TERRIBLE WEATHER.
BLIZZARD IN CANADA.
SNOW STORMS IN ENGLAND AND ON THE CONTINENT.
VESSEL LOST.
FATAL AVALANCHES IN
SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA.
Received February 5, 9.7 a.m.
London, February 4. A terrible blizzard was experienced over Canada.
There was sixty hours' snow, and roads and railways are blocked. Food is scarce in Montreal.
A French barque foundered off Ushant, and twenty- one persons were drowned.
It is feared that fifty persons have been drowned on the British coast.
The biggest snowfall for a quarter of a century is recorded in Venice.
Trains in Switzerland and Spain are snow bound.
There were fatal avalanohes in Switzerland and Austria,
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7380, 5 February 1902, Page 2
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106TERRIBLE WEATHER. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7380, 5 February 1902, Page 2
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