Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-01-16

nail al hOut' I1e IL Uauiy CUT dUouG CIe
burned. Alex. Terrace has a badly
sprained back and is burned. Charles
Lindquist had his face and head badly cut
and body bruised. Louis Liberty had his
feet burned badly by hot iron. Claude W.
Case, secretary and manager, was CARRIED
down under the falling roof and miracu-
lousy escaped with a few scalp wounds.
Frost-Bound England.
LONDON, Eng, Jan. 9.-lt is nov the
seventh week of the prevalence of frost
throughout the United Kingdom, with no
signs of abatement of the severity of the
weather. From John O'Grout's house to
Land End the country is wrapped in snow
and the canals and streams are ice bound.
Even a number of tidal rivers are frozen
fast. For the duration of the frost period
this is the greatest winter of the century,
and in point of severity the winters Of 1913
and 1914 alone exceeded it, The Thames
below Richmond remains partially frozen
and it is covered with ice foes which are
impeding navigation. Above Teddington
the ice on the Thames is eight inches
thick. Carriers vans can raverse the
rivers frOZeu surface from Sutton-Court to
Abingdon. Skaters have a free stretch for
many miles above and below Oxford. MI
merous deaths have resulted from the ex-
IRENE cold and several of them at the very
gates of the warehouses where groups Of
the poor people were waiting for shelter.
Midland newspapers declare that
thousands OF persons in that
CnTinn ORC in nnnIiYinI Of
Semi-starvation. many labOrerers
being compulsorily idle, without fires or
food. The mayors of the cities, with the
aid of local boards, are directing an organ-
lied distribution of bread and coal
and are starting relief kitchens, still they
fail to reach the host Of cases of distress.
Numerous instances occur of %coroners' in
quests on the bodies of people found dead
in bed, where the verdict is that death re.
suited from cold and hunger. In every
country on the continent there is suffering
because OF the severe weather. The coasts
of Belgium, Holland and North Germany
are checked with ice. In the Scheldt river
navigation is nearly at a standstill Oh ac-
count Of ice. At the North German port
of C~uxhaven. twinty-nine steamships are
icebound Pilots there are unable to com
municate with the vessels on account of
ice fOeS, thus making the harbOr inacceSSi-
BILE. Several vessels were struck by i'm
mense masses OF floating ice, and their
hulls were so badly damaged that the boats
rapidly filled with water and soon went to
the bottom. In every instance the crews
were saved from death only with great
difficulty. A number of steamers are
drifting helplessly between OttendOrf and
BrunSbutte. They have lost their anchors
and have been considerably damaged by
floating Ice. At Hamburg navigation is
greatly impeded by immense blocks of ice
o %h' Gavia dif the is ri mai,ns The fRerv e e3fn1i
to keep the river open and
are employing three of the strongest tugs
that could be secured as ice breakers.
Many vessels have also been damaged
here by the ice, but no serious accidents
have as yet been reported. At Antwerp
10000 Workmea have been thrown out of
employment, owing to the unusually Sc.
we're weather which is prevailing at pres
ent. The misery caused among the poorer
classes in consequence is wide spread and
intense. The use of dynamite is about to
be tried to break the ice at Copenhagen,
where several steamships lie ice-bound.
At many ports tugs are actively engaged
III efforts to break the ice, but without
ports OF Lubbock, Stcttin and Swinemulde,
all tell OF the inaccessibility of their har-
bors on account of ice, and say navigation
has ceased, that there is much snow and
that no open water is visible. In Berlin
the temperature is at sixteen degrees
Fahrenheit. The horse railway is snow
D!t c Sed, and tie mails usually conveyed by
It's trains are now transported in sleighS.
All Bavaria is covered with snow, and in
the country between the Danube and the
Alps, the snow is eighteen inches deep.
IN certain localities along the Rhine, snow
drifts are piled in some spots seventeen
feet high, threatening Intimidation when
they thaw. In northern Italy SLOW
began to fall OH Wednesday, and
did not cease until to-day. inhabitants Of
that region are suffering a%cutely, such
weather being. entirely unknown to them,
and 1t Is feared that a number of people
have persisted in the storm. At Mantua,
Turin and Milan railway trains are much
delayed on account of the heavy snowfall.
A dispatch from Vienna says that commu-
nlcation with points south of that city is
greatly lmpeded and that on all railways
centering there the movements Of trains is
partially suspended. A telegram from
Madrid reports heavy snow falls in Spain
and says that communication with all the
provinces OF Spain is difficult. 1t also re-
ports the prevalence OF intensely cold
weather in Valencia, where, orange groves
have been swept by storms, entailing
heavy losses to the owners. At Mar
settles the hospitals are gOrged with suffer-
ers from the various affections caused by
the cold weather. More snow has fallen
to-day. IN Marseilles. The cold extends
down into Northern Africa.