The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-02-04
Huge Wave Hurls Twenty Of
Wrecked Freiqhter's Crew
Into caIe.lashed Ocean
LANDSLIDE BURlES eleven
Four Tunnel Workmen Frozen
to Death; Germany Has the
Coolest Winter in History

London, Feb. 4-(R-At least -
persons met death In Europe over q
weekend Of unprecedented storm
and cold conditions, the Balkan
States and Turkey being particularly
heavy sufferers.
Shipping everywhere was deranged
In the Black Sea where num-
erous minor wrecks were reported.
The most serious disaster was off
the coast OF Portugal where the Ger
man freighter Deister foundered yes
terday after being driven on the rocks
during Z violent gale. The crew OF
q assembled on the topmost deck. but
. huge wave hurled 20 Of them into
the sea. The remaining six went
down with their vessel.
The second largest disaster was In
the Russian Turkestan town Of Alma
Aata where . landslide on Saturday
swept II persons to their deaths. It
was in this town that Leon Trotzky.
former leader Of the red army, was
IN exile for many months.
Four workmen sent to clear the
tracks Of the simplon express IN
Thracean Turkey were frozen to
death and the work Of digging out
the train which has been blocked by
snow for three days was called off.
Three persons were frozen to death
In Budapest and many others were
suffering from exposure. It was the
coolest day In 80 years. the tempera-
tilre dropping to 20 below zero cent?
grade n soma places Of Hungary.
"a Railway Traffic Stops
p1patNhoU frotn atberiA said the
temposat1are IA Bulgaria ila some sec
tions qru3ped to u degrees below zero
centigtade. All railway traffic was
suspopded between Varna and Sofia
and various continental trains were
subject to long delays. A fierce gale
WAS blowing over the Black Sea and
huge waves were sweeping the coast.
:. Messages from Transylvania said
wolves. driven from
their haunts In the snow buried
woods and hills. had invaded towns
and villages.
In tn suburb Of Cluj . wealthy
farmer named Petro 6everianu was
reported to have been attacked BY Sc
wolves while driving to town with .
horse and Sleigh. The horses were de-
voured while severianu took refuge
up telegraph pole. Villagers drove
the attackers off. Severianu Wa res
cued but doctors found him almost
frozen 10 death and apparently In
sane from terror.
Germany ShiveEs
Germany also was suffering from
unprecedented cold, the thermometer
dropping to ~ degrees below zero
centigrade, the lowest within many
decades, In Berlin. Warmer temper
ature WAS reported from the usually
cold regions Of east and west Prussia
where barely freezing weather wa
reported.
Temperatures far below freezing
still were reported from Munich,
Breslau. Hanover and 6tettin.
Dispatches from Hamburg state
that the yogth-Baltic Sea canal was
iceblocked and that traffic had been
suspended completely. Thirty steam
ers were ice bound at the entrance o1
tho canal.
Holland was experiencing the cold
est weather for Z February In many
years.
Ruhr Coal Stops
Il was reported from Rotterdam
that Ill shipping on tho lower Rhine
was suspended and no coal Was beina
transported from the Ruhr.
London groped through choking
1og, the worst one Of the winter and
. belt Of cold girded Europe and Asia.
Shipping along the China cost VA
bucking an leo barrier 30 miles out tc
sea and clear across Europe and Asia
there was Z cold wave which has not
been surpassed Tor Z generation.
! The third day Of the worst blixxart
In - years cut Constautinople COM
pletely OF from the world by land
ana 60. The soviet steamer Kransy
Flott, aboard which Leon TrotSky
former head Of the red army but nov
m exile, 4 believed TO b . passenger,
(oontiuued On page nine)