Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-10
Coolest Weather in Great
Britain Since 1913.
London's Poor Dying at the
Work House Doors.
Unprecedented Shows and Cold on
the Continent.
Italy Invaded by the Frost King and the
Orange Groves of Valencia Swept
of Their Fruit.
ssociated Press Dispatches.

LONDON, Jan. 9.-There are no signs
of the abatement of the severe winter
weather throughout Great Britain or the
continent. From all points come stories
of suffering. In Great Britain the sever
ity OF the season has not been exceeded
since 1918. The river Thames below
Richmond remains partially frozen, and
navigation is impeded by ice foes. Car
riers' vans traverse the frozen surface
from Sutton court to Abingdon. Numer-
GUS deaths have resulted from the ex-
treme cold, several of them at the very
gates OF the work-houses, where the poor
are clamoring for admission. The Mid
land newspapers declare that thousands
of persons of that region are in a condi-
ton of semi-starvation. : Many local
committees are taking measures for re-
lief, but they fail to reach the host of
cases.
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 many steamers, and ships are ice
bound in the rivers Scholdt and Elbe,
and some have been badly damaged.
At Antwerp 10000 workmen have
been thrown out of employment, owing
TO the severe weather. The misery
among the poorer classes is intense and
widespread. axe
Dynamite is to be used at the Copen-
hagen harbor, in the hopes of getting
out number of vessels now ice-bound.
Dispatches from several German ports
tell OF the inaccessibility of their har-
bors because OF ice. te Il
All Bavaria is covered with snow, and
in the country between the Danube and
the Alps the snow is eighteen inches
deep. In certain localities along the,
Rhine snow drifts are piled seventeen
feet high. In Northern Italy snow fell
heavily for forty-eight hours. The in
habitants OF that region are suffering
acutely, such weather being entirely un-
known to them, and it is feared many
perished in the storm. The railway
trains are much delayed.
Dispatches from Vienna Say commu-
nication with many points south of that
city is greatly impeded on the railways
centering there. The movement of
trains is partially suspended.
A telegram from Madrid reports a
heavy snow fall in Spain, and says COM
munication with all the provinces of
Spain is difficult. 1t also reports in.
tensely cold weather prevailing in
Valencia, where the orange groves have
beSn swept by the. storm. entailing
heavy Aasaas- -to- o-thaxoWners. q. Z,
violent storm accompanied by hail
and snow, and extending long distance
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north Africa. The report is coupled
such severe weather was ever known in
that region before.
Advices from Paris say the Seine is
blockaded with ice near Rouen, and is
frozen above Lyons. Much suffering is
places by the intensely cold weather,
and a number of persons have been
frozen to death.
mendous storm prevailing. At Trieste
all the roads are blockaded, and sup
plies are getting short. No reports have
been received from the Alpine districts
for two days. Snow is still falling in
Vienna. Six thousand men are en-
ployed in clearing the immense mass of
snow already on the ground.
In an interview today with the presi-
dent of the council regarding the re-
ported trouble in the Caroline islands,,
the minister of war declared it impossi-
BILE fol- anything of such nature to have
occurred in the Carolines without his
being informed of the fact. Missionary
Band, he said, was second in authority
at the Methodist mission at Ponape. He
had left the islands since the defeat of
the natives by the Spanish troops.
The minister of colonies declared
that he had no news of the alleged in
surrection. He said he believes the
statements OF trouble were incorrect, or
else referred to the old conflict in which
the Spanish troops were victorious.