The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-03-14
BLIZZARD IN ENGLAND
Fierce Storm of Wind and Snow sweeps
Over the Island.

oNeI tht i>iitho.
LONDON, March l0.-The blizzard in
the South of England continues, though
the weather il London is milder.
The railroads of Kent and Sussex
are completely blockaded. and the
neighboring country is deep with snow.
\ hurricane which accompanied the
Snow caused the railroad lines 10 be
blockadcd. Two trains full of passen-
gers IN the midlands were showed up
ta1t night, and the passengers We're not
rescued until this morning. The res
cucd people suffered terribly from cold
!1r!ng the night. owing to the unheated
'ndilIon Of the cars.
train on the North Kent Railroad
bound Tor III city WAS showed up last
night and still remains in the railroad
cutting where it was stopped by drift.
y number Of engines have been sent to
the scene, but they have been unable as
yet TO move tie blocked train from the
cutting.
The Sheerness mail ear cannot be
oInd. 1t has been lost somewhere
anong the line of railroad between this
c ty and ShcernesS. A search party sent
out after the missing mail car rescued
the engineer OF the lost engine He was
lound half frozen in snow drift. Two
cIcfGymen were showed up in u carr age
Oil the FaveTsham Road last night. and
were rescued with difficulty after hav-
Ing filtered severely.
Reports from the provinces show that
the blizzard prevailed from the It.
',Corge's Channel to the North Sea.
The effects OF the severe storm has been
tie stoppage of the South Wales Iron
Works. All railroad traffic is stopped,
and the trains there re DELAYED.
In Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, Hamp
shire and GIouce> trrshire there are
snow drifts everywhere. many feet
deep, rendering field work impossible,
In these counties the mail service has
been completely stopred, and the
farmers suffer immense loss among the
cattle and sheep tIocks with which
their farms are stocked.
Taken altogether the storm has been
unequalied Iii severity ;or decade, not
excepting the terrible weather eXper-
fenced during the latter part of 1890.
Another instance was a snow block
AIDED train upon road familiar to
Americais who cross the Channel
to and from the Continent.
\ passenger train which left
Charing Cross Railroad station at mid
night Tor FoIkestcne was caught in n
nigh snowdrift outside of Folkestone.
ine passengers Were not rescued until
=, o clock this morning, when many OF
them We're seriously i'll, owing to the
fact that they had been III a half frozen
condition.
On the London, Chatham & Rover
Railroad the trains were delayed tol
hours Maidstone, Sheerness and Sit
,Il,- ,,ff f,1,
municatiOn with the country surround
ing them.
The Thames has commenced to rise
in dangerous manner, and already in
undates the low-lying districts border
ing on that river from Richmond down.
Work about the various docks in and
about London has been partially sus-
pended, owing TO the mass Of snow ac-
cumulated about the docks and ships.
In South Dcyonshire the snow storm
continues its violence as this despatch
is sent ESQ p. NJ. The railroads are
hlOckaded, and the mail train bound
from southampton for London is showed
up at some up-to-thc- present unknown
spot. The towns on the Channel Isl
ands have also been cut off by the snow
rom all communication with each
other.
At Lvdd, small seaport town of
Kent, While the coast guard Hfe-
WAS gong TO the rescue OF the crew Of
an endangered vessel, the life boat cap
sized and several of its gallant occu-
pants were drowned.
Near Hastings, Sussex County, FIVE
fishing smacks have been wrecked and
three fishermen were drowned. The
others barely escaped with their lives.
The mail boat plying between Dover
and Calais, and on her way to the latter
port through the storm, reached Calais
in safety, but in a terribly lattered con-
..iiion, after being eighteen hours adrift
the channel. Her lady passengers
we're half dead with sea-sickness and
ear when the mail boat made Calais.
j convict named Wilson escaped last
night from the Portland convict depot
.lUtng the height Of the storm. He
.ound a boat near the sea shore. put TO
-ea, and was picked up at sea to-day by
4 passing vessel. When taken ont OF the
uoat the convict was diving Of cold.