Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-03-27
BLIZZARD IN ENGLAND.
Worst Storm Of the Century
Strikes Great Britain.
London Paralyzed, Traffic Blocked
and Shipping Destroyed.

| Details given below of the violent Atlantic
snow gale which ravaged England, especial
| ly its southern districts, show that it was one
of the severest storms recorded near the
vernal equinox 1t will rank with the cele-
brated Royal Charter" storm of October
1859, so called from the fact that during its
| gales a stout ship of that name was dashed
TO pieces, with great loss of life, on Anglesea
| Island.
! a cablegram from London, says: The only
| topic of discussion in England is the fearful
! blizzard which peralyZed business in town
and country. The visitation has had no
precedence in Great Britain at this time of the
year.
The railroads of Kent and Sussex are COM
pletely blocked and the neighboring country
is deep with snow. The hurricane which &C
companied the snow-storm piled snowdrifts
on all sides, stopping all traffic on the rail
way lines and upon the country roads.
The trains full of passengers in the Mid
lands were showed no.
The Sheerness mail car has been lost some
where along the line Of railroad between
this city and Sheerness. A search party
sent out after the missing car rescued the
engineer of the lost engine. He was found
half frozen in a snowdrift.
Reports from the provinces show that the
blizzard prevailed from st. Georges Channel
to the North Sea. All road traffic was
stopped and trains there delayed.
In Somersetshire, DOrsetshire Hampshire
and Worcestershire there are snowdrifts
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 with which their farms are
stocked. Taken altogether, the storm has
been unequaled in severity for decade, not
excepting the terrible weather in the latter
part of 1890.
Another instance of q SNOW hIOcka6 lad train
is upon a road familiar to Americans who
cross the Channel to and from the Con-
tinent, A passenger train which left Char
ing Cross Station at midnight for Folke-
stone caught in a huge SnOwdrift outside
of Folkestone. The passengers were not res
cued until o'clock next morning when many
of them were seriously i'll, owing TO the fact
that they had been in a half frozen condition
for several hours. The passengers had neither
food nor light from the time when they were
imprisoned in the snowb bound cars until they
were rescued
The green grocers of London and else
where are naturally suffering from a dearth
of vegetables, etc All the wagons coming
case of London, for Covent Garden
Market, have been showed up along
the roads leading into the metropolis, and a
scarceness and rise in price of such provisions
may be looked for within the next day or
two. Work about the various docks in and
owing to the mass of snow accumulated about
the docks and ships
At Lydd, small seaport town of Kent,
while the coast-guard lifeboat was going to
the rescue Of the crew Of an endangered
vessel, the lifeboa6 capsiZed, and several of
it's gallant occupants were drowned. Near
Hastings, Sussex County, five fishing smacks
have been wrecked. Three fishermen were
drowned, the other members of the crews
barely escaping with their lives.
A convict named Wilson escaped from the
Portland convict depot during the height of
the storm. He found boat near the sea-
Shore put to sea. and was picked up next day
by passing vessel. When taken out Of the
boat the convict was dying Of cold.
Only meagre kilograms were received from
various parts of England and Wales. The
lines, according to these dispatches, are gen
orally blocked.
Traffic on the Great Western Railway is
completely blocked, and the trains on that
road which were caught out in the storm are
stalled at different points.
A dispatch from Harwich brings the in
formation that the yacht Sapphire, owned
by MacLarr of Glasgow, has been driven
ashore there during the gale. Mr.. Mac
LAIR, the dispatch adds, was washed over
board and drowned.
Information received from Cardiff is to the
effect that the storm RACES in that neigh
borhood with undated force and severity.
A dispatch from Dover says that the Adj
miralty Pier at that place has been so bat
terrell by the waves that huge stones weigh
ing ten tons apiece have been dispaced, and
that blocks of iron weighing two tons each
have been carried away by the violence Of
the angry waters.