Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1891-01-10 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

THE TERRIBLE ICE CATASTROPHE.  --Further particulars are at hand of the ice catastrophe at Buda-Pesth. On Saturday, it seems, a Royal Guardsman in his gorgeous scarlet uniform, tried to walk across the river, but broke through the ice. He got to the shore safely, but soon his uniform froze so hard that he had to be laid on a cart and taken to the hospital like a corpse. Latem in the day a yeung skater broke through the ice, but having been observed from the bridge, be was saved. This, says the Daily Noes Vienna correspondent should have been a warning, but the public clamoured to cross the river on the ice, so a path was swept across, hedged in with pine branches, and lit up with Chinese lanterns at dusk. All Sunday great crowds of people stood on the quays, and policemen were placed at either end of His crossing to prevent too many people from going or to the ice at once. An uninterrupted processior crossed the river all day, amid the shouts and laughter of spectators on the bridge and along the quays. As dusk set in, order could with difficulty be maintained. The people eager to cross, pressed forward; and a large group of persons went upor the ice a little below the crossing. A terrific crash was heard. Wild cries arose, and what seemed a hundred men, women, and children were struggling in the dark gap of water which had suddenly opened. Fortunately, not a hundred yards from the spot where the disaster happened the firemen of Buda were on guard, and they were immediately ready with ladders and ropes to pull out the drowning people. Had this not been the case, all must haw perished. The edges of the ice crumbled away undem the feet of the firemen, several of whom fell intc the river. They drew out 18 persons in all, and • carried them to the watch-house, where they wen wrapped in blankets and laid around a huge firt until they could be taken home or to the hospital. It is quite impossible to tell the number of the ims because the current is very rapid at the spot, anti many who sank must have been carried away. At first only very few persons were reported as missing, among them two children. It has since bet n ascertained that a merchant's daughters, thret y,sing sisters, and two apprentices are also missing. On Monday morning the father of a youth of 20 also reported that his son went to skate on the Danube and never returned; and a little girl of 8, who at first held on to her sister's hand, suddenly let go and floated under the ice. Time gap caused by the catastrophe is about 20 yards square, and on Monday was slightly frozen over.  lho Gelman Emperor has sent his aide-de-camp, Major von liiilsen, to Constantinople to present the Sultan with a magnificent sword in recognition of the assistance accorded to the German ironclad Frederick Charles by Turkish authorities.  A serious accident has occurred at Genoa on board an Italian man-of-war. While a division of the squadron in the harbour was getting up steam preparatory to starting, the stoke-hole of the steel cruiser, Vesuvio, was suddenly flooded with boiling water and steam owing to the bursting of the fcedpipe of the boiler. One man was killed on the spot, while two engineers and five stokers were seriously scalded.  Two brothers, Victor and Camlie del Greco, have been condemned by a Paris tribunal to 10 years' penal servitude for the murder of Esposito Dolorosa. Both the victim and the assassins were Italians. The crime created considerable sensation when it was committed in August. Doloroso had seduced the sister of the Del Greco brothers, who demandea that Doloroso should marry the young woman. On receivi og a refusal Doloroso was shot dead in the presence of the young woman and her father.  demanded