FROZEN EUROPE

Grey River Argus, 14 February 1929, Page 5

FROZEN EUROPE

4 ' FORTY-FIVE BELOW ZERO Worst Frost of Modern Times. £AustraJian & N.Z. Cable Aasu.) LONDO2\, H'bruaiy 12. Messages from all paws of Europt disclose the terrible - severity of the weather. Trieste had a nincty-mile fi» ezing hurricane as the result of which six hundred persons werp injured. An avalanche at Innsbruck buried five smugglers. tciqperatiu'e in parts of Rou niania is forty-five bch(w zero. Whop families have been frozen to death. Portions of the-Thames estuary afe d. Ships are arriving at tin Thames wi h lagging completely *«‘aied in ice, somutimes inches thick. Remarkably low temperatures are experienced ranging from fifteen degrees in central London, the lowest since 1909, when it was fourteen . The f recast is that the worst is yet to jflke in Ini gland, which is threaten <1 the greatest frost in modern times. Thi-ro is no sign of a break in the Arctic weather. Intense cold is ac- • •ntuated by snowstorms and heavy gales throughout Britain.) The Scotch express on the Midland railway ran a goods train at Alfredton (Derbyshire). The engine WM overturned. a®d four parcel vans derailed, killing tU i driver, a fireman •nd a passenger- The carriages kept to the lines and fortunately ther© was no fire.

German Tragedies. DUE TO RECORD FROST. (Received February 13 at 8.40 p.m.) BERLIN. February 12. The intense cold there has been responsible for. two disasters at Stutt gnrt. An express train was forced to slow down owing to the freezing of its radiator. The driver of a following express train did not see the signals, owing to the frost-covered windows, and crashed into the Stuttgart train. Three were killed and seventeen were injured. An attempt to thaw some frozen cal ebsm carbide in an acetylene gas far 'WL at Bremen led to an explosion three were killed and twenty were injured seriously. The who!" factory was demolished. The Rhine, the Mose] and the Ruhr Rivers are frozen for considerable distances. Frankfurt city has experienced it" lowest temperature for a century. One war-blinded man was found frozen to death at Duisberg. with his dog keep ing watch beside his body, and not allowing anyone, to approach. MANY MORE GYPSIES DIE. WARSAW, February 13. Frost guards near Lublin found an entire Gypsy band of thirty-four men women and children frozen to death. BULGARIAN NOVELTY. SOFIA, February 12. Varna and Burgas are icebound. People are skating along the coast for the first time since 1849.

FRANCE SUFFERS SEVERELY. . i jk> PARIS, February 12. y Twenty six degrees of frost has been recorded here. This is the low est, with three exceptions, for 55 years. The Prefect of Police is installing braziers in sheltered corners iu the principal s'reets. Thcr c arc many train delays, owing to the engine tubes freezing. Heavy r.iowfalls have occurred in many place, even at Marseilles and at Cannes. The famous Chartreuse Monastery, near GrenoblQ. has been snowed up, and isolated. Forty-eight degrees of frost are recorded at Belfort. AMSTERDAM, February 12. There is an .epidemic of fires throughout Holland, owing to cold freezing the water supplies. The fire brigade was called out fifty times yesterday in Antstcrdam alone. Thr well-known theatre, Flora, was burnt to the ground. The famous Town Hall at Lieden was burnt down priceless archives and numerous treasures being destroyed. The brigades are helpless owing to the freezing of the wat Jr. Three ” | other buildings were burned at Lieden ” where th* damage is [hundreds of thousands sterling.