The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-20

Frozen to Death-Trades at a Stand
still in England.
PARIS, Jan. 19.-During Saturday and
yesterday the most intease cold OF the win
ter was experienced throughout Franco
Yesterday an aged man was found frozen
to death in his lodging in this city. The
thermometer yesterday touched z Fahren-
heit at Macon, 90 here l2' at Toulon and
S. at Greenable Wells were frozen
at Perpignan, where man was found
frozen to death In the street. A woman
was found frozen in bed at Epinal, whore
the thermometer indicates 4 below zero. A
slight fall OF snow is reported Efrom the
Riviera.
GOVERNMENT AID.
The Chamber of Deputies has voted that
100000 francs be appropriated for the re-
lief OF the people in towns who are suffering
from the effects Of the severe winter. Ii is the
intention Of the chamber later on to appro-
pirate money for the relief Of the sufferers
Ia the country districts.
VESSELS DAMAGED BY ICE.
BERLIN, Jan. 19.-Ssveral steamers In
the ice-blockaded river Elbe have lost their
propellers by dashing against the ice floea.
A number OF vessels in the
Elbe have parted their anchor chains
and are drifting hopelessly in the stream.
The strongest tugs cannot leave the hArbor
OF Cuxhaven on account Of the ice, and the
citizens are assisting the military to blast
the ice with melinite. Reports from all
parts Of Germany show that the therinome.
ter touched many degrees below zero Fab
renhett, but the cold is bearable In the ALB
sence of wind. The ice is eighteen
inches thick. The sea between
Stratsund and Rugen. five miles
in width. is alive with skates and sleighs.
Ponds are frozen to the bottom, Twenty
one head of deer in the royal forest at BEN
derath have died and the rest are in mtser-
able condition.
IN HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
In Holland aud Belgium the severity Of
the snowfall has put stop to the railway
and tramway traffic. Thousands of men
are engaged IN clearing the roads. Ga the
coast of Holland the sea Is frozen for great
distance, and there is bank of ice on the
shore Of extreme beauty. Only the harbors
Of Rotterdam aud Flushing are accessible to
vessels.
Advices from Naples report the death OF
two persons from cold. The Italian rivers
are incumbsI ed with ice. The roof Of a
school for boys at San Demitrio gave way
beneath its burden Of snow and ice and the
whole mass went crashing into the school
room below. twenty-five pupils were more
or less seriously injured. On the frontier
near Geneva a man was frozen to death.
J Several vessels have been wrecked in the
bay OF Biscay, and a number of lives lost.
The gales throughout Europe are the most
severe in several years.
THICK ICE ON THE SEINE.
The ice on the Seine is sixteen inches
thick and is thronged with people day and
night.
The cold is causing great Inconvenience
and distress throughout France.
The harbors of Toulon and Lazyne are
frozen over for the first time on record.
The olive crop In the department Of Gard
is fast being ruined.
Whole committees in the neighborhood of
Perpignan In the Pyrenees are cut of from
communication with the rest of the world,
and wayfarers In those districts have been
found frozen TO death.
Algiers. mail steamer arrived at port
Vsndres, on the Mediterranean to-day
covered from stem Ia stern with ice and
snow like a ship in the Arctic regions.
sHIvERINa AT sARAGossA.
A dispatch from SaragoSsa. in Spain, re-
ports that the mercury there is at IA
Fahrenheit and that snow Is falling.
The Seine at its confluence with the Oise
is iammed with pack ice ten feet high.
At Mines wines has frozen In cellars.
The Loire at Movers is frozen over.
A large number Of vessels are ice-bound
at Bordeaux and MANY steamers, to avoid
being frozen in, have goneedown. the river TO
anchor in Verdon roads.
Packs of wolves aud wild boars are in
vading isolated districts in France. The
unusua ly large fall Of snow and the ter
rible severity of the weather have cut Off
their means of subsistence and tho animals
have become desperate through hunger and
fearlessly prowl about houses to the great
CONSERVATION Of the psople
The same state Of affairs ID said to exist
in Spain, and from Cadiz comes report of
wolves being killed in the streets and sub
urbs.
Advices have been received from Algiers
to the effect that the country is covered
with snow.
A snow storm is raging at Tunis. and tho
fall of snow is already SO heavy that traffic
has been stopped.
ICE IN THE THAMES.
LONDON, Jan. 19-Owing to ice in the
Thames there is much delay in loading and
unloading vessels. Tugs are necessary to
move lighters and barges. The severity of
the weather in Great Britain is increasing.
There Is much suffering among the poorer
classes, and from various secJions OF the
country come accounts of cattle and, in
several instances Of human beings frozen to
death.
TRADES AT A sTAEDsTILL.
Several trades are at a standstill, owing
to the cold weather.
A lady was found in railway carriage
frozen to death at one of the London sta
tiols to-day.
Heavy ice has blocked the docks at New
port, Monmouthshire, and it Is impossible
for vessels TO either enter or leave the
docIk A number OF loaded vessels await
the breaking of the ice before they can sail.
ICE IN THE BALTIC.
HAMBURG, Jan. ia dispatch from
Kiel says that the Baltic sea, so far as it
can be seen from Buelk lighthouse, is Gov
cred with ice. The channel separating the
island of Fermark from the Holstein shore
is frozen over. 1ne Lake of Constance is
covered with ice, and navigation upon il
has been suspended.
AUSTRIAN ROADS BLOCKED.
VIENNA, Jan. 19.--Nearly all the roads
and railroads throughout Austria are more
or less blocked with snow, causing consider
able delay in passenger and freight traffic
everywhere. The mails are also much de-
layed In addition number Of country
towns are completely isolated. and are
likely TO remain 30 for some time to come.
These towns are suffering from their ina
bility to renew their stocks Of coal and pro-
visions, which are, in many cases, ex-
bausted.
Baron Wissnann Insane.