Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-01-10
NO. ISL
AN ICY BLANKET
COVERS GREAT BRITAIN AND ALL OF OOSrI-
MENTAL EUROPE
lntsase Sassrng From the Cold and Lack Of Food and
FIRE Reported in Erglaai-AE the Continental
Cauriries Barred Beneath Snow and
les-Sisantrs in Distress.

LONDON, January 9.-It Is now the
seventh week Of the prevalence of the
frost throughout the United Kingdom.
with no signs oi abatement of the
severity Of the weather. From John
.O'Groat's house to Lands End the coun.
try is wrapped in snow. and canals and
streams are ice-bOund. Even number
OF tidal rivers are frozen fast. The
Thames below Richmond remains par.
tally frozen and j. covered with Ice
Hoes. which are impeding navigation.
Numerous deaths have resulted from
the extreme cold, several of them az the
very gates OF workhouses, where groups
OF poor people were waiting for shelter.
Midland newspapers declare that thou
sands OF persons Ia that region are BOO a
condition OF Scmi-staryation. many lac
borerS being compulsorily idle. without
Tires or food. Mayors of cities Siih the
aid Of local boards are directing an of
ganized distribution OF bread aud coal.
and are starting relief Kitchens. stiu
they fail 10 reach host OF Gases Of dis
trcsS. Numerous instances occur ol
Coroners inqucsts on the bodie, OF peu-
Pile found dead In bed. where the ,er-
diet is that death resulted from cold and
hunger.
Ia every country in the continent
there Is suffering because of the severe
weather. The coasts OF Belgium. Ilol-
land aud North Germany are blocked
with lee. In the Scheldt river nayiga-
tiOn is nearly at staud-still on account
Of the ice. At the North German port
Of Cuxhayen twenty-ninc steamship,
are ice-bound.
Several vessels were struck by im-
menSc masses Of the floating Zee. aul
their hullS were 50 badly damaged that
the boats rapidly filled with water and
soon went to the bottom. Ia every u-
stence their crews were saved from
death only with great difficulty.
A number OF steamers are drifting
hclplesSly between Ottendorf and
Brunsbuttel They have lost their
anchors and have been considerably
damaged by floating ice. At llamburs
navigation is greatly impeded hy fhr
immense blocks of lee which hi thc
river. At Antwerp ten thousand work
lllfl lAdNt nfflA Ail Wv TT MNAA WA NNNII.f
ment. owing To the unusually severe
weather which j. prevailing at.prcsrnt.
The misery caused among the poorer
classes In consequence j. widespread aud
intense. The use OF dynamite is about 90
be- tried 10 break the ice AZ Copenhagen.
where several steamships lic icebound
In Berlin the llarL railway is ,noN
blocked and the mails usually conveyed
by its trains are now transported boo
sleighs.
All Bavaria is covered with SNOW.
and in the country between the Danube
and the Alps the snow j. eighteen
inches deep. IN certain localitie, along
he Rhine snow drifts are piled boz SOME
spots seventeen feet high, threatening
when they thaw.
In Northern Italy snow began GALL.
ng ON Wednesday and dill noi
ease till to-day. The inhahIiani-
If that region are suffering
lcutely. such weather being cntrciy
unknown TO them. aud 30 is feared that
numbers OF people have prri>hcd boo ihr
storm, Dispatches from Vienna say
hat communication with p iut> south
IF that city Is greatly lmprdcd,
ind that on all railways center
ng there the movement of trains
: partially suspended. A telegram
from Madrid reports heavy inow falls
u Spain. aud says communication with
,ll the provinces OF Spain is difficult
At Marscillcs the hospital, are gorgod
with sufferer, from vaoious affections.
'aused by the cold weather
4 violent storm accompanied hy bail
md snow, and extending a long dis
ance inland is reported from the ,ra-
,ort Of Algicrs in North Africa. The
eport is coupled with the assurance
hat nothing like such severity of
weather. was ever knoSu BOZ that region
,eforc. Adyices from Paris sty
hat the Seine is blocked with irr
rear Rouen, aud that the Boan is frDlrn
boye Lyons. Telegrams from Arra-
nd Mines say that much suffering I-
icing caused at these place, hy the boo.
en,cly cold weather and that q uum-
,er Of persons have been found frozen
q death.
A sad ease is reported from the village
t Fourmlcs, in the Department of
Iord. Three children were cought ln
raging snow storm in q wood near thr
illage. They wandered about uniIl
yercome by cold aud exhaustion, when
n three sank TO the ground aud pel
she'd in the snow. 4 party which bad
.one in search Of them found the chile
Iren buried Ia the snow.