The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-01-15
A HARD WINTER IN EUROPE.

A HARD WINTER IN EUROPE.
Great Suffering Reported from Almost
! Every Country on the Continent-Many
q Perish from Cold and Hunger.
LONDON, Jan. 10. 1t is now the
seventh week of the prevalence of frost
Throughout the United Kingdom, with
mo signs of abatement of the severity
OF the weather. From John O'Groat's
house to Lands End the country
Is wrapped in snow, and canals
and streets are ice-bound. Even a
number of tidal rivers are frozen
fast. For duration of the frost period
this is the greatest winter of the
century, and in point of severity the
winters of 1918 and 1914 alone exceed
it. The Thames below Richmond re-
mains partially frozen and is covered
with ice foes which are impeding navi-
CATION. Above Teddington the ice
on the Thames is eight inches
thick. Carriers vans can ira
verse the rivers frozen sur
face from, Sutton Court to Alb
!ington. Skaters have free stretch for
anany miles above and below Oxford.
Numerous 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 newspapers de-
clare that thousands of persons
are in condition of semi-starva-
ton, many laborers being compulsorily
idle, without fires or food. Mayors of
cities with the aid of loca boards are
directing an organized distribution of
bread and coal and are starting relief
kitchens, still they fail to reach a host
of cases of distress. Numerous in
stances occur of coroners' 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, Hol-
land and North Germany are blocked
with ice. In the Scheldt river naviga-
ton is nearly at a standstill on account
of the ice. At the North German port
of Cuxhaven twepty-nine steam
ships are ice-bohnd. Pilots there
are unable to communicate with
vessels on account of the ice foes,
thus making the harbor inaccessible.
mense masses of the floating ice and
their hulls were SO badly damaged that
the boats rapidly filled with water and
soon went to the bottom. In every in
stance their crews were saved from
death only with great difficulty.
At Hamburg navigation is greatly i'm
pcded by the immense blocks of ice
which fill the river. The board of nav
igatipn is making every effort to keep
the river open and is employing three
of the strongest tugs that could be Sc
cured as ice-breakers.
At Antwerp 10000 workmen have
been thrown out of employment owing
to the unusually severe weather. The
misery caused among the poorer classes
in consequence is widespread and in
tense.
Dispatches from the German ports of
Lubbock, Stettin and Winemunde all
tell of the inaccessibility of their har-
bors on account of the ice, and say that
navigation has ceased, that there is
much snow and that no open water is
visible. In Berlin the temperature is
at 16 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit
The Harz railway is snow-blocked, and
the mails usually conveyed by it's trains
are now transported in sleighs.
All Bavaria is covered with snow,
and in the country between the Danube
and the Alps the snow is eighteen inch
es deep. In certain localities along the
Rhine snow-drifts are piled seventeen
feet high, threatening inundations when
they thaw.
In Northern Italy snow began to fall
on Wednesday and did not cease. until
Friday. The inha bitants of that region
are suffering acutely, such weather
being entirely unknown to them, and it
is feared that numbers of people have
perished in the storm.
A telegram from Madrid reports heavy
snowfalls in Spain and says communi-
cation with all the provinces of Spain
is difficult. 1t also reports the preEa
lence of intensely cold weather in
Valencia, where orange groves have
been swept by the storm, entailing
heavy losses to the owners.
At Marseilles the hospitals are gorged
with sufferers from various affections
caused by the cold weather. Dock la
borers there have lighted along the
quays great fires at which to warm
themselves during working hours Two
express trains bound for Trieste are
showed up, and it is not known
whether relief has been sent to the
passengers. At Klagenfurth, in Aus
tria, freight train has been
buried out of sight by an avalanche.
The bora wind continues to blow
At Trieste the wheels of the 1ocomo-
tives freeze to the rails, and the popu-
iation of the city is helpless so far as
getting supplies is concerned. No re
ports have been received from Alpine
districts for two days. There are fears
of a sudden thaw, which will flood the
rivers.
A violent storm. accompanied by hail
and snow and extending long distance
nland is reported from the seaport
# Algiers, in North Africa The
'eport is coupled with the assur-
Ince that nothing like such a
.everity of weather was ever known
n that region before. Advices from
'aris say that the Seine is blocked
With ice near Rouen and that the Rhone
S frozen above Lyons. kilograms from
Arras and Mines say that much suffer
ng is being caused at these places by
he intensely cold weather and that
lumber of persons have been found
-rozen to death.
THROUGH THE ICE.
wo Brothers Drowned at Cassville, Wis.
The Mothers Narrow Escape.
CAssvILLE, Wis, Jan. 1O.-Two little