WINTRY WEATHER STILL PREVAILS IN EUROPE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 5

WINTRY WEATHER STILL PREVAILS IN EUROPE

INTENSE COLD CAUSES RAILWAY DISASTER EXPLOSION IN CAS FACTORY. .. ! MANY FROZEN TO DEATH. WARSAW, February 13. The Forest Guards near Lublin found an entire gypsy band of 34 men, women and children, frozen to death, A Berlin message states that the intense cold was responsible for two disasters. The B'tutfcgart express was!forced to slow down owing to the freezing of the radiator. The driver of the. following express did not see the signals owing to the frost-cover-ed windows, and crashed into the Stuttghrt train. Three wore killed and 17 injured.

jA.il attempt to thaw the frozen calcium carbide in an acetylene gas factory at Bremen led to an explosion in which three were-killed’ ami 20 seriously injured. The whole factory was demolished. ;PI VERS FROZEN OVER. The Rhine, Mosel and Ruhr rivers are frozen for considerable distances. Frankfurt experienced its lowest, temperature tor a century.

, : A war-blinded man was found frozen) to death at Duisberg, his d<>ts keeping w.atch beside lus body and not allowing anyone to approach. Varna’ and Burgas aro icebound. The eppoTe are skating along the coast for the first time since 1849.

lu Paris 26 degrees of frost .was recorded, the lowest temperature, with- three©exceptions, for 45 years. The -Prefect of Polio© is installing braziers in sheltered corners of the principal streets. There ar© many trsi.n delays ©wing to th© engine tuhe 9 freezing. Heavy snowfalls occurred in many places, even at Marseilles. and Cannes., The famous Chartreuse monastery, near Grenoble,j is snowed up and isolated. Forty-chght degrees of was recorded at Belfort.