Tern tile Blizzard in Russia.
SIX TRAINS SNOWBOUND. DREADFUL SUFFERINGS OF PASSENGERS. A HUNDRED FATALITIES. Telegraph. Press Association. Copyright. St. Petersburg, Jan. 14. A terjible blizard raged last week in South Russia. Six trains with five thousand pas sengers became snowbound at Razdyelnaia, and were nearly starved. After digging for three days a thousand soldiers from Keiff and Odessa succeeded in enabling two of the trains with two thousand passengers to proceed. After eighteen hours tha stock of train firewood became exhausted, and a perfect pandemonium raged, and tbe sufferings were terrible. Sixty passengers, headed by Count Kapmst, started afoot and reached a station, opening up communications with Odessa. The Government at once despatched sledges Ijk with food. Many passengers were delirious and frostbitten. It is feared that over a hundred succumbed. The storm is abating Eighteen thousand soldiers are still bard at work. The fate of the rest, of the trains at Razdyelnaia is unknown.
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Feilding Star, Volume XXII, Issue 165, 15 January 1901, Page 2
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