Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1881-03-01
A Chronicle of Cold Weather.

In the year 3O1, the cold was so in~
tense in Europe, That the Black Sea
was frozen entirely over.
In 401, the Pontan, Sea, and the Sea
between Constantnople and Scutari in
Turkey, were entirely frozen over.
The Danube was frozen over in 462.
80 that whole army crossed on the
ice.
The Black Sea was again frozen over
in 1855. and the snow drifted to the depth
of SO feet.
Carriages crossed the Adriatic Sea, or
Gulf of Venice. in $50, and in $50 the
cold was so intense that cattle frOze to
death in their stalls. The Mediterrane-
an Sea was so thickly frozen over that
it was passable for carriages and horses,
and the merchandise was transported
acrsss it on ice.
1133. This year the river Pc, in TIA.
| ly. was frozen from Cremona to The sea;
wine burst in the casks containing it,
and the trees split with loud report.
1915. The river Pc was frozen to the
depth of sixteen feet.
1884. The Mediterranean was again
frozen over; and a whole pine forest
was killed by the cold.
1882. This year the snow was so deep
| in Austria that the houses were entire
ly buried beneath it, and many persons
persisted.
1892. The Rhine was frozen over,
and the snow is represented as being of
an "enormous depth"
1923. The Baltic Sea was frozen over
80 as to be passable for six weeks.
1874. All the. rivers in Italy were
frozen over.
1349, 1892 and 14O8. The Baltic Sea
was frozen over in each of these years.
1884 The Rhine and the Gulf of
Venice we're frozen over.
1923, 1925, 1855. In each of these
years the travelling from Luhec to
Prussia was performed on the ice.
1920. The sea between Constantine
pie and IskOdar, was passable on the
ice.
1870 The cold was intense through
out Europe.
1851. This year the cold was so Sc
we're as to split whole forest of oak trees.
1890. Scotland this year was visited
with an awful snow-storm, which last
ed thirteen days and nights, during
which time ninetenths of the sheep
were frozen to death, and many shep-
herds lost their lives.
4OOA. WOAtCS CaluC 1uCO V 1cuuo duO
attacked men and women, owing to the
intense cold and hunger.
1929 and 1870. In one of these years
another storm visited Scotland
f in which about twenty thousand sheep
and many shepherds were lost-'by q
single days snow"
1776. This year the Danube was fro
zen over five feet thick below Vienna.
, Scotland was the scene of another ter
r rible snow storm in 1894, which is the
most extraordinary one of which there
is any record. In one single night snow
2 fell to the depth of eight or ten feet, and
in some places the most lofty trees wer'
f entirely covered. By this one night
storm seventeen shepherds lost theil
| lives and thousands of sheep besides
other animals. were destroyed. ON
, farmer lost fourteen hundred sheep
| After the storm had somewhat disaD-
peared. there were found collected to
t gether 10y its violence) in one spot, the
| dead bodies of two men, one woman
forty-five dogs, three horses, nine BLACK
r cattle, one hundred and eighty hares
3 one thousand eight hundred and forty
8 sheep.
The above contains the most remar.
c kable accounts of severe winters in the
} old world and some of them coulC
hardly be believed were they not well
! authenticated by the histories of thu
| times. They contrast strangely with
the weather of recent times there, ane
of the present in the new world
Christian Observer.