Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-13
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, February 13. Gypsies
peasants dwelling in thatched huts anc
other persons with inadequate shelter
against the Arctic frigidity of the colo
snap that has held Central Europe ano
the Balkans in it's grip for several days
are perishing in groups. Reports today
from various setions of tn afflicted dis
trict told of 85 Gypsies frozen to death
in their tents, families of 10 and Il
peasants perishing in unneated huts
and band of six Smugglers who sue
cumbed near Innsbruck, Austria.
The Gypsies were especially hard hit
band OF 81 perished near Ljubljana
in the Slovenian district of Jugoslayia
when their tents were swept away by a
gale that accompanied a heavy snow
storm. Thirty other Gypsies went to
sleep in tents at Uzhorod, CZechoSlo-
vakla, and never awakened At Janow,
near the Austrian-PoliSh frontier, 81
Gypsies were frozen to death in their
rickety caravans.
Family of Ten Die.
At Buzeu, Ruman.a, i2 peasants sue
cumbed to the cold, and another family
of 10 were found frozen to death in a
thatched hut near Campini, Rumania.
In famine-stricken Kishinev, IA persons
perished of cold.
Other parts of Rumania reported that
people had dropped dead in the streets,
Tire tragedy throughout BesSarabfa,
which Is experiencing a bad shortage
Of food. was further heightened today
hU frnch cY1n rx1rsa
bee trains from Bucharest.
The blighting cold is declared by
meteorological experts to be the most
severe in nearly 200 years. Tt has
kept freezing populations at bay in their
homes, many families spending their
entire time under bed coverings ex-
cept for the minutes required for Scant
meals. Peasants sleep with cattle and
pigs in order to derive warmth from the
bodies of the animals.
Furniture Burned.
In many towns and villages the peo-
pie are burning their furniture, ripping
up floors and chopping out doorWayS
between rooms to obtain fuel. Czecho-
slovakian railroad authorities are burn
ing petrol along the roadbed to keep
passenger and freight trains from freez-
ing to the rails.
Most of the ports on the Black Sea
have been reported as icebound, as is
Archangel Available icebreakers have
not been powerful enough to break the
10 feet of ice that locks the harbors
All Bulgarian and Rumanian wireless
stations are receiving continuous calls
for help from vessels which have been
unable to gain shelter.
Some boats have reported sighting
small icebergs, an unprecedented phe-
nomenon for the Black Sea.
36 Hours of Snowfall.
Zagreb, the capital of Crotia. has eX-
perienced 36 hours of snowfall and al
street car and railroad service there
is paralyzed.
Budapest, capital of Hungary has re-
ported 100000 cases of influenza, lone
queues forming outside of drug stores
made up of seekers after aspirin ane
quinine Hospitals have received 34(
cases of frostbite within 48 hours ant
the city government has distributed fre'
coal to $4,000 poor families.
Soup kitchens have been opened II
Vienna and President Miklas has ap
| pealed to Austrian bakers to supply fre'
bread to these food centers. Mos
Balkan capitals are in similar straits
the prices of food having risen from II
to IS per cent.
WOLVES KILL 16 CHILDREN