Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-03-04
COLD WINTERS.

While We have encountered unprece-
den,edly cold weather this Winter, j;
may not be srniss TO record some Of the
most notable Winters Of the past:
In 4Ol the EuIine Sea was frozen owe,
tor twenty 4Rys.
Ia SIS the Black sea was covered with
ice for twenty days, and in 663 the ice
was eighty feet thick.
10 164 the tao seas at Constantinople
were frozen a hundred miles from tbs
shore.
In SCI the Elbe, the Danube and the
Seine were frozen during four weeks.
In 1903 the Thames in England was
frozen over for fourteen weeks.
In 1923 the Mediterranean was entirely
frozen.
In 1923 the Baltic Sea was passable
for travellers for six weeks, and again in
l402 the Baltic was frozen from Pome-
rama TO Denmark
In li07 ali the small birds in England
persisted from the intense cold.
In li05 Iamerlaue made an incursl0n
into China, and lost his men, horses aud
camels by the excessive cold.
In 1920 Paris experienced so great cod
that the city was depUpuiated, and ami
mails fed on cJrpses in the streets.
In 1888 the large fowls OF the air
sought shelter in the towns Of Germany.
In 1888, at Paris, snow fell during
forty days aud forty nights necessarily.
In 1869, in France and Germany, wine
vas frozen 50 hard that it was cut in
blocks ami sold by weight.
In 1910 the intense cold lasted three
months, and all the fruit trees Of the
Province Of LaDgu=dOc were destroyed
In 1922 the rivers Of Europe and Zuier
Zee were frozen, and ice covered the
Hellespont
In 1858 Charles y. Of Sweden crossed
on the ice from Holstein to Denmark
with his whole army, with large trains Of
artillery and baggage.
In 1851 provisions and fuel became so
scarce on account of cold in Paris, that q
small bundle OF kindle brush cost forty
cents. the cattle froze in their stalls, and
the Seine could be crossed by heavy
carts
In 1888 one-third OF the population Of
Turenne died OF hunger. The COLI snap
lasted thirteen weeks.
In l6iS forest trees, even the oaks in
in England were split by the frost; the
Thames was covered with ice eleven
inches thick, and nearly all the birds
persisted.
In 1891, the wolves, driven to despera-
ton by the cold, entered Vienna and
attacked the cattle and even men.
1903 was a year of intense cold all over
Europe and mass could not be said for
many weeks in certain provinces, be-
cause the wine could not be kept in a
hud state.
In 1875, in Chinese Tartary, the Their
niometer fell TO 81 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit.
l1iO was winter Of such rigor in Rus,
STA that an ice palace was constructed at
St. Petersburg II feet long and II wide.
SIX ice cannon were mounted on the
walls, and two mOrtlrs for bombs. The
cannon held balls Of SIX pound weight,
we're charged with powder and discharg-
ed, 50 that the bail pierced board two
inches thick, at distance Of sixty feet
The cannon did not burst, although it
walls were less than ten inches in thick
ness.
In 1912 the cold in Russia surpasse,
in intensity that Of any winter In tina
country for many preceding years, anC
was very destructive to the French army
il its retreat from Moscow. Napoleon
commenced his retreat from Moscow OIL
the 9th Of November aud the men per.
Ish-d by battaiions and the horses fell
by hundreds on the roads. What with
the loss in battle and the effects Of thi,
awful and cAlamltous frost, France lost
in the campaign OF this year more than
400 900 men.