The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-02-18
Designs.

Hollyhcad Railway was yesterday blocked
with snow at Abcr, and the passengers by
the Irish express had to be taken back
again to Bangor. do not know how the
weather may have affected the American
mail, but no papers nor letters have reached
me since the posts that arrived in the mid
die of last week At St. Ives, after fight
ing through tremendous seas and being twice
driven back, n life. boat saved five men from
II French schooner that had struck the rocks.
OH the northeast coast two vessels are known
to have been totally lost with all hands
At Harwich liie,boat going to ship in
distress was cap>zcd. Two coal vessels were
dashed upon the new railway stea mboat
pier at Rydc, causing damage to the extent
| OF 100000. Along some of tho railway
tracks in Wales the snow lies six feet deep.
Even trains from Brighton Gan hour from
London) were obliged to put back. In Scot
land, Inverness and Foriar are without wa
ter, and the frost and snow have stopped
the supply of gas at Kirkcady. The Cal
edonian Canal'is frozen up and in Lcith
Docks the sailors walk to their ships on the
ice in which the vessels are Embedded, Six
ty persons have been Admitted to the Lon
don hospitals within the past twenty -four
hours with broken liHlbs and contusions from
accidents arising out of the weather. The
''circular wind" yesterday, something like
that which swamped the Euridicc, flung
people down in the streets. Whistles were
blown in vain for cabs at the West End
clubs. The Thames, chokcd with floating
ice, rose last night under the influence of a
high tide aud the wind 1t burst In tor
rents upon the low lying DISTRICTS between
xsaf a.,al ysSoxs nl
scenes of misery and distress tkat resulted
from the inundation were heakendug.-
Hundreds Of poor families were struggling in
the snow to recover their "houschold gods"
from the torrent. Many barges were
sunk, one Of them containing valublc car
go of preserved meat. The tel graphic de-
| partmcnt OF the general postofice announc-
cd last evening that communication with
the provinces is almost entirely suspended.
AT Gloucester the roof OF the Great Wcs-
tern Railway depot was carried away by the
wind. At Gravescnd the Customs steam
launch was sunk and the Survey steam dock
tug was wrecked. The new railway pier
was also destroyed. In Dcvcnshiro tho
London mail train was completely showed
up at Bridestow. The trade of Portsmouth
was closed, the snow.drifts in parts most
exposed to the channel winds being from
five to eight feet high. In many largo
cities the tramway cars and omnbuses have
not been running for two days. The steam
ers for Holland and France did not venture
out yesterday. At Wolvcrhampton, a ter
race OF elevated houses had every chimney
stack torn down by the wind, and in each
case they fell through the roof into the bed
chambers The snow continues 20 fall
while write, aud is blown about by the
wind in binding clouds. AD army of Ia.
borcrs is digging passage for such traffic
rs remains around the parks The cold is,
however, nothing like so intense as in Amer,
lea, but it is more trying, probably, because
it is u1accompained by the atmospheric dry.
ness and clear skies which characterize win.
ter weather in the United States.