St. Paul daily globe., 1891-01-10
STORM SWEPT EUROPE
Every Country on the Con-
tinent Suffering From
Severe Weather.
Thousands of English People
in a State of Semi re re
Starvation. ss 1ss
BarbarOuS Atrocities Com
mitted by the Natives Of st o
New Guinea. -. ~
Generous Scots Offer to Pay
Extra Freight to AS
sist Employees.

Lo NDoN Jan. 9.-It isDow the seventh
week of the prevalence of frost throughout
the United Kingdom, with no signs of abate-
ment of the severity Of the weather. From
o. 'Groat's house to Lands End the country
is wrapped III snow, and canals and streams
are ice-bound. Even number OF tidal r1y-
ers are frozen fast. For duration of the frost
period this is the greatest winter OF the GEN.
tury; and, in point of severity, the winters OF
1913 and 1914 alone exceeded ii. Fairs
were then held on the ice on the Thames,
Severn, Tyne and Tweed. Booths were
reared on the ice, and all the usual fair
frolics were held thereon. The Thames, be-
low Richmond. remains partially frozen, and
Is covered with ice foes, which are
impeding navigation. Above Tedding-
ton the ice on the Thames is eight
inches thick. Carriers vans can traverse the
rivers frozen surface from Sutton court to
Abingdon. Skaters have free stretch for
many miles above and below Oxford. Num-
erous deaths have resulted from the extreme
cold, several of them at the very gates OF
work houses, where groups OF poor people
were waiting for shelter Midland newspa-
pers declare that thousands of persons in
that region are in condition OF
Semi-Starvation,
many laborers being compulsorily idle with
out fires or food. Mayors of cities, with the
air of local boards. are directing an organ
lied distribution of bread and coal and are
starting relief Kitchens still they fail
to reach a host of cases of distress
inquests on the bodies of people found
dead in bed, where the verdict is that death
resulted from cold and hunger. In every
country on the continent there is suffering
because of the severe weather. The coasts
of Belgium, Holland and North Germany are
hlnpkad with ipQ In the Schnl0t river nAVI-
CATION is nearly at standstill on account OF
the ice. At the North German port of Cux-
haven twenty-nlne steamships are 1ce-bound
Pilots there are unable to communicate with
vessels on account of the ice foes, thus max
ing the harbor inaccessible. Several vessels
were struck by immense masses of the float
ing ice and their huls were so badly dam
aged that the boats rapidly filed with water
and soon went to the bottom. In every
instance their crews were saved from
death only with great difficulty.
number of steamers are drifting helplessly
between Ottendort and Brunsbuttel. They
have lost their anchors and have been con-
siderably damaged by the floating ice. In
Berlin the temperature is at l6 degrees
fahrenheit. The Harz railway is snow
blocked, and the mails usually conveyed by
its trains are now transported in sleighs. All
Bavaria is covered with snow, ana in the
country between the Danube and the Alps
the snow is eighteen inches deep. In certain
piled in some spots seventeen feet high
threatening inundations when they thaw. In
Northern Italy snow began to fall on Wednes-
Gay and did not cease till to-day. The in
such weather being entirely unknown TO
them and it is feared that atnumbers of people
have Il
Perished in the Storm.
At Mantua, Turin and Milan railway trains
are much delayed on account OF the heavy
snowfall. Dispatches from Vienna say that
communication with points south of that
city is greatly impeded, and that on all rail-
ways centering there the movement of trains
is partially suspended. telegram from
Madrid reports heavy snowfalls in Spain, and
says that communication with all the prov
inces of Spain is difficult. 1t also reports
the prevalence of intensely cold weather in
Valencia, where orange groves have been
swept by the storm, entailing heavy losses to
the owners. At MarseKes the hospitals are
gorged with sufferers from various affections
caused by the cold weather More snow has
quay m great fires at which to warm
themselves during the working hours.
A violent storm, accompanied by hail and
snow and extending a long distance inland,
is reported from the seaport of Algiers in
North Africa. The report. is coupled with
the assurance that nothing like such severity
of weather was ever known in that region
before. Advices from Paris say that the
Seine is blocked with ice near Rouen, and
that the Saone is frozen above Lyons Tele-
grams from Arras and Mines say that much
suffering is being caused at these places by
the intensely cold weather, and that a num-
Der of persons have been found frozen to
death. sad case is reported from the vii
lage of Fourmies in the department of NOrd.
Three children were caught in q raging snow
storm in wood near the village. They wan
dered about until overcome by cold and ex-
haustion, when all three sank to the ground
and perished in the snow. A party which
had gone in search of them found the chill
dren in the snow.
A peculiarly of the weather is that in the
north of Scotland mild weather prevails. In
Aberdeen there have been only nine frosty
mornings, against tWenty-nine in London,
during the past month. At Sunburgh head,
in the Shetlands, there has been
only one frosty morning in the
same period. Even Rodo, Norway, has
only had half of the frosty morn
ings that London has had. Two-thirds of
the Seine is covered with ice, and there is a
prospect of its being entirely frozen over.
It's waters, owing to the freezing of its tribu-
taries, are abnormally low and the current
sluggish. All the canal and most of the river
traffic has been stopped. The Rhone is
frozen fast and ice-bound at Tarascon.
In Paris the temperature stands at %, and
at the Observatory Pic du Midi the thermom-
eter registers zero fahrenheit. The cold
wave extends to the Mediterranean. Ad-
vices from Tunis say that the
Hills Are SnOw-Clad.
New York kilograms announcing milder
weather convey the only hope of change
The snowfall has ceased in most places in
Germany, except in East Prussia. coun-
try postman was overcome by the excessively
cold weather while going his rounds at
Mecklenburg, in Germany. He was subse-
euently found in the snow, and
was carried to an hospital but
died upon his arrivrl there. Two
express trains bound for Trieste are
showed up, and it is not known whether re-
lief has been sent to the passengers. AT
Klagenfurth, in Austria, freight train has
been buried out of sight by an avalanche
The bora wind continues to blow. At Trieste
the wheels of the locomotives freeze to the
rails and the population of the city is
helpless as far as getting supplies is con-
cerned. No reports have been received from
Alpine districts for two days. There are
fears of a sudden thaw, which will flood the
rivers. Aregular road or avenue, lined with
green fir trees placed in tubs on the ice has
been laid out across the frozen Danube
just outside Nussdorf to delight the
Viennese. Snow is still falling in Vienna.
Six thousand men are employed clearing the
streets of the immense mass of snow which
is already on the ground. The passenger
trains continue to make trips, but the move
ment of freight trains has been partially sus.
pended.