Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-01-21
THE SEA FROZEN.
BY the Cold Weather Now Pre-
vailing in Europe.
The Baltic Covered With Ice Many
Miles from Shore.
No Water Visible from the Top
of a Lighthouse.
THE HARBORS AT TOULON AND
ELSEWHERE CLOSED.
VILLAGES ISOLATED, WITH sCANT
FUEL AND ROOD.
THE HARBORS AT TOULON AMI
ELSEWHERE CLOSED.
VILLAGES ISOLATED, WITH sCAN1
FUEL AND ROOD.


Navigation Suspended on the Lake Of
Constance-NearIy All the Railroads of
Austria Blockaded with SnOw-Trains
Freeze to the RaiIs-The Olive Crop in
Southern France Being Ruined-Ice-
Clad Vessels Flowing the Mediter-
ranean--wolves and wild Bears Invad-
ing Isolated Districts in France--Heavy
FAN of Snow in the Northern Part of
Africa Many People Perish in All
Parts of the Continent-Growing Colder
in Great Britain.
LONDON, Jan. PA dispatch from
Kiel says that the Baltic sea, so far as it
can be seen from Buelk lighthouse is
covered with ice The channel separat-
ing the island of Fehmarn from the
Holstein shore is frozen over. The Lake
of Constance is so covered with ice that
navigation upon it has been suspended.
At Geneva the cold has been so great
that thick ice extends for two hundred
yards beyond the quays into the lake.
Nearly all the roads and railroads
throughout Austria are more or less
blocked with snow, causing considerable
delay in passenger and freight traffic
everywhere The mails are also much
delayed In addition, a number Of
country towns are completely isolated
and are likely to remain so for some
time to come These towns are suffer
ing from their inability to renew their
stocks of coal and provisions, which are
in many cases exhausted.
AT Gratz there was an extraordinary
example of the extremely cold weather
prevailing, While the frozen boiler
tubes of locomotive were being thawed
by burning torches beneath them the
wheels of the locomotive froze fast to
the rails, and hours passed before the
locomotive was moved from the spot.
The severity of the weather recently
experienced in Great Britain is increas-
ing. There is much suffering among the
poorer classes. and from various sections
of the country come accounts of many
cattle. in several instances human be-
ings. frozen 10 death. Several trades
are at Il standstill, owing to the cold
weather A lady was found frozen to
death in railroad carriage at one Of the
stations in this city
Dispatches from all parts Of France,
telling of great inconvenience and suf-
fering caused by the intense cold
weather, are continually being received
here. The harbors of Toulon and
Laseyne are frozen over for the first
time on record. The olive crop in the
the. department of Gard is fast being
ruined. Whole communcs in the neigh
horhood OF Pcrpignan, in the Pyrenees,
are cut off from communication with
the rest of the world and wayfarers in
those districts, who had set out for
mountain villages, have been found
frozen to death.
The Algiers mail steamer arrived at
Port Vendres, ON the Mediterranean
sea, Monday, covered from stem to
stern with ice and snow, like a ship in
the Arctic regions
A dispatch from Saragossa, in Spain,
reports that the mercury there is at "A
Fahrenheit, and that snow is falling
The Seine and its confluence with the
Oise is iammed with pack ice ten feet
high.
At Mines wine has frozen in the eel
lars,
The Loire at Ncyers is frozen over. A
large number Of vessels are iee-bound at
Bordeaux, and many steamers, to avoid
being froz,n iii, have gone down the
river to anchor in the Verdon roads.
Packs of wolves and numerous wild
boars are invading isolated districts il
France. The unusually large fall OF
snow and the terrible severity Of the
weather have cut off their means Of sub
| gistence. and the animals have become
desperate through hunger, and fearlessly
prowl about the houses, to the great con
sternation to the people.
The same state of affairs is said TO ex
ist in Spai4 and from Cadiz come re
ports Of woves being killed in the street'
of the suburbs.
Advices nave been received from Al
giers to the effect that the country
is covered with snow. A snow storm i
raging in Tunis, and the fall Of snow i
already 10 heavy that traffic has beer
stopped.
The Thermometer Sunday touched
degrees Fahrenheit at Macon. - degree
at Toulouse and . ut Grenoble Well
are frozen at Perpignan, where q mai
has been found frozen to death in tn
street,
In Paris Monday night the muncipa
authorities lighted hundreds of fires il
the streets of the city, and numbers o
wretchedly poor persons crowded arounO
them. and in the warmth afforded b,
the blaze endeavored to obtain some re
lief from the intense cold which pre-
vailed
Every effort is being made 10 reliev
the great distress which exists an,
to this end the Palais des Beaux Art
has been converted into q night shelie
for the homeless, and is provided with
soup kitchen and large number G
straw mattresses. The machine CALLER
in the exhibition buildings Is used rs
day shelter Municipal buildings eis(
where in the city are also used Tor