The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-01-21
SUFFERING EUROPE.
SEVEN WEEKS OF SEVERE WEATHER
AND NO ABATEMENT YET.
England is Wrapped in Snow, and Many

AND NO ABATEMENT YET.
England is Wrapped in Snow, and Many
Rivers and Streams are Frozen Over
Numerous Death. from Cold and Hun
ser-Much Suffering.
LONDON, Jan. lit IS now the
seventh week of the prevalence OF frost
through the United Kingdom, with no
signs of abatement ofthe severity OF the
weather.
From John O'Groat's house to Lands
End, the country is trapped i snow,
and canals and streams are ice-hoand.
Even numbers Of ti6s!, rivers are frozen
fast.
For the duration Of the frost period
this is the greatest winter ofth cen
tury, and in point OF severity the winters
of 1913 and 1914 alone exceeded it.
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 below Richmond re-
mains partially frozen and is covered
with ice foes, which are impeding navl-
cation. Above Leddington, ice on the
Thames is eight inches thick. Carriers
vans can traverse the rivers frozen sur
TAGS from Sutton Court to Abingdon.
Skaters have free stretch Tor many
miles above and below Oxford. Aumerou
deaths have resulted from extreme cold,
several of them at the very gates OF
yorkhou.es where groups Of poor people
were waiting for shelter.
Midland newspapers declare that
thousands OF persons in mat regime are
in q condition of semi-starvaton, many
laborers being compulsorily IDLE without
fires or food.
The mavors Of cities, with the aid of
local boards. are directing an organHSsa
distribution of bread and coal, and are
starting relief kitchens; still they fail to
reach hosts of cases ofdistress. Numer-
Gus instances occur ofcoroner's lnquestss
on bodies of people found dead in bed
where the verdict is that death resulted
from cold or hunger.
In every country on the centlnenI
thsre is suffering because OF severe
weather. e-,,
In Northern Italy snow began to fall
Wednesday and did not cease till today.
The inhabitants Of that region are sui
ferlne acutely. such weather beng en-,
tirely unknown 10 them, and it is feared
numbers of people have perlshed IN the
storm At Mantua, Turin and Milan,
railway trains are much delayed on ac-
count Of the heavy snowfall.
Dispatches from Vienna say com
muication with points south OF that city
Is greatly impeded. and on all railways
centerlng there the movement OF TRAINS
is partially suspended.
The coasts of Belgium, Holland and
North Germany are blocked with ICE.
In the Scheldt river navigation IS nearly
at a standstill on account Office. Atthe
North German port Of CuShaven twen-
ty-nine steamships are ice-bound. Iee
pilots there are unable to communicate
with the vessels on account OF ice noes,
thus making the harbor inaccessible.
Several vessels were struck with I'M
mense masses of floating ice and sunk:
In every instance the crews were saved
from death only with great difficulty.
A number of steamers are drifting
helplessly between Oldendorf ana
Brunsbuttel. They have lost their
auchors and have been considerably
damaged by floating ice.
At Hamburg navigation is greatly I'M
peded by immense blocks Of ice, which
in the river. The board Of navigation
is making every offort to keep the river
open. and employing three OF the strong
est tugs that could be secured as ice
breakers. Many vessele have also been
damaged here by ice, but no serious ac-
cidents have as yet Teen reported.
At Antwerp ten thousand workmen
have been thrown out Of employment
owing to the unusually severe weather.
The misery caused among the poorer
classes in consequence is widespread
end intense.
The use of dynamite is about to be
tried to break the ice at Copenhagen,
where several steamships lie ice-bound.
Al many ports tugs are actively nsagec
in efforts to break the Ice, but not with
much effect. Oeresume is full OF ice
foes.
DISPATCHES from the German ports OF
Lubeck, Stettln and Swlnemunde all tell
of the inaccessibility of their harbors on
account of ice, and say that navigation
has ceased, that there is much snow and
that there is no open water visible.
In Berlin the temperature Is at 10 de-
erees Fahrenheit. Harz railway is
snowblocked, and the mails usually con.
veyed by its trains are now transported
in sleigh..
Al Bavaria is covered with snow, and
in the country between the Danube and
Alps snow is eighteen inches deep. In
certain localities along the Rhine snow
drifts are piled IN some spots seventeen
feet high, threatening inundations when
they thaw.
a telegram from Madrid report.
heavy snowfalls in Spain, and says that
communication with all the provinces
of Spain is difficult. 1t also reports TIE
prevalence of intensely cold weather II
Valencia, where the orange groves have
been swept BY storm, entailing heavy
losses.
At Marseilles the hospitals are fllet
with sufferers from various affection:
caused by cold weather. More sno0
has fallen today in Marsellles. Th'
dock laborers there have lit. along quays
great fires, at which to warm thenlselve:
during work hours.
Violent storms, accompanied by hal
and snow and extending a long distance
inland, are reported from Alciers. Th