. After
each blaze the men found their clothes
solid masses Of ice. Many have suf-
Tered from frozen hands and ears
Early today an auto fire patrol collid-
ed with fire engine, both turned
turtle and one man was probably
fatally injured, eight others being
sent 10 the hospital. The worst FIRE
was the Stock Yards hotel blaze in
which one person was killed and a
score injured
The Municipal Lodging House was
damned again last night, more than
400 men being cared for. The police
permitted the army OF homeless men
to sleep in Railways In the downtown
district. Thousands of appeals have
been received by the county agent
and the charities.
The Children's Aid Society, one OF
the greatest charities In the city, to-
day found its resources gone and was
forced 10 close its Offices.
The weather bureau promises no
relief for several days from present
conditions
Railroad motive power has been so
seriously affected that on several
roads, trains are from one TO six
hours late.
-Four deaths during the night are at
tributable to the severe cold There
have been a large number OF accidents
caused by the unusual conditions and
over a score OF cases OF frozen ears,
hands or feet have been reported
CLEVELAND, Ohio Jan. ga
shortage OF natural gas smote Cleve-
land today in the wake of the coolest
weather In five years The minimum
temperature was one below zero, of
fetal. with zero weather predicted for
tonight and six below for Sunday.
Gas is used in $4,000 homes. i'm a
large number of them for heating
as we'll as cooking In some outlying
districts, the gas went out altogether
i'm all OF them, the supply was In
adequate for heating and barely
enough for cooking.
The supply in factories has been
shut off 10 raise the pressure TO the
ton I'm the temperature alone can
AFFORD relief. A city investigation OF
the shortage Is planned.
Lakewood, a suburb, and the worst
sufferer. opened her school buildings
today temporarily 10 house the poor.
unable 10 keep warm I'm their homes.
One death has occurred here Three
have been picked up In city streets.
unsciousness from the cold Secretary
Harry Thomas, OF the Cleveland Fed.
Grafton OF Labor estimates the mum.
her unemployed at IS, 900 large mum.
Der OF them thrown ont OF work be-
cause OF the cold.
"ff the Snug, rich, well-housed well.
fed and clothed citizens of Cleveland
only knew how the other half lives or
rather exists In such weather as this
they would not permit us 10 send
away a single applicant for clothes
Iunsupplied,' said Supt Foster, OF the