Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-11
SEVERAL LIVES ARE LOST,
While the Destruction Along the
Coast Is Simply Appalling.
LONDON BURIED UNDER THE SNOW.
Telegraph Wires Down and Traffic in
General Suspended.
TIE WORST STORM OF THIS CENTURY.
rBr puxLAr's CABLE COMPANY,


LONDON, March 10.-A blizzard ha'
been raging over England since O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, which is generally ad-
mitted TO be the worst storm of the century.
On Friday the mercury had risen to such
an extent that the temperature was summer
like but to-day the country is again plunged
INTO the depth of winter and is knee-deep in
SNOW. Last evening the streets of the me-
tropolis were deserted. The wind was blow
ing gale aud sitting fine snow into the
faces of pedestrians. Russes stopped run
ming, no cabs could be had, telegraph COM
muGication with the continent was inter-
rupted, and trains were either entirely
blocked or greatly delayed, many accidents
being reported.
From the provinces comes the information
that the country roads are Imnassable on ac-
count of the drifts. The state OF affairs on
the coast and in English &nd ST. George
channels is simply appalling. Many YES
seis have been torn from their moorings at
the quayS, and along the whole coast the
greatest excitement prevails The loss in
fishing boats and telegraph wires is i'm
mense
London Blocked With Snow.
London this morning looked like city
that had a pall thrown over it and then been
abandoned. Street traffic has been brought
to a stanGstill, and only stray pedestrian
was here and there visible. From Wales it
is reported that the loss of sheep on the e1-
posed hill pastures is very heavy. Last
night the business at the theaters was much
ebal NJ
Portsmouth was postponed.
Brighton to-day is SAID 10 resemble New
Yo'k during the blizzard OF 1885, Indeed
the people characterize this as American
westler, more especially as it tulhlls
recent prediction from that country that
England would experience terrible storms
about this time. Great anxiety was felt
over the receipt OF telegram from Dover,
10 the effect that the club train boat that left
last evening for Calais, which usually
crosses in an hour, and having on board the
Duchess Of Edinburgh aud suite, had not ar
rived there early this morning Finally
news came that the buffeted vessel had
reached port about 9 A NJ, after fearful
experience.
Awful Night on the Channel
The unfortunate passengers report that the
night on the channel WAS simply awful, aud
4 correspondent at Dover says that the sea in
the harbor was terrific, the waves washing com.
pletely over the quays and making the situa-
ton OF the vessels IN port most dangerous. As
il was, the mail steamer Wave, which to
have crossed last night, nearly sank at the pier,
ner port paddle box being completely wrecked.
Ii s impossible to send out the other mail
boats, as the sea is now making a clear breach
over the admiralty pier, which is inaccessible,
Che telegraph clerk and signal man being vir-
tnaily Imprisoned. Distress signals from the
direction OF q Goadwin Sands are now visible
from all parts of the Kingdom come reports
OF serious delays in railway and other traffic.
The passenger train from Chatham to Favers-
ham was showed up at Teynham. Some pas
sengers walked home, while Others obtained
lodgings in the village. The mail car: from
Dover 10 Ramsgatr WAS unable to get through
1hIs morning. while the Chatham and Dover
line is blocked and the mails consequently de-
layed.
Buried in the Snow.
At Sheerness the mail cart driver and his
bags were discovered by searching party
hidden by a snuwdrift, while the Sheerness
branch line is blockaded and no train had
reached Sitting bourne. All the lines in
Deyonshire are blocked. a mail train being
Enowed up at Morihoe, to whose relief a train
has been sent. Another mail train hound from
Southampton to iOnCon lies helpless in deep
cutting between Winchester and Farnham,
and all traffic on the Taft Railway in Wales,
and on It's Aberdare and MeTthyr branches, has
A singular accident is reported from Ports
mouth. where. during the height of the storm
last night a convict named Wilson escaped
from the dock yard. The alarms we've soon
given and search also made. but no trace of
him could be found until this morning. when
lie was discovered in a boat off Whale Island,
not far from land. He had been there ali
night, and when rescued was nearly dead from
exhaustion, his sufferingS having been intense
and the storm preventing him from making
good his escape To the French coast Captain
SGinley, of the Victoria, one of the regular
packet boats reports having been obliged to
lay to in the channel all night. He says that it
was the worst weather he had ever expert
euced.
-Four Lifeboat Men Drowned.
Snow is now falling, and the Weather
Bureau predicts still another gale with
more Snow squalls, ana that it will be
very cold tonight. The New Haven boat train.
which cunnecJsiWith the channel steamer and
the Eastbourne mail, we're both blocked at
EastUouTne at midnight. The New Haven
tram got started again, and passed Lewes this
afternoon seven hours late. Her passengers
repOrS fearful passage across the channel. A
schooner is ashore near New Haven, and at
night, and four of the crew drowned, including
tie chief coast guard.
1ht yacht Sapphire, from Flushing for Har-
wCh. while making the latter port at midnight
struck a rock, and Mr.. Macharr. her owner
OF Glasgow, WAS washed overheard and
drowned. The entrance to the tunnel at Wey-
mouth l. chpEed with snow, and as a result
there have been no trains since o clock last
night. The Channel Islands telegraph wires
are down. and there is, in consequence much
delay in sendIng cable messages to Belgium
and France.