The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-01-23
THE BALTIC SEA FROZEN OVER.
No Water Visible from the Top OF the
Light. house.

THE BALTIC SEA FROZEN OVER.
No Water Visible from the Top of the
Lighthouse
LONDON, Jan. 20-A dispatch from
Kiel saws 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
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, 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 to death. Several trades
are at a 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, a~e continually being received
here. The harbors of Toulon and
I,aseyne are frozen over for the first
time on record. The olive crop in the
the depar ,ment of Gard is fast being
ruined. Whole communes in the neigh
borhood of Perpignan, in the Pyrenees,
are cut off from communication with
the rest of the world, and wayf rers 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 IA
Fahrenheit, and that snow is falling.
The Seine and its confluence with the
Disc is janmed with pack ice ten feet
high.
At Mines wine has frozen in the Gel
lars.
The Loire at Nevers is frozen over. A
large number of vessels are ice-bound at
Bordeaux, and many steamers, to avoid
being frozen in, have gone down the
river to anchor in the Verdon roads.
Packs of wolves and numerous wild
, boars are invading isolated districts in
France. The unusually large fall OF
: weather have cut off their means of sub
r sistence, and the animals have become
r desperate through hunger, and fearlessly
: ,jrowl about the houses, to the great CON
l sternation to the people.
The same state of affairs is said to ex
ist in Spain, and from Cadiz come re
= ports of wolves being killed inthe streets
of the suburbs.
L L. Cd
i giers to the effect that the country
i is covered with snow. A snow storm i
y raging in Tunis, and the fall of snow i
r already 30 heavy that traffic has beel
! stopped.
3 The thermometer Sunday touched
s degrees Fahrenheit at Macon, ~ degree
e at Toulouse and at Grenoble. Well
= are frozen at Perpignan, where nal
|, has been found frozen to death in tn
street.
), In Paris Monday night the municipa
l. authorities lighted hundreds of fires i
the streets of the CITY,. and numbers Q
4 wretchedly poor persons crowded aroun
= them, and in the warmth afforded b
If the blaze endeavored to obtain some n
a lief from the intense cold which pre-
# vailed.
% Every effort is being made to rehev
Y the great distress which exists an
y to this end the Palais des Beaux Art
J. has been converted into a night shelte
3 for the homeless, and is provided with
il soup kitchen and a large number {
straw mattresses. The machine CALLER
: in the exhibition buildings is used as
day shelter Municipal buildings els
l. where in the city are also used for
5 similar purpose, and the protection
5 which they afford is eagerly taken ad
p vantage of by large number of suffer
> ing people.
a The water supply in Versailles has be
come very scarce, owing to the freezin;
~ weather, and vendors of water are meet
d ing with a brisk demand at four pence
gallon.
An epidemic of a disease resembling
e influenza has broken out in Berlin. TIL
If persons affected have tendency towarr
J. Inflammation of the bowels.
4. Reports from all parts of German.
$ show that the thermometer TOUCHES
;. many degrees below zero Fahrenheit
but that the cold is bearable in the at
sence of wind.
'r a MAIL CARRIERS FATE.
d Murdered in the Mountains of KentuclS
g. and the Mail Stolen.
CATLETTsBURG, KY. Jan. 20.-New
- was received here of the murder an
re robbery of the mail-carrier betwee
At Whitesburg, Ky, and Big Stone Gal
lie Va The carrier had been missing sine
the recent heavy snow III that region
"a but was not discovered until Thursday