The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-01-15
A HARD WINTER IN EUROPE.
Great Suffering Reported from Almost
Every Country on the Continent Man;
Perish from Cold and Hunger.

Great Suffering Reported from Almost
! Every Country on the Continent MAN.
Perish from Cold and Hunger.
j LONDON. Jan. 10. = 1t is now the
seventh week of the prevalence of frost
throughout the United Kingdom, with
NJ signs of abatement Of the severity
of the weather. From john OGroat's s
/ house to Lands End the country
| Is wrapped in snow. and canals
| and streets are icr-bound. Even a
number of tidal rivers are frozen
| fast. For duration of the frost period
| this is the greatest winter of the
century. and in point of severity the
winters If 1913 and 1914 alone exceed
| it. The Thames below Richmond re-
mains partially frozen and is covered
with ice foes which are impeding navi-
/ CATION. Above Tediington the ice
on the Thames is eight inches
| thick. Carriers vans can ira
verse the rivers frozen sur
face from Sutton Court to Alb
| ingtnn Skaters have Il fra. stretch for
| Numerous deaths have resulted from
| the extreme cold. several of them at the
very gates of warehouses;, where
| groups oi poor people We're waiting for
| shelter. Midland newspapers de-
clare that thousands Of persons
| are in Il condition of scmi-starva-
tion. many laborers being compul>orily
/ idle. without fires or food. Mayors of
! cities with the aid of loca boards are
directing an organized distribution Of
bread and coal and are starting relief
kitchens. still they fail to reach host
of cases of distress. Numerous in
stances occur of coroncrs' inqucsts on
the bodies of people found dead in bed
where the verdict is that death resulted
from cold and hunger.
In every country ON the continent
there is suffering because of the severe
weather. The coasts of Belgium, llol-
land and North Germany are Blocked
! with ice. In tie Scheldt river nayiga-
tion is nearly at stanastill on account
of the ice. At the North German port
of Cuxhayen twenty-nine steam
ships are ice-bound. Pilots there
are unable to communicate with
vessels on account of the ice foes.
thus making the harbor inaccessible.
Several vessels were struck by i'm
lnense masses of the floating ice and
their hulls were 80 badly damaged that
the boats rapidly filed with water and
soon went to the bottom. In every in
stance their crews were saved from
death only with great difficulty.
At Hamburg navigation is greatly inn
oil l,xY of
which fill the river. The board of nav
igation is making every effort to keep
the river open and is employing three
of the strongest tugs that could be Sc
cured as ice-brcakers..
At Antwerp 10000 workinen have
been thrown out of employment owing
to the unusually severe weather. The
misery caused among the poorer classes
in consequence is widespread and in
| tense.
Dispatches from the German ports oi
Lubbock. stettin and Winemunde all
tell of the inaccessibility of their har
bors on account Of the ice, aud say that
navigation has ceased. that there il
mach snow and that no open water il
visible. In Berlin the temperature il
at l6 degrees below zero. Fahrenheit
The liarz railway is snow-blocked. anC
the mails usually conveyed by its 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 inch.
rs deep. In certain localities along tn.
Rhine snow-drifts are piled seventeen
feet high, threatening inundations whel
they thaw.
In Northern Italy snow began to fal
on Wednesday and did not cease until
Friday. The inhabitants Of that region
are suffering acutely. such weather
being entirely unknown to them, and il
is feared that numbers of people have
peri>hed in the storm.
\ telegram from Madrid reports heav,
snow-fall> in Spain and says communi
cation with all the provinces of Spain
is difficult 1t also reports the preva
'cncc of intensely cold weather il
Valencia. where orange groves hav,
been swept by the storm, entailins
heavy losses to the owners.
At Marseilles the hospitals are gorged
with sufferers from various affections
caused by the cold weather Dock Ia
borers there have lighted along the
quay> great fires at which to warn
themselves during working hours. TIVE
express trains bound for Trieste are
showed up, and it is not known
whether relief has been sent to ths
passengers. At klagenfurth. in Aus
tria. freight train has beer
buried out of sight by an avalanche
The bora wind continues to blow
ut Trieste the wheels of the locomo
tives freeze to the rails. and the popu
lation of the city is helpless SO far a,
getting supplies is concerned. No re
ports have been received from Alpin,
districts for two days. There are fear
of a sudden thaw, which will flood tn,
rivers.
\ violent storm, accompanied by hal
and snow and cXtendinga long distanc,
inland. is reported from the scapor
If Algiers. in North Africa. tn,
report is coupled with the assur
ance that nothing like such
severity of weather was ever knout
in that region before. Advices fron
Paris say that the Seine is blocke,
with ice near Rouen and that the Rhon
is frozen above Lyons. kilograms froi'
Arras and Mines say that much suffer
ing is being caused at these places l.,
The intensely cold weather and that
number of persons have been foun,
irozen to death.
THROUGH THE ICE.
TWO brothers browne 1 at Gassyiile, Wis