FROZEN TO DEATH.
INTENSE GOLD IN CHICAGO. Chicago, January 6. The coldest weather this season is now being experienced here. The thermometer registered llOdeg. below zero last night, and the excessive cold has boon the cause of intense suffering; There are 200,000 unemployed in the sity, and appalling conditions prevailed today. Several tenement fires occured during the flight, and scores of families w/.M'e driven into the streets to face the hitter cold in their night-clothes. Several people crept into cellars to escape the pitiless blast, and died from the cold. The municipal lodging-houses are packed, and hundreds are'being allowed to sleep in the police stations." The weather forecast.states that it will be colder still. Blizzards are sweeping all the central States. Trains are blocked on the lines, and many of tliein have been abandoned. " , At Winnipeg l a strong wind accompanied the drop in the temperature last night to :l4cleo:. below zero. Forty electric tram wires were snapped owing to the intense cold, resulting in homeward-bound suburbanites l being stranded in the citv. °
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 31 January 1912, Page 3
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173FROZEN TO DEATH. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 182, 31 January 1912, Page 3
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