Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-11
BLEW GREAT GUNS.
AND SHOWED AS IT NEVER SHOWED BEFORE
IN ENGLAND.
The Eight Little Isle" Gets a Taste Of The Biz
urds Breath-nany Lives Lost and Rail-
way Traffic in Soms Sectors Entirely
Suspsndsd-Rshtrmen Suffer.

LONDON, March l0.-f0r a week past
violent snow storm has prevailed boo
Scotland and in the northern counties
OF England, while in the south Of Eng
land the weather has been pleasant.
even balmy up to Sunday.
The gale Of yesterday. which was to-
tally unexpected, Travelled I'm a north
eaSlerly direction across the Bay Of Bis
cay. The blizzard. which now RACES all
over southern England, made its appear
ance in London at o'clock yesterday
afternoon
Last night the storm ragged urlouslv
and steadily in violence, while there was
an unusual rise in the tide. The chan
mel steamers were badly bufeted about
in crossing. Tho water was 80 rough
In the harbOrS that il was with great
difficulty vessels were held 20 their
moorings. At Dover the mail boat
nearly sank in the harbor, while one of
her paddle boxes WAS completely smash
ed. Mail service steamers are unable tu
make the passage OF the channel The
sea makes clean breach over the Ad-
miralty pier, where the telegraph clerk
and the signal man are prisoners.
Two trains full Of passengers in The
MidlandS were showed mp last night and
the passengers were not rescued until
this morning. The people suffered ter
rioly from the cold during the night
train on the Kent railroad wa, showed
up last night and still remains ln ihr
railroad cut whore 10 was stopped hy q
drift. Number or engines have been
sent to the scene, but they have been
unable as yet 10 move the train. The
Sheerness mail car cannot be found. o.
has been lost somewhere along the line
OF railroad between this city and Sncor
ness a search party sent out after th.
car rescued the engineer Of the lost cu-
CINE. He was found half frozen in ID
snow drift.
Another instance OF a Snow-hlockod
train is upon a road familiar 20 Ameri-
cans who cross the Channel 90 and from
the Continent. \ passenger train
which left Charring Cross Railroad sta
tion at midnight for Folkcstone. Wa
caught in snow storm outside of
FolkeStone. The passengers were not
rescued until 3 o'clock this morning.
when many OF them were seriously l
owing to the fact that they had been a
half frozen condition.
Taken altogether the storm has hrrn
unequaled in severity for decade mot
excepting the terrible weather cNpcr.
enced during the latter part Of 1890.
In South Deyonshire the storm con-
tinueS Us violence. "a, this dispatch
sent, 2:3O p. m. The railroads arc
blocked and the mail train bound from
Southampton for Eudon. j, showed un
at some unknown spot The towns 90
the channel ISLANDS have also been
cut of from all communication with
each other. At Lydd. "a small seaport town
.Of Kent, while the coast guard 'fe h0sf
was going to the rescue Of an cudangor
ed vessel, the life boat capsiled and
several Of it, gallant occupants Wcr
drowned
Near Hastings. SUSSEX, another die
aStcr has been caused hy the blizzard
Five fishing ,macks have been wrecked
thus dcpriyins large number of poor
iiShermen'S families Of their only
means Of earning living. While thc
fishing boats We're being wrecked three
fishermen were drowned. The othcr-
barely escaped with their lives.