Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1893 — CINCINNATI POOR STAY ABED. [ARTICLE]

CINCINNATI POOR STAY ABED.

Coal Becoming Scarcer and Higher and the River 14 Rising. The situation in regard to the coal famine in Cincinnati is more serious than ever. There is now on hand in the various yards and elevators about three weeks’ supply. The amount now on the road to Cincinnati is estimated at 100,000 bushels. The residents In ths suburbs are having the hardest time. The supply is the shortest that the city has known for twenty years. Coal dealers in Cincinnati are selling at $6 and $0.50 per ton, while directly across the river la Covington and Newport the

price la |4. The abnormal condition «r things Just now—the river gorged with loe, navigation absolutely olosed and the thermometer five degrees below zero —is causing Intense suffering among the poor, many of whom are oompellea to remain In bed to keep warm. The river Is rising and filled With floating lee. A further rise of two feet, which is threatened, will oause another break in the ice.