The Republican journal., 1901-11-14
BLACK FoGs IN LONDON.
Bubonic Plague in Glasgow and Liverpoo


The Belfast party made their visit to
England and Scotland in good time.
Since their return the hotel at which
they stopped in Glasgow, the Central
Station Hotel, the newest, largest and
finest hostelry in that city, has been
closed to the public because of the
bubonic plague. There were four cases
in the hotel, and one has proved fatal
The two hundred employees of the hotel
are confined in the building. Cases of
the plague are also reported in Liver
pool, while in London the small pox is
prevalent. A London despatch of Nov.
I'd, says: THE cases are not numerous
at present, but they are distributed over
every London district and are virulent
with an abnormally high mortality -
The despatch says further: ''It is recog-
nized in court circles that if the disease
is not stamped out before spring, the
festivities, as far as the attendance of
visitors is concerned, are destined to be
failure in any event, and that the
London tradesmen and hotel keepers
will be pretty well ruined after their
previous losses due to the war and
Queen Victoria's DEATH"
We were assured while IN London
that, although we experienced some fog
and little rain, we were exceptionally
fortunate so far as the weather was
concerned, and from what we had read
of London fog we had no doubts on
that point Since our return home Lon
don has experienced two of these fogs,
and after reading the following cable
dispatches we think that our readers
will agree that the fogs on this side of
the Atlantic are, in comparison, as blue
sky to a thunder cloud:
IoNDoN. Oct. 26. West and Central
London were enyeloped tonight in a
black fog. which plunged the entire
fashionable part of the city into i'm
penetrable darkness.
The fog found its way into theatres
aud music halls until, in many cases,
the stage was scarcely visible.
cabs took refuge under the lights of
public houses, refusing to move, and
scores of busses We're abandoned around
important landmarks, their drivers not
daring to proceed.
The scenes about the emptying thea
tres We're chaotic, the cries of the con-
fused and helpless people only adding to
the confusion. Link boys ran about
trying to lead fashionable equipages
out of danger giving London a me-
dieval appearance.
Many accidents have already been re-
ported from tie Charing Cross and other
hospitals
LONDON. Nov. /, 1901. \ fog such
as Great Britain had not experienced
for years enveloped London and half of
the United Kingdom to-day. blockading
slipping, deranging railways and throw
ing business in London, Birmingham
and other provincial cities into confu-
sion
So dense was it that a walk into the
streets was an adventure. The fog de-
scended upon the metropolis and the
suburbs so thickly that between 4 and )
2. NJ. the principal avenues of traffic re-
sembled the steam room of a Turkish
bath
Hundreds Of thousands Of London's
to grope their way to the railroad sta
tons The few who succeeded found
the trains all stalled.
Around Trafalgar square and the
Houses of Parliament scenes unparal-
leled for years We're witnessed. Hun
dreds of omnibuseS, cabs, carts, and
wagons formed an ineXtricable and i'm
movable mass. The mounted police, in
trying to clear away the jam, got lost
themselves. Many vehicles were in col
lision. The drivers, not knowing where
they We're, stood at the heads of their
horses. patiently waiting the lifting of
the premature darkness.
Lanterns were at a premium. News
boys transformed their papers into tenn
porary torches. Highwaymen pursued
their vocation. Casualties were fire.
Quent, and even hardened Londoners
freely expressed dread of the contin-
alton of such fog, which to-day reached
a climax
If the fog had not lifted somewhat
toward night, London would have been
so congested that its housing resources,
commodious as they are, would have
been taxed beyond their limits by the
forced accommodation of the fog bound
suburbanites.
Among children and old people the
deleterious effects of such continuous
and exceptional fog can scarcely be es-
timated.
Several theatres were obliged to close
for the evening on account of the fog.
In addition to the outrage at the Ken
nington branch of the London x South
western Bank, which occurred at 4 P.
NJ, when the fog was densest, several
small street robberies have been report
ed, many victims being stunned by sand
bags.
Two express trains had narrow es-
capeS flom serious collision.
LONDON, Nov. I. The mortality rate
in London has risen seriously since the
city has been enveloped in fog. Numer-
Gus bodies are at the morgue unidenti-
fed. Sixteen laborers are missing from
the docks and many bodies have been
found in the water.
Banquet to President Harris.