Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1891-01-20
From ALI Quarters.
EUROPE'S COLD WEATHER
Much Intense Suffering in
All Countries.
Big BANK FAILURE IN THE West.
David Hill Nominated for
U. S. Senator.
A TRAIN WRECKED and ROBBED,
BOmbardment Of Valparaiso
Momentarily Expected.
EURoPE,s FRIGID WEATHER.

| EUROPEsS FR1GlD WEATHER.
| Great Suffering in France-Packs
| of Wolves Becoming Desperate
Through Hunger-SnOw and Ice
mt A1gierS-A Woman Found Frog
en- to Death In an English Railroad
Car.
PARIS, Jan. 19-Dispatches from all parts
of France tell of great suffering caused by
the intense cold weather. The harbors of
Toulon and Laseyne are frozen over for
the first time on record. The olive crop
in the department of Gard is fast being
ruined. Whole communities in the neigh
borhood of Perpignan, in the Pyrenees,
are cut off from communication with the
rest of the world and way-farers in those
districts who had set out for mountain
villages have been found frozen to death.
The Algiers' mail steamer arrived at Port
Vendres on the Mediterranean to-day
covered from stem to stern with ice and
snow. A dispatch from Saragossa, in
Spain, reports that the mercury there is at
IA degrees F. and that snow is falling.
The Seine at it's confluence with the Disc
is damned with packed ice ten feet high
At Mines wine has frozen in cellars A
large number of vessels are ice bound at
Bordeaux and many steamers, to avoid be-
ing frozen in, have gone down the river to
anchor in the Verden roads.
Packs of wolves and numerous wild
bears are invading isolated districts in
France. The unusually large fall of snow
and the terrible severity Of the weather
have cut off their means of subsistence and
tho oninoo1c hov, hoaoyo 4 10 4,
hunger and fearlessly prowl about the
houses to the great CONSERVATION of the
people. Tho same state of affairs is said
to exist in Spain, and from Cadiz come re-
ports of wolves being killed in the streets
of the suburbs.
Advices have been received from Algiers
to the effect that the country is covered
with snow. A snow storm is raging in
Tunis and the fall of snow is already SO
heavy that traffic has been stopped.
The chamber of deputies has appropriate
1900, 900 f. for the relief of sufferers from
the effects of the severe winter. It is the
intention of the chamber later on to appro-
pirate sum of money for the relief of
sufferers in the country districts.
LONDON, Jan: 19.-The bitter cold
weather from which people are suffering
here may be imagined when it is stated
that lady was found to-day frozen to
death in a railroad carriage at one of the
stations in this city. This fact will also
give the American public some idea of the
comfort of an English carriage. Heavy ice
has blocked the docks at Newport, in Mon
mouthshire, and it is impossible for YES
sells to.either enter or leave the docks. A
number of vessels that are loaded and
ready to proceed to sea are compelled to
await the breaking up of the ice before
sailing.
HAHBuRa, Jan. ia dispatch from
Kiel says that the Baltic sea, so far as it
can be seen from the Buelk lighthouse, is
covered with ice. The channel is separat-
ing the island of Fehmarn from the Hol-
stein shore is frozen over. The Lake of
Constance is so covered with ice that navi-
cation upon it has been suspended.
VIENNA, JAN, 18.-Nearly all the roads
and railroads throughout Austria are more
or less blocked with snow, causing con-
siderable delay in passenger and freight
traffic everywhere. The mails are also
much delayed. In addition a number Of
country towns are completed isolated and
are likely to remain SO for some time to
come These towns are suffering for food
and fuel. While the frozen boiler tubes of
a locomotive were being thawed by burn
ing torches beneath them at Gratz the
wheels of the engine froze fast to the rails
and hours passed before the engine was
was moved from the spot.
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 and in the warmth afforded
by the blaze endeavored to obtain some re-
lief from the intense cold which prevailed.
Every effort is being made to relieve the
great distress which exists and to this end
the Palais des Beaux Arts has been con-
verted into night shelter for the home
less and is provided with soup kitchen
and large number of straw mattresses.
The machine gallery in the exhibi
ton buildings is used as day shelter.
Municipal buildings elsewhere in the
city airs also used for similar purpose
and the protection which they afford is
eagerly taken advantage of by a large num-
Der of the suffering people. The water
supply in Versailles has become very
scarce, owing to the freezing weather, and
| vendors of water are meeting with brisk
demand at four pence gallon. A slight
rise in the mercury was reported in France
and Germany to-day, but the temperature
| is still below the freezing point in both
countries. An epidemic of disease re-
sembling influenza has broken out in Ber-
| lin. The persons affected have a tendency
| toward Inflammation of the bowels.