Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
SHOWED UP.
England Visited by the Worst
Blizzard for Years.
Trains Snow-Bound in All Directions
Much Suffering Among the
Passengers.
nRIroxs ARE FREEZING.

storm of the season swept over the
United Kingdom Monday, the wind
blowing with fearful velocity, driving
the snow around in drifts 2 or
feet deep. The streets are deserted by
both pedestrians and vehicles, while
railway communication with the
suburbs of London is almost en-
tirely cut off. Telegraphic COM
municatiou with the provinces is
suspended, as the wires are down in all
directions, London papers present an
unusual appearance, being without
word of continental news. From all
parts of England come stories of de-
struction by the storm. Shipping suf-
fered heavily. The English channel is
simply an expanse of boiling, seething
water, the waves dashing over the pier
at Dover and washing everything away.
A terrible blizzard prevails through
out the southwest portion of England.
The storm is the severest on record in
that part of the country. Many small
vessels have been wrecked off the coast.
The loss of live stock is also reported
to be heavy Hundreds of sheep and
lambs have persisted in the storm A
snow-storm has been raging in Scot
land and the north of England for a
week past.
The railroads of Kent and Sussex are
! completely blockaded; the neighboring
country is deep with snow. The hurri-
cane which accompanied the snowstorm
piled snow drifts on all sides, stopping
all traffic upon the railway lines and
upon the country roads. Two trains
| full of passengers in the Midlands were
showed up Monday night, and the
passengers were not rescued until morn
ing. The rescued people suffered terri
bly, from cold during the night, owing
to the unheated condition of the cars. A
train { the Moth Kent railroad bound
/ for this city. was showed up Monday
night and still remains in 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 blockaded
train from the cutting. The Sheer
ness mail car cannot be found.
1t has been lost somewhere along the
line of railroad between this city and
Sheerness. A search party sent out
after the missing car rescued the en-
gineer of the lost engine. He was
found half frozen in snow drift. Two
clergymen were showed up in car
riage on the Favorshaw road Monday
night and were rescued with difficulty
after having suffered terribly.
| Reports from the provinces show
that the blizzard prevailed from st.
Georges channel to the North sea One
of the effects of the severe storm has
been the stoppage of the South Wales
iron works. All road traffic is stopped
and the trains there are de
| layed In SomersetShire Dorset
shire, Hampshire and Gloucester
shire, there are snow drifts 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 flocks with
which their farms are stocked
Taken altogether, the storB has NOS
been equaled in severity for a decade.
not excepting the terrible weather ex-
perienced during the latter part IF 1890.
Another instance of a snow blocked
train is upon a road familiar to Ameri-
cans who cross the channel from the con-
tinent. The train which left the
Charing Cross station at umidniglt for
Folkestone was caught in a hinge snow
drift outside Of Folkestone. The pas
sengers were not rescued until o'clock
when many of them were half frozen.
In addition to the damage done by
the storm itself the Thames has COM
menceJ to rise in dangerous manner,
and already mandates the low lying
districts bordering on that river from
Richmond down. The green grocers
of this city and elsewhere
are naturally suffering from a
dearth of vegetables. etc. All the wag-
ons coming from the country and
bound in the case OF London, for Co
vent Garden market, have been showed
up along the roads leading into the
metropolis, and a scarceness and rise
in price of szlch provisions may be
looked for during the next day or so.
The towns in the Channel islands
have also been cut off by the snow from
all communication with each other At
Lydd, small seaport town of Kent,
while the coast guard lifeboat was going
to the rescue of the crew of an endan-
gered vessel, the lifeboat capsized and
several of its gallant occupants were
drowned. Near Hastings five fishing
smacks have been wrecked Three
fishermen were drowned.
LONDON, March 11.-During the
month of Decem Der last the sun did not
shine here one day. During the entire
year of 1890. out of a possible 4,45O
hours when the sun should or might
have been visible, it was visible only
1902 hours, and these were mainly in
the afternoons
LONDON. March 1I.-Information has
reached Kharkov that the town of
Taganrog, on the Sea Of Azov. has been