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Show S'VGi:e in EcnJl at rt'up-Se? rt'up-Se? !uiiiec Snclsesol Bee i I'crJiu. Be ui. in", Jan. 10. -Reports from all parts shows the thermometer touched IS degrees below zero Fahrenheit, but that the cold is bearable in the absence -nraH i t.-vAz ajiM"r7"4 ltts-.pope ot wnul. ine ice here is eighteen inches inch-es thick. The sea between Stralsund and It ii gd n, live miles in width, is alive with skaters, and sleighs. Ponds are frozen to the bottom. Twenty-one head of deei in the roval forest at Ben-rath Ben-rath died. In Holland and Belgium the severity of the snow fall put a stop to railway and street car travel. Thousands of men are engaged in clearing the roads. On the coast of Holland the sea is frozen a great distance. The tanks ot ice on the shore are of extreme beauty. beau-ty. Only the harbors of Rotterdam and 1- lashing are accessible to vessels. ...... i (,1V..-, , , t inc ueain ot two persons from cold. The Italian livers are encumbered with ice. Tne roof of a school for boys at Sandemar-tio Sandemar-tio gave way beneath the burden of snow and ice, and the whole mass went crushing into th. sclie.-i om below. Twenty-two nupiis w.. injured. in-jured. On the frontier near Geneva a man was lund frozen to death. Several vessels haye been wrecked in the Bav oi Bhscay, and a number of lives lost. Ihe gales throughout Europe are the severest in years. Several steamers in the ice-blocked ' liver .Litte lost their propeliors by dashing dash-ing against' the ice-li-H-s. A number ot vessels parted their anchor-chains and are drifting helplessly in the stream: The strongest tugs cannot leave the harbor of Cuxhaven on account ac-count of the ice. Citizens are assisting the military to blast the ice with melinite. Pa ins. Jan. 10-haturdnv aad jester- j day tne most intense cold of the winter Was exr.r: ipiw1,1 1 1,,... ,.,,!,,.... r- lesterday an aged man was found irozen to death in his lodgings in this eity The thermometer yesterday touched seven degrees above zero Fahrenheit, at Moscow y, at Toulouse Tou-louse and 6 atfJGrenoble. ' The wefis are frozen at Peppignan, w.:cre a man has been found frozen to death in the street. A woman was loinid Irozen to death in bed at Spigual wiiere the thermometer indicates 4 below zero. Slight snow falls are reported re-ported from the Riviera. Paris, Jan." V.). The municipal authorities au-thorities to-night lighted hundreds of hies in the streets of the citv and larne numbers of wretchedly poor persons crowded around them to obtain come relief from the intense cold which prevails. Every elloit is being made to iciieve the great distress aud the Palace de Beaux Arts has been converted con-verted into a night shelter for the h-miftless and is provided with a soup kitchen. Municipal buildings elsewhere else-where are also used for similar purposes. |