Los Angeles herald., 1891-03-11
The Great Blizzard in the
South of England.
Railway Trains Snowbound and
Traffic Suspended.
Many People Frost Bitten and Some
Frozen to Death.
Russia Looking ON Scandinavia With a
Covetous.. Eye-Persecution OF the
Jews Continued.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
LONDON, March 10.-The blizzard in
the south of England continues, though
the weather in London is milder. The
railroads of Kent and Sussex are COM
pletely blockaded; the neighboring
country is covered deeply with snow
The hurricane, which accompanied the
SNOW storm, piled snowdrifts on all
sides, stopping all traffic on the railway
lines and upon the country roads. Two
trains full OF passengers in the midlands
were showed up last night, and the pas
sengers not rescued until this morning.
The rescued people suffered terribly
from cold during the night, owing to the
unheated condition of the cars. A train
on the North Kent railroad, bound for
this city, was showed up last night and
still remains in the railroad cutting
where it was stopped by drift. A
number of engines have been sent to the
scene but are unable yet to move the
train. The Sheerness mail car cannot
be found. 1t is lost somewhere along
the line between this city and Sheer
ness. A party sent out after the mail
car rescued an engineer lost from his en-
gine. He was found half frozen in a
snOwdrift. Two clergymen were showed
up in carriage on the Faversham road
last night. and were rescued with diff
Guilty after having suffered severely.
Reports from the provinces show that
the blizzard prevailed from St. George g
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 trains there are delayed.
In Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, Hamp-
shire and Worcestershire there are
snOwdrifts everywhere many feet deep,
rendering field work impossible. In
these counties the mail service is COM
pletely stopped and the farmers suffer
immense loss of cattle and sheep.
There is another instance of snow
blocked train upon road familiar to
Americans who cross the channel to
and from the continent. A passenger
train which left Charing Cross railroad
Station at midnight for Folkestone was
caught in a huge snowdrift outside
Folkestone. The passengers were not
rescued until 8 O'Clock this morning,
when many of them were seriously i'll,
owing to their almost frozen state. The
passengers had neither food nor light
from the time they were imprisoned in
the snowbound cars. On the London,
Chatham and Dover railway trains were
delayed for hours. Maidstone, Sheer
ness and Sittingbourne are cut off from
communication with the surrounding
country.
In addition to the damage done by
the storm itself, the Thames COM
menced to rise in a dangerously rapid
manner, and already mandates the
lowlying districts bordering the river,
from Richmond down. The green gro
GERS of this city and elsewhere are natu-
rally suffering from dearth of vegeta-
bles, etc. All the wagons coming in
from the country are showed up along
the road, and scarceness and raise in
price in such provisions, may be looked
for during the next day or so. Work on
the docks in and about London is par
TALLY suspended owing to the mass OF
snow accumulated about them.
In South Devonshire, the snowstorm
continues in violence. The railroads
are blocked and mail train bound from
Southampton for London is showed up.
The towns on the channel islands are
cut off by snow from all communication
with each other.
At Lynn, a small seaport town of
Kent, while the coastguard life boat was
going to the rescue of the crew OF an
endangered vessel, the lifeboat capsized
and several of it's occupants were
drowned. Near Hastings, Sussex
county, five fishing smacks were
wrecked and three fishermen drowned.
Others barely escaped.
At one period of the storm it was said
a mail boat plying between Dover and
Calais, on her way to the latter port,
fOundered. The report turned out to be
incorrect, the mail boat having reached
Calais in safety, but in terribly batter
ed condition.
In addition to the blockaded trains
already referred to-, several are showed
in, at different places along various
roads. In all cases the passengers have
suffered severely. Several are reported
as missing, and are believed to have
found death in the snowdrifts while en-
deavoring to reach places of shelter.
This afternoon only meagre kilograms
were received from various parts OF
England and Wales. The railway lines,
according to these dispatches, are gen.
orally blocked.
A dispatch from Harwich brings in
formation that the yacht Sapphire,
owned by Mr.. MacLarr, OF Glasgow,
was driven ashore there during the gale.
MacLarr was washed overheard and
drowned.
Information was received from Cardiff
this afternoon, to the effect that much
damage has been done by the storm
there. Added to the list of lives lost, is
that OF a man found frozen to death in
Surrey.
RAPACIOUS RUSSIA.
The Absorption of Scandinavia Expected.