The daily Gate City., 1914-02-08
FIGHT FOR LIFE
IN WINTERS GRIP
First Real Blast Of Zero
Weather Causes Intense
Suffering Among
the Poor.
FISHERMEN IN PERIL
Forty Men Off f.New Foundland Face
Death by Starvation
on the Ice
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OF tne ice
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limited Press Leased Wire Service. I
CHICAGO, Feb. Zero weather
for the central states OF the middle
western group was tonight predicted
for tomorrow by the Chicago weather
bureau. The Chicago forecaster said
the area of extreme cold was moving
eastward with slight tendency to-
ward the south. Increasing warmth
is promised for Monday and Tuesday.
Tonight the center of the cold wave
was located in Nebraska and western
Iowa. Below zero temperatures were
reported from this region and from
the Dakotas but as the cold wave
moves east 1t is decreasing in sever
ity and while temperatures of 10 to 80
below were reported this morning, to-
nights coolest report was four below
at Hastings, Neb. Several Dakota
temperatures equaled this but none
exceeded it.
Temperature Of A above is predicted
for Chicago tomorrow and with 1t is
expected increased suffering among
the city poor. Charitable organiza-
tions already are swamped with ap-
peals for aid and hundreds are being
given free fuel and free food. Yes
'terday's snow helped tho sst.sas sis,a
somewhat. Thousands Of unemployed
men were given work by the city
cleaning the streets.
Near Zero There.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. Near
zero weather prevailed here tonight
with snow that promised to hinder
rail and wire traffic before daybreak.
Hungry and Cold.
CHICAGO, Feb. 1.-Two thousand
hungry, destitute, ragged men bat
tied in the snow here tonight for
soup tickets" at a municipal lodging
house at Twelfth street and Blue
Island avenue, and the entire front
OF the lodging house was wrecked be-
fore the police reserves arrived and
quelled the riot. When the fight
started near the head of the line, the
tail enders rushed for more favorable
positions and painful, injuries were
inflicted before the fight was stopped
Applications for relief were made to
the county agent by more than 200
families who claimed to have neither
food, fuel nor money
Fishermen In Distress.
WASHINGTON, Feb. with only
frozen fish for food. forty men on the
American fishing schooners frozen In
the ice in the Bay of Islands, New
now fear death from starv.
alton.
Their plight was told to the navy
department tonight by wireless dis
patches from the tug Potomac, which
made gallant race to relieve the
mariners, but failed by
leagues to penetrate the dense ice
foes and rescue the helpless men.
After desperate battle with the
bergs, the little vessel was forced to
give up and is now steaming up Cape
Breton Island. The e-smashing
bows of the powerful vessel having
failed to go through the grinding mass
revolving around the hapless vessels,
officials have relinquished hope of
sending any boat through and the only
hope held out for the lives of the i'm
prisoned men is an escape over the
ice. With their provisions almost ex-
hausted, their winters catch of fish
lost, one schooner crushed to splint-
ers and sent to the bottom and the
rest of the fleet in hourly peril of de-
the men on board are re-
signed to financial ruin, according to
dispatches and pray only
that their lives be spared.
The lives of those of the men who
risk the flight across the ice may be
saved by keeping constant patrol of
vessels along the edge of the ice foe,
and navy department officials expect
to put this plan into operation i'm
Saved From the Ice.
CHICAGO, Feb. Half dead from
exposure, Adol Larson, eighteen, and
his brother, Edward. thirty-fve. fisher
men, were taken aboard the Dunham
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