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-a sv r't2yyrfV,2,J( r 'fc v; y relief demands', due,to the cold, too heavy for'TheT charitable institution to handle The inexorable dropping of the temperature,' which reached 10 degrees below ero last night, and which the .weather 'bureau says may fall.stilj lower, has in tensified the suffering among the poor' and unemployed through out the city, and demands upon the charitable organizations" for fuel and food were event greater today .than yesterday. Zero weather is prevailing fromthe Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast and in its path is taking a heavy, toll of death and suffering. " All cities along the easterji "seaboard . are swamped, with applications for relief: r Continued cold weather; with even lower temperatures' at some points is the prediction of the weather bureau for the central west today. Warning has been sent out to shippers that in the north and northwest tempera tures are from 25 to 35 below must be expected, 20 to 30 below in the west, and 20 below to the southwest, and '10 to 15 "below to the south and east. The full force of the terrific cold is just making itself felt, many families who had provisions when the cold period began being forced now to ask aid from the city. Thursday night's scenes at the municipal lodging house, at Mc Dowell's coffee and bread line and the different police stations were re-enacted last night. Many men who had hoped to obtain -shelter at a temporary free lodging house at Halsfed and Lake street were disappointed, as the authorities were unable to prepare the build ings It -will be thrown open to the1 homeless tonight. ' Freezing -weather has brought about an unprecedented condi tion in the local fire department. The department was called upon to extinguish fires 168 times in the last 24 hours. The men are exhausted, arid all the reserves have been placed on duty, and they, too, are giving out. After each blaze the men find their clothes a solid mass of ice. Many have suffered frozen hands and ears.- Last night the police permitted the army of homeless meh to Sleep in hallways in the down town district. The regulations were suspended by common con sent, and the wanderers were per- mitted to remain wherever they could find a place to keep warm. The Children's Aid Society, one( of the greatest charities' in the city, which annually provides clothing and food for thousands of infant children, today found its resources gone, and waS forced to close its offices while a long line of freezing women waited for re lief for their little ones. Five deaths have occurred which are attributable to the cold. There have been a number of ac cidents caused by the unusual conditions, and over a score of cases of frozen ears, hands or feet have "been reported. Private physicians have treated hundreds n - a A