North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-02-27
Remarkable Cold.

Remarkable Cold.
4Ol. Black Sea frozen over for twenty
days.
462. The Danube was frozen so that an
army crossed on the ice.
76S. The Black Sea and Straits of the
Dardenelles were frozen over.
SD. The Danube, Elbe, and Seine
were frozen so hard as to bear heavy wag-
ons for month.
lo35. A frost in England on mid-sum-
mer 5 day was SO violent that it destroyed
the fruits of the earth.
1888. The Po was frozen from Gre
mona to the sea- Wine casks wnrn burst
and trees split by the action Of the frost,
with immense noise.
1886. The Danube was frozen to the
bottom, and remained so for long time.
1861. The Categat was frozen from
Norway to Jutland.
1914. All the rivers of Italy were fro
zen over.
1903. The wolves were driven by the
cold from Denmark, and crossed the ice to
Jutland.
I434. 1t showed for forty days without
interruption.
l4GS. The wine distributed to the SOL
diers in Flanders was cut in pieces with
hatchets.
l62l-22 All the rivers of Europe were
frozen, and the Zuyder Zee, the Hellespont,
We're covered with a sheet Of ice, and the
and the Venetian fleet was frozen up in
the lagoons of the Adriatic.
1858. Charles X. of Sweden, crossed
from Holstein to Denmark with his whole
| foot hnrSo b,r md ~. How,
The rivers in Italy bore heavy carriages.
1894. The Thames, in England, was
covered with ice sirty-0ne inches thick :
almost all the birds perishcd.
1854. The oaks were split in England
and coaches drove along the Thames.
1901. The same thing occurred, the fam.
ished wolves attacking men and beasts in
the streets of Vienna.
1909. Occurred that famous winter
called by distinction the cold ,cinter. All
the rivers and lakes were frozen, and even
| the sea for several miles from the Shore
The ground was frozen in England nine
| feet deep. Birds and Beasts were struck
dead III the fields, and men pcrished by
thousands in their houses. In the south
| of France, the olive trees were killed, and
the wine plantations mostly destroyed
The Adriatic sea was frozen, and even the
Mediterranean about Genoa; the citror
| and orange groves suffered extremely in
the finest parts of Italy.
l1lG. The winter was SO intense that
] people travelled across the straits from
Copenhagen to the province of Senia, in
Sweden. Fairs were held on the river
| Thames.
1926. In Scotland, multitudes of cattle
and sheep were buried in the snow.
1887. In January the ground in New
England frozc four feet deep.
| l74O. An OK was roasted whole upor
the Thames. The winter was scarcely in
ftrior to that of 1909. The snow lay tel
feet deep in Spain and Portugal. The
Zuyder Zee was frozen over, and thousands
of people went over it; and the lakes il
England were frozen over. During tn,
hard frost, palace was built Of ice at St
Petersburg, after an elegant model, and il
the just proportions Of Augustan architec
ture.
/ l744. Snow fell in Portugal to the dcptl
of twenty-three feet on the level. Thi
was a summer winter in New England
according to Parson Smiths Journal.
i 1885. The winters were very severe
In England the strongest ale exposed t
the air in glass was covered with ice one
eighth of an inch thick. These were very
mild winters in New England. See Smith
Journal.
| III. The Elbe was frozen to the bot
tom.
l776. The Danube bore ice five fee
thick below Vienna. Vast numbers of thu
feathered and iinny tribes perished. !,
Holland and France wine froze in tn
cellars.
/ 1896. Perhaps the coolest day eve
known in London was December 25th
1896, when the thermometer was l60 be
low zero.
From 1900 to 1912. The winters wer'
remarkably cold, particularly the latter j,
Russia, which surpassed in intensenes
that Of any winter in that country 70
many preceding years, and caused tn
destruction of the French army in its re
treat from Moscow. What with the loss il
battle, and the effects Of this awful ant
calamitous frost, France lost in the cam
paign of this year, more than 4OO, 900 men
| In some parts Of New England tho ther