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Show : MOPlA-COLD. Many Persons Perish from Cold in France and Along the Mediterrcanlan. The Gale the rie-ceBt Experienced on the Continent in Many Yearn. THE HABB0ES LOOKED B7 ICE. The Sea on the Coast of Holland Frozen Out for a Great j Distance. j i The EiTMSof "Emmy Italia" Encurn- . ' fcered With Ice and Many . Deaths Reported. V . PONDS FROZEN TO THE BOTTOM. I Mil, of Old Ooean Tamed Into Ad J j I Kuormoua Skating Rnk and y m eielghlnf; Coure. r ' ' Bkrlin, Jan. 10. Reports from all Urts show that the thermometer t uched many degrees below zero (Fahrenheit) (Fah-renheit) but that tho cold is bearable In he absence of wind. Ice here Is 13 y.-- ...nehes thick. The sea between Stral eund and Kngen, five miles wide, is-alive is-alive with skaters and sleighs. The ponds are Frozen to th. Nottom. Twenty-one head of deer in the royal forest at Bcnrath died. In Holland and Belgium the severity of the snow fall put a stop to railway and street car travel. Thousands of men aro engaged in clearing the roads. Uu the coast of Holland the sea is frozen froz-en for a great distance. There are Jr" banks of ice on the shoro or Kttrain Ilea my. j j Only the harbors Rotterdam and I 1 i lushing are accessible to vessels. Advices from Naples report the death of two persons from cold. Tho Italian j rivers are encumbered with ico. The roof of a school for boys at Sandeinartio gave way beneath the burdens of snow and ice and the whole mass went crashing into the school room below. Twenty-two persons were injured. On the Frontier N.ar v Geneva a man was found frozen to (loath. Several vessels have been wrecked in the Bay of Biscay and a number of lives lost. The gales through- out Europe are the severest in years. Several steamers in the ice-blocked River Elbe lost their propellers by dashing againshe ice floes. A number num-ber of 'Vessels parted their anchor V, ehsins and drifted helplessly In the stream. -The strongest, tugs -cannot i loafs the harbor pf Cuxhaven on j,, ; ' , eeout otth oa, . i . : , The citizens aro assisting the military ' 40 Wast the Ice with melinite. - "-i Fakis, Jail. 19 Saturday and 'yes-terdty 'yes-terdty was tie most intensely cold of 1 I the ( winter t experienced throughout France. Yesterday an aged man was found frozen Jo death in his lodgings in this city. The thermometer y?sler-, V day touched seven degrees above fabrenhe.it iv,t Macon, nine here, twelve ' at Toulousevnnd five nt Grenoble. Well, are Froaen nt Perpignan, whero a man has been 1 found Jrozen to death in the street. A i woman was found frozen to death in oed at Spignal, where the thermometer Indicates 4 below zero. Slight snow falls are reported from the Uivera. |