The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1893-01-14
EUROPE Is 5 ,OWBOUND.
WEATHER EXTREMELY SEVERE.
In France, Austria and Hungary the
Villages are Buried In Snow : Ses-
erai Lives Lost ut Sea- Capt.
Ferguson Defended by the
Cunard Line.

PABIs, Jan. 3.-Intense cold pre-
walls throughout France. The Seine
is icebound. Two old women were
found frozen to death this afternoon
In an attic IN the poor quarters. They
were clothed in rags, had no fire and
apparently had eaten nothing for the
last twentytour hours. In their bu-
reau drawer was found 10000 francs
III bank notes
Villages Completely Isolated.
I VIENNA, Jan. 3.-Violent snow
storms have prevailed throughou,
Austria and Hungary all day. All
kinds of traffic ave beer impeded and
scores of villages have been COM
| plvtely ISOLATED. The South Austrian
railway is imptssable almost its entire
| length. The EXPRESSES from Vienna
! tor Trieste are snowbound between
! stations, and the military have been
called upon to dig them out. Otner
liies are partially crippled. All the
imperial shooting parties in Styria
have been postponed indefinitely.
A dispatch from Trieste SAYS that
all traffic in that city have been stop
ped by the drifts. The theatres are
closed. Fiume also is snowbound and
an icy wind is piling up the diifis t.
the second story windows in streets
near the harbor.
IE this city the snow is piled ten or
tweive feet high between the roads
and sidewalks. No market men have
oeen able to come to town and there
is great dearth of all farm products.
A milk and butter famine has alread,
been proclaimed by the produce deal
els.
Met WITH HEAVY SEAS.
LISBON, Jan. 3.-Advices received
here from st. MichGls report the fol-
lowing vessels at that port on Dec.
n, in Il damaged condition The Bri-
tish steamer Amoris, Capt. Barclay,
from West Point, Va, Dec. i2, for
Liverpool, put into st. Michnls, after
most tempestuous voyage. Her
decks had been swept of everything
movable and her forepeak was full of
water. Her boats were swept away.
her deckhouse stove and her cabin
deck and matches damaged.
The British steamer North Gate had
a similar experience. She lost her
boats and everything movable about
deck. The heavy seas that boarded
her carried overheard two of her cyew.
No assistance could be rendered them
and they were drowned. Capt. Rams
dell died and was buried at sea. The
North Gate had considerable difficulty
in making port, her steering gear be-
Jig disabled.
The Italian bark Pellegra Madre,
Capt. Olivari, from Philadelphia, Dec.
5, for Naples, put into st. Michels
damaged and shorthanded. Two of
her crew fell from aloft while the bark
was in a seaway and drowned before
a boa. could be cleared away. The
bark's bnlwarks, stanchions aud rud-
der were damaged.
The Norwegian bark Solon, Capt. |
Peterson, from Old Harbor for Bow
ling. lost four of her crew on her pas
sage. Her rudder was damaged. On
Dec. 20, the German Arasalla, Capt.
Mass, from New York, Dec. II, for
Hamburg, put into st. Mich;h's with
her boats gone and bulwarks stove.
Her position was SO precarious at one
time that Il portion of her cargo was
jettisoned.