The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-20
Miserable Wretches in Paris
Huddle by the Blaze.
PUBLIC SOUP HOUSES OPENED.
Wild Beasts Driven From the Mount.
aims by the Bitter Cold.
Before in the History Of Europe
Harbors Frozen and the Coast strewn
with Icebergs Fine Skating.

PARIS, Jan. 19--The municipal authori-
ties tonight lighted hundreds of fires in
the streets of the city. and large numbers
of wretchedly poor persons crowded
around them to obtains some relief from
the intense cold. which prevails. Every
effort is being made u relieve the great
distress and the Palace DE Beauxartes has
been converted into anight shelter for
the homeless, and is provided with soup
kitchen. Municipal buildings elsewhere
are also used for similar purposes. An
epidemic of disease resembling influenza
has broken out in Berlip-
Dispatches from all parts of France tell
of great Inconvenience and suffering caused
by the intense cold weather. The harbors
of Toulon and LansanHk are frozen over for
the first time on record5 The olive crop in
the department of Gard is fast being
ruined. The whole eonlmunity in the
neighborhood of Perpignan, in the Pyre-
nees, is cut off from communication, and
ay-farers have been frezen to death. At
Saragossa, Spain, the mercury is IA degrees
Farenhelt, and snow Il falling. A large
number of vessels afs ice-bonnd at Bor-
deaux. Packs Of wolves and wild boars
are invading the isolated districts. The
animals have become desperate through
hunger. and fearlessly prowl about the
houses to the great CONSERVATION of the
people. The same state of affairs exist in
Spain.
Advices from .Algiers are to the effect
that the country is covered with snow, and
that traffic is blockaded.
Yesterday an aged man was found
frozen to death in lcdging-house in this
city. The thermometer yesterday touched
degrees Fahrenheit at Macon, here, 12
at Toulouse and 5 at Grenoble Wells are
frozen at Perpignan, where q man was
found frozen TO death in the street A
woman was found frozen to death in bed
at Spignal, where the thermometer. indi-
Gates degrees below zero Slight snow
falls are reported from the Riviera
LONDON, Jan. 19.-=The severity of the
weather recently experienced in Great
Britain is increasing. There is much suf-
fering among the poorer classes, and from
various sections of the country come ac-
counts of many cattle, and in several in
stances human beings. having been frozen
to death Several trades are at stand
still. A lady was found today frozen to
death in a railroad carriage at station in
this city.
VIENNA. Jan. l9.--Nearly all the roads
and railroads throahout Austria are
blocked with snow, causing considerable
delay. In addition number of country
towns are completely isolated, and are
likely to remain so some time. These
towns are suffering for inability to renew
their coal and provision supplies.
MEL, Jan. 19.-The Baltic sea, so far as
can be seen from the lighthouse, is covered
with ice. Lake Constance is covered with
ice and navigation is suspended.
BERLIN, Jan. l9.-Several steamers in the
ice-blocked River Elbe have lost their pro-
pellers by dashing against ice-hoats. A
number of vessels have parted their
anchor chains and are drifting hopelessly
III the stream. The strongest tugs cannot
leave the harbor of Cuxhaven on account
OF the ice. Citizens are assisting the mill
tary to blast the ice with melinite
Reports from all parts show that the
thermometer has touched many degrees
below zero Fahrenheit, but that the cold is
bearable in the absence of wind. The ice
here is eighteen inches thick. The sea be-
tween Stratsund and Rugen, five miles in
width, is alive with skaters and sleighs
The ponds are frozen to the bottom
Twen y-one head of deer in the royal
forest at Beudath have died.
In Holland and Belgium several feet of
snowfall has put a stop to railway and
street travel. Thousands of men are en-
gagged in clearing the roads. On the coast
of Holland the sea is frozen over a great
distance, and there are banks OF ice on
shore of extreme beauty. Only the har-
bors of Rotterdam and Flushing are acces-
sible to vessels
Advices from Naples report the death of
two persons from cold. The Italian rivers
are incumbered with ice. The roof of
school for BOYS at San Dunctrio gave way
beneath the burden of snow and ice, and
the whole mass went crashing into the
schoolroom below. Twenty pupils were
injured. On the frontier near Geneva a
man was found frozen to death.
Several vessels have been wrecked in the
Bay of Biscay, and a number of lives lost.
Gales throughout Europe are the severest
in years.