FROZEN TO DEATH.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 766, 31 December 1908, Page 2

FROZEN TO DEATH.

ureat snowstorms at home. trafficTblogked. death-djjtaling colx>. Ijui uuowbiv iKLteBAfu — uofyaieax.] I.FBK FBBdM ISBOWATION.J London, Dec. 30. Three inches of snow stopped all horse omnibus traffic in London. Commerce, traffic, and shipping are almost at a standstill. Rubber-tyred motor omnibuses are proving extremely useful. About 20,000 unemployed are engaged, but officials state that it will take a week to remove the snow whiotx .has already fallen. , ■ ■ .Exceptionally severe snowstorms have occurred in the provinces,'dislocating the railway service, snowing up trains, burying flocks of sheep, ~?j and causing a general-, stoppage of jp work. . ' '""■">* r v~~^ Among the incidents were several frozen to death. . - . ■'■■.. (Received Deoeinber 31, 8.25 a.m.) London, December 30. A record of 24 degrees of frost was registered in Essex. (Scores of deaths have been oayaed by exposure in< iimgland during the snowstorms.