People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1894 — A HARD WINTER. [ARTICLE]

A HARD WINTER.

Much Suffering and Many Persona Frozen to Death in .Europa. Paris, Jan. 6.—The weather is becoming colder. The river Seine is covered with thick ice. The railway trains arriving in the city are hours behind time, the delay being caused by the water freezing in the feed-pipes of the engine. Many deaths have been caused by the extremely cold weather. A number of old and poor people have been frozen U> death in their miserable lodgings. Others, despairing of finding other relief frertn their sufferings, have killed themselves and several destitute persons have been picked up lifeless in the streets. An old couple occupying a flat in the Boulevard Clichy were found dead in one of their rooms. They had ignited a brazier of charcoal and the fumes had killed them. Many of the suicides have used this means of killing themselves. In Toulon it grows colder. In Parigueux, among the mildest of winter resorts, everything is snowed up. Heavy snowstorms are reported from Corsica. In Antwerp the docks are incumbered with ice and it is feared many vessels will be caught fast. London, Jan. 6. —A blizzard prevails almost everywhere in England. In London the mercury stands at 24 and shows no signs of rising. At Doking, near which place the duchess of Marlborough has leased an estate, and in the vicinity of the town there is good sleighing. There is also plenty of snow in all southern counties. Dispatches from North sea and Baltic ports report a furious storm is raging. The indications are that the whole of northern Europe is affected. A large fleet of vessels is lying weather-bound at the mouth of the Thames. Berlin, Jan. 6. —At 2 o’clock a. m. the thermometer registered 7 degrees above zero, Fahrenheit. In the surrounding country it is> hardly above zero. In Munich it is 4 degrees below zero. In Breslau and Chemnitz 3 degrees below. Four persons have been found'frozen to death in Berlin. Many deaths from the cold have occurred elsewhere. The public and private refuges in Berlin are overcrowded. The number of applicants exceeds by hundreds the number of beds. Those without beds are glad to lie in the straw. The electric lights in Nuremberg are out, as the river, which provides- the generating power, is frozen. There is no snow in most parts of the empire and the crops will suffer severely. Emperor Francis Joseph and- his suite returned from Murzsteg, where the cold was so intense (4 degrees below zero) they were compelled' to give up their shooting expedition. Vienna, Jan, 6.—The weather in Austria and; Hungary is bitterly cold. In the city Wednesday night the mercury registered 18 degrees below freezing point. The suffering among the poor is terrible. The Danube is frozen over from Vienna to Balgrade, Servia. At Trieste the cold is intensified by a hurricane that in blowing from the north. So fierce is the wind vessels are unable to leave or enter the port. Traffic of all kinds is stopped and the streets are almost deserted. The tradesmen, seeing no prospecl of doing business in such weather have put the shutters upon thei:> store windows and given th<> clerks a holiday. The theaters werti closed Wednesday night owing to the cold and it is probable they will not open until the weather moderates. The police returns show fifteen persons have been injured. The cold is growing more intense. Many persons have been frozen to death. The absence of snow deprives the poor of one of the usual sources of iselief. The wind raises a choking dust. Madrid, Jan. ft.—The thermometer registers 5 degrees below zero, Centigrade, here. Elsewhere it is 12 degrees below zero. Many persons have been frozen to death- in the provinces of Burgos and Asturias. Heavy snowstorms are reported throughout the north of Sprin.