The Sentinel=record., 1913-11-12
FAMINE AND FREEZING THREAT EMS UNLESS RELIEF TRAIN
 CAN BE RUN SOON.
24 INCHES OF SNOW FILL
Streets 5lockaded, Many Dead and Cannot Be Buried, City Schools Are Closed and Water Supply Threat. ened, Also a Coal Famine.

Cleveland. Ohio, Nov. 1i--With fai", warmer weather predicted for tomor- row, Cleveland tonight is hopeful of a speedy cessation Of the difficulties that have beset the city since the worst snowstorm in its history de. seconded upon it Sunday night.
 A resumption of the blizzard would be fatal, since it would prevent re- lief from the food scarcity which the city now faces. Rain would seriously complicate the situation because food l conditions then would ensue. 1 A result of the disturbed state or the lake. a new menace, today devel- ! oped. The drinking water has turned to the color of coffee, and warnings were issued by the health department to obviate a typhoid fever epidemic by boiling drinking water
 The number of dead as a result of the storm was increased to five today when John Richmond, 5S years old, was crushed to death by the collapse of the roof of hls house beneath the weight of snow, and William Com bert was frozen in snowdrift.
 The work of cleaning up the city was made possible this afternoon when the snowfall ceased for a pe- riod Fifteen hundred workmen sue ceeded in putting IA city street car lines in order, and others probably will be running on schedule by tomor- row.
 In the meantime telephone and tele- graph companies have cleared away a large part of the wreckage resulting from the destruction of poles and es. l ablished a few connections with | ueighboring cities. The work of re- mobilization so far has developed that the vortex of the blizzard was lim,t. ed to an area of some fifty miles around Cleveland
 The hospitals are greatly handicap Ded. Some have experienced a la k of proper food and others have had to | do with candle light. Not until the snow clears away will the police be able to solve the mystery of numer- l OAN NlSoPPCaA 0AlStS iCkOt ~-h lO buCii.
 Business men and factory owners estimated the loss In business [, wholesale and retail companies at many millions of dollars. A great part of the citizens are unable 10 leave their homes.
 1 The streets are impossible for wagons and undertakers are unable to remove the bodies of persons who have died since the breaking of the storm The bodies Of seven persons who have died at hospitals since Sun day night have not yet been taken to morgues, several more are being held at the city's correction farm ana even private funerals cannot be held, as the bodies cannot be taken to the cemeteries.
 Many bakeries are closed because of lack of power and unless coal trains can reach the city soon. an alarming bread shortage threatens.
 No improvement in the milk sitna- ton has been effected and there is an actual milk famine because the ! companies are unable to deliver the milk on hand or to obtain any more from dairies in the surrounding ter 1 ritory.
 An average of 24 inches of snow fell during the storm and snow drifts have piled as high as 20 feet. l Every highway out of this section will be imassable for several days. The city schools were closed today. but probably will be opened again to- l morrow.
 1 Three hundred passengers were re- ported magooned in four interurban cars at Gates Mills, near here, late today Relief parties are on the way to them, but are encountering huge drifts and are greatly delayed.
 IA Nickel Plate train consisting of 40 carloads of hogs and chickens. is stalled in West Cleveland. The sock Is freezing. The steamer Cornelius. laden with coal. cleared here late to- day for Lorain. She is the first ship to venture outside the harhor break water since Sunday.
 It is believed here that the steamer IG J. Grammer, which went aground off I.orain, will be saved. It was re- ported here that Brooches buoy was in position ready to take off Captain John Burns of Buffalo and his crew of % if danger is threatened.