FRIGHTFUL EXPERIENCES
TRAINS IMPRISONED BY SNOW. STARVING AND FROST-BITTEN PASSENGERS. ' ST. PETERSBURG, January It. A terrible blizzard raged for a week in the south of Russia. Six trains containing five thousand passengers were snowbound at Rasdelnaya. about fifty miles from Odessa. After digging for three days, a thousand soldiers from Kieff and Odessa succeeded in enabling two of the trains, conveying two thousand passengers, to proceed. After eighteen hours the stock < f fivewood on the trains became exhausted, and a perfect pandemonium raged. The sufferings of the passengers were terrible. Sixty of them, beaded by Count Kapnist, started on foot, and reached a railway station, opening up communication with Odessa. The Governor of the town at once despatched sledges with food. Many of the passengers were delirious and frost-bitten. It is feared that- over a hundred have succumbed. The storm is abating,, and eighteen thousand soldiers are still hard at work. Tlree fate of the rest, of the trains at Rasdelnaya is unknown.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1507, 17 January 1901, Page 31
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