Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-11

Occupants of Life Boat Near Bent
 Drovvned-Ra1lroads Blocked-Tel-
 egraphfc Communications Inter-
 rupted.
 LONDON, March 10.-Throughout Great Britain telegraphic communication is in- terrupted by the blizzard. At Lydd, a small seaport town of Kent, while the coast guard life boat was going to the res cue of the crew of an endangered vessel, the life boat capsized and several of it's occupants were drowned.
 Near Hastings, Sussex county, five fish ing smacks have been wrecked and three fishermen were drowned. The mail boat plying between Dover and Calais reached Calais in a terribly battered condition af- ter being eighteen hours adrift in the channel. Her lady passengers were half dead from seasickness and fear.
 In addition to the trains already refer red to as showed up, several were blocked in the snow at different places along the various lines of railroad. In all cases the passengers have suffered acutely, and sev- eral persons are reported as missing and are believed to have found death in the snowdrifts. This afternoon only meagre telegrams have been received from various parts of England and Wales. The lines, according to these dispatches are generally blocked
 A dispatch from Sheerness received this afternoon says that the passengers bound for London from the Continent have been forced to stop at Sheerness, the trains be- ing unable to proceed any further on ac- count of snow which blocks the lines. Traffic on the Great Western railway is completely blocked and the trains on that road which were caught out in the storm are showed up at different points.
 Il, ..al. Al- formation that the yacht Sapphire, owned driven ashore there during the gale. Mir Mac Larr, the dispatch adds, was washed overheard and drowned.
 Information received from Cardiff this afternoon is to the effect that the storm rages in that neighborhood with unabated force and severity. Added to the list of lives already known to have been lost is that of man who has been found frozen to death near Dorking, in Surrey. The railroads of Kent and Sussex are completely blockaded and the neighboring country is deep with snow: The hurricane piled snow drifts on all sides, stopping all traffic on the railway lines and upon the country roads. Two trains full of passen- gers in the midlands were showed up last night and the passengers were not rescued until this morning. The rescued people | suffered terribly from cold during the night, owing to the unheated condition of the cars. A train on the North Kent railroad, bound for this city, was showed up last night and still re- mains in the railroad cutting. A number of engines have been sent to the scene. The Sheerness mail car cannot be found. It has been lost somewhere along the line of railroad between this city and Sheer ness. A search party, sent out after the missing mail car, rescued the engineer of the lost engine. He was half frozen in g snow drift. Two clergymen were showed up in carriage on the Faversham road last night, and were rescued with diff culty after having suffered severely.
 Reports from the provinces show that the blizzard prevailed from the St Georges channel to the North Sea. On, of the effects of the severe storm has beer the stoppage of the South Wales iron
 works. All road traffic is stopped and tn, l trains there are delayed