The morning call., 1891-01-10
INTENSE SUFFERING.
Continuance Of Frisid Weather
in Europe.
Poor People Frozen to Death at the Gates
Of English Warehouses.
The Thames, Ebe, Seine, SaOne and Other
Rivers Filled With ICe-Shipping
Seriously InteTfered With.
Epecial to THE MORNING CALL.

LONDON, Jan. 9.-There are no signs of
throughout Great Britain and on the Cont
nent From all points come stories of suf-
fering. In Great Britain the severity of the
season has not been exceeded sincs 1918.
The river Thames below Richmond re-
mains partially frozen and navigation is
impeded by ice foes. Carriers vans traverse
the frozen surface from Sutton Court to
Arlington. Numerous deaths have resulted
from the extreme cold, several of them at
the very gates of the warehouses;
where the poor unfortunate creatures
were clamoring for admission. Midland
newspap ers declare that thousands
of persons in that region are in condition
of seml-starvation. Many local committees
are adopting measures of relief, but they
fail TO reach host of cases.
In every country on the Continent there is
great suffering because of the severe
weather The coasts of Belgium, Holland
and North Germany are blocked with ice.
Many steamers and ships are ice bound in
the rivers Scheldt and Elbe, and some are
badly damaged.
At Antwerp 10000 workmen have been
thrown out of employment owing to the
unusually severe weather. Misery among
the poorer classes is intense and widespread.
Dynamite is to be used at Copenhagen
Harbor in the hope of getting out number
of vessels that are now ice-bonnd.
Dispatches from several German ports
tell of the inaccessibility of their harbors
because of the ice.
All Bavaria is covered with snow, and in
the country between the Danube and Alps
snow is eighteen inches deep. In certain
localities along the Rhine snow drifts were
piled up seventeen feet high. In Northern
Italy snow fell heavily for forty-eight hours.
The inhabitants of that region are suffering
acutely, such weather being entirely I'M
known to them. and it is feared number
have persisted in the storm. Railways are
much delayed.
Dispatches from Vienna say that COM
munication with points south of that city is
greatly impeded on all the railways center
ing there, and the movement of trains is
partially suspended.
\ telegram from Madrid reports heavy
snowfall in Spain. and says communication
with all the provinces of Spain is difficult.
Reports Of the prevalence Of intensely cold
weather in Valencia are also received. The
orange groves have been swept by the
storm, entailing heavy losses to the owners.
a violent storm, accompanied by hail and
snow, and extending a long distance inland,
is reported from Algiers, in North Africa.
The report is coupled with the assurance
that nothing like such severe weather was
ever known in that region before.
'Sdvices from Paris say the Seine Is
blocked with ice near Rouen and the
Saone is frozen above Lyons. Much suffer-
ering is caused in many interior places by
the intensely cold weather, and number of
persons have been frozen to death.
From Austria come reports of tre-
mendous storm prevailing. AT Trieste all
the roads are blocked, and supplies are get
ting short
No reports have been received from the
Alpine districts for two days. Snow is
still falling in Vienna. SIX thousand men
are employed in cleaning the immense mass
OF snow already on the ground.