The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-10
One Half Ton Limit Issued
by Some Firms as Cold
Wave Stays.
NO BREAK IS IN SIGHT
Four Lose Lives in State:
Icy Highways Cause
Many Accidents.
Hourly Temperatures

Faced with a serious coal
shortage and subzero wealth
er, a majority of Indianapolis
coal dealers this afternoon
limited customers to orders of
one-half ton or one ton on a
cash basis.
Cold weather that was swept into
indianapolis and Indiana by bliz<
ard early yesterday is to remain
through tomorrow, and perhaps
longer, the Weather Bureau said.
The temperature was at noon
after rising from below at 6 a. m.
A 24-inch snowfall in the Eastern
mining area, a shortage of railroad
coal cars and the freezing of the
coal barge route to Cincinnati on
the Ohio River are factors in the
acute local situation, dealers said.
Coal Prices Boosted
If barge routes from the North
west are frozen or if the supply in
the Northwest lake docks is ex-
hausted, the situation will be more
critical, it was said.
Coal prices have been boosted so
to rs cents ton by the producers
due to overtime labor in the mines,
dealers said.
Customers who attempted to or
der coal this weekend were told by
some dealers that they would have
to pay cash. One firm reported it
was entirely out Of coke and West
Virginia coal. HS's
Already, the new attack of cold
that forced the mercury from AZ to
below zero-has claimed four lives
in the state, and many city persons
were weekend victims of ice and
traffic accidents.
There were 38 fire alarms in the
city over the weekend.
Ice Goats Streets, Sidewalks
Streets and sidewalks remain
coated with treacherous ice frozen
on them when rain Saturday
night turned to snow.
Exposure was fatal to William
Kerns, SO, Pennsylvania Railroad
shop worker at Logansport. He was
found nearly frozen in his home.
Earl L. Sturgeon, 4S, Anderson,
Big Four Railroad brakeman,
slipped as he attempted to board a
freight train at Greensburg and
was killed.
Russell E. Looney, IS, was found
daad in his automobile near Rush
vile after his automobile had run
into tree and utility pole.
Youth Hurt in Accident
Injuries suffered in head-on coll
.ision between two automobiles
caused the death of Robert Russell,
Is, Augusta, a Civilian Conservation
Corps member, at Evansville.
Four flremen were overcome by
cold and another was injured in a
fire which caused $4,000 damage to
business block at Lafayette.
Snowplows are working on high
ways in the La Porte and Fort
Wayne areas to clear them of large
snowdrifts, the State Highway
Commission reported.
Road SIS for six miles south of
Shelby and all roads north of U. s.
Road and eat of Goshen are
closed. Ice has n. lie all highways
perilously slick.
Edward Benson, 10, of 230 N.
Bellevieu-pl, is in critical condition
at City Hospital with injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by an
automobile driven by William j.
Henderson, 1923 N. Harding-st, at
Michigan-st and Holmes-av today.
The youth apparently fell in front
of the car. Henderson was pursued
to King-av before being overtaken
by an eye witness, Mike Haney, 534
N. Tibbs-st.
Henderson said he was unaware
that he had struck the youth. He
was arrested on vagrancy charge
and bail fixed at $1,000 pending an
investigation of the accident.
Offer Is Turned Down
Injured in auto accidents, all
traceable to the slippery condition
of the streets, were Daniel Miller,
SO. of Pittsboro; Mrs. Myrtle Bride
well, AZ, of Richmond; Joseph
Gooch, 10, Negro, 455 w. 1sth-st;
Fred Jones Jr, 10, Terre Haute:
Fireman Charles Britton, 81, Of 2510
E. Westinghouse; Ernest Butler,
36. Hadley, and Miss Catherine
Stout, 1853 Carrollton-av.
The Works Board today turned
down an offer of several business
men for ashes free to be distributed
at slippery downtown street inter-
sections.
Claude E. Shower. street commits
sioner, explained that the ashes
might contain wire or nails or glass
and cut tires of autos, making the
city liable for damages.