St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-11
The South of England Visited
by a Most Disastrous
Blizzard.
Railway Trains Bloekaded for
Hours and Inmates Nearly
Frozen.
Reports From the Provinces
Indicate the Loss Of Sew
eral Lives.
Londoners Suffer for the
Want Of Vegetables and
Other Provisions.

LoNnoN, March 10.-The blizzard i'll
the south of England continues, though
the weather in London is milder. The
railroads of Kent and Sussex are COM
pletely blocked, and the neighboring
country is deep with snow. The hurri-
cane which accompanied the snow storm
piled snow drifts on all sides, stopping
all traffic on the railway lines and upon
the country roads. Two trains full of
passengers 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 I'M
heated condition of the cars. A train
on the North Kent railroad, bound for
this city.was showed up last night and
still remains i'll the railroad cutting
where it was stopped by a drift.
a number of engines have been sent to
the scene, but they have been unable
as yet to move the blocked train from
the cutting. The SheernesS mail car
cannot be found. 1t has been lost some
where along the line of railroad between
this city and SheerneSS.
A Search Party
sent out after the missing mail car res
cued the engineer OF the lost engine.
He was found half-froZen in snow
drift. Two clergymen were showed up
III a carriage on the Faversham road
last night, and were rescued with diff
1iculty after having suffered severely.
Reports from the provinces show that
the blizzard prevailed from the st.
Georges channel to the North sea. One
of the effects of the severe storm has
been the Stoppage Of the Southwestern
Iron works. All road traffic is stopped
and the trains there are delayed.
In SOmersetshire, Dorsetshire. Hamp-
shire and Worcestershire, there are
snoWdrifts everywhere. many feet deep.
rendering field work impossible. In
these counties the mail service has been
completely stopped, and the farmers
suffer immense loss among the cattle
and sheep fiOckS with which their farms
are stocked. Taken altogether, the
storm has been unequaled for decade,
not excepting the terrible weather eX
perienced during the latter part of 1890.
Another instance of a OwblOckaded
tram is upon a road famllier to Ameri-
cads who cross the channel to and from
the continent. a passenger train
which left Charing Cross Railroad sta
ton at midnight for FolkestOne, was
caught in
4 Huge Snow Drift
outside of FolkestOne. The passengers
were not rescued until S o'clock this
morning, when many of them were
seriously i'll OWING to the fact that they
had been in half frozen condition.
From period very soon after the hour
when they run into the snow, the
passengers had neither food nor light
from the time when they were impri-
Soned in the SnOW-bOund cars. On the
London, Chatham Il Dover railroad, the
trains were delayed for hours. Maid
stone, SheernesS and Sittingbourne
have been cut off from communication
with the country surrounding them.
IN addition to the damage done by
the storm itself. the Thames has
commenced to rise in a dangerously
rapid manner, and already mandates
the low lying districts bordering
on the river from Richmond down.
The green grOceIs of this city and else
where are naturally suffering from
dtarth of vegetables, etc. All the
wagons coming in from the country, and
bound, in the case Of London, for COyent
Garden market, have been showed up
along the roads leading into the metrop-
OILS, and scarcereSs and rise in prices
of such provisions may be looked for
during the next day or so. Work about
The Various Books
iii and about London has been partially
suspended owing to the mass of snow
accumulated about the docks and hips.
At one period of the storm it was said
that The mail boat plying between Dover
and Calais, and on her way to the latter
point through the storm, had foundered.