Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04
26 of German Crew Lose
Their Lives in Unprece-
dented Storm.
CONSTANTINOPLE CUT OFF
FROM WORLD BY BLIZZARD
Eleven Crushed in Landslide-Tem-
peratures Reaching 40 Below
Bring Extreme Suffering.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February AT least A
persons met death in Europe over a
week end of unprecedented storm and
cold conditions, the Balkan states and
Turkey being particularly heavy suf-
ferers.
Shipping was everywhere deranged
especially in the Black Sea, where nu-
merous minor wrecks were reported.
The most serious disaster was off the
coast Of Portugal, where the German
freighter Deister foundered yesterday
after being driven on the rocks during
violent gale. The crew of 26 assembled
on the topmost deck. but huge wave
hurled 20 of them into the sea. The
remaining 6 went down with their
vessel.
Landslide Kills Eleven.
The second largest disaster was in
the Russian Turkestan town of Alma
Aata, where a landslide on Saturday
swept II persons to their deaths. 1t
was in this town that Leon Trotsky,
former leader of the Red Army, was IN
exile for many months.
Four Workmen sent to clear the tracks
OF the Simplan 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 suf-
Ierlng from exposure. It was the cold
est oay IN 80 years. the temperature
dropping to 20 below zero centigrade
In some places of Hungary.
While London CROPPED through a
choking fog, Which was the worst one
OF the Winter, belt of bitter cold
wrapped itself around Europe and Asia.
shipping along the China coast was
oucklng an ice barrier 80 miles out tn
sea, and clear across Europe and Asia
tnere was cold wave which has not
oeen surpassed for generation.
COnstantinople Cut OFF.
The third day of the worst blizzard
IN Is years cut ConstantinopIe corn
pieteiy on from the world by land and
ssa. lhe SOVIET steamer Krasny Flott
aooard which Leon Trotsky, former
neaos OF The Red army, but now an
snAe, ts, peheved to be passenger, had
IaKen Fefuge near the entrance of the
Bosporus and was unable TO reach Con-
Stantinople. o
sea. The Soviet cattle steamer Omsk.
1.ooo tons, sank near the Irya Islands
Wnlie three other ships, the Turkish
AiSsar. the Russian Tolp and the
french Rhone were all aground
conditions in ConStantinople itself
were tragic. There was q serious bread
shortage because -four could not he
transported. The temperature was q
Deiow zero centigrade. Two-thirds of
the shops, all the schools and various
courts were closed as teachers and at
Ienoants were unable to reach the CITY
from the suburbs.
A number of houses collapsed beneath
neavy snowdriftS, and there were l6
| separate fires in the last % hours
wolves were reported to have made
tner appearance in the suburbs.
Suffering in Bulgaria.
Dispatches from Siberia said that
Bulgaria also was suffering from an un-
precedented cold wave, the temperature
IN some sections dropping to 20 degrees
Delow zero centigrade. The city of
Varna was plunged into pitch darkness
last night when electrical transformers
were damaged. All railway traffic was
suspended between Varna and Sofia and
various continental trains were subject
to long delays. A fierce gale was blow
ing over the Black Sea and huge waves
were sweeping the coast.
Messages from Cluj in Transatlantic
said that hunger wolves driven
from their hauntS in the snow-buried
woods and hills, had invaded towns and
villages. Entire populations formed
vigilance committees to drive off the
marauders.
In the suburb of Cluia wealthy
farmer named Petro Severianu was re-
ported to have been attacked by so
wolves while driving to town in horse
drawn sleigh. The two horses were
dragged down and devoured while
Severianu took refuge up a telegraph
pole. The mans hysterical cries brought
a group of villagers, who drove the at
tackers of. Severianu was rescued, but
doctors found him almost frozen to
death and apparently insane from
terror.
Germany Hard Hit.
Germany also was suffering from un-
precedented cold the thermometer drop
ping to "a degrees below zero Cent?
grade, the lowest within many decades.
in Berlin. Oddly enough warmer
temperature was reported from the
usually cold regions of East and West
Prussia, where barely freezing weather
was reported
During the past "a hours there was
some abatement of the extreme severity
| around Berlin, but temperatures far
below freezing still were reported from
Munich, Breslau, Hanover and Stettin.
The cold, dry weather, however, is
being hailed as of great importance in
reducing an influenza epidemic which
for the past few weeks has been steadily
declining.
Dispatches from Hamburg state that
the North-Baltic Sea Canal was ice
blocked and that traffic had been sus-
pended completely. Thirty steamers
were icebound at the entrance of the
canal
Holland was experiencing the coldeSt
weather for a February in many years
Because of drift ice on the Rhine and
Waal most boat bridges had been re-
moved and February service was sus-
pended, thus virtually isolating North
Holland from the south for all vehicular
traffic.
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