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Show A SNOWBOUND ISLAND. A Terrible Snow Storm Blocks Traffioin ' Every Fart of England Storiei of Awful Suffering. TRAINS , STIOK IN THE DRIFTS The Passengers Frozen in the Unheated Oars Less of Life Along the Coast Mail Oar Lost. London-, March 10. The bli..ard in outh England continues, though the weather in London is milder. The railroads of Kent and Sussex are completely com-pletely blockaded. The neighboring country is covered deeply with snow. A hurricane which accompanied the biiow storm piled tho snow drifts on all sides stopping all trallio on Vhc railroad lines aud upon the country roads. Two trains of passengers in the midlands mid-lands were snowed np last night and the passengers were not rescued until this morning. The rescued people suffered suf-fered terribly from cold during tho night owing to the unheated condition of the cars. A train on the north Kent railroad bound for this city, was snowed up lust night and still remains iu the railroad cutting where it was stopped by the drift. A number of engines were sent to the scene but they have been unuble as yet to move the train. The Sherness mail car cannot be found. It was Inst somewhere nlong the Hue between this city aud Sherness. A party was sent out after the missing mail car, and rescued the engineer and the lost engine. He was found frozen still' iu tho snow. Two clergymen were snowed up in a carriage ou the Taversham road last night, and were rescued with diliiculty, after having suffered severely. Reports from the provinces show the blizzard prevailed from St. George's channel to tho North sea. One of the elfects of the severe storm has been the stoppage of the South Wales iron works. All road trallio is stopped aud trains were delayed. In Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire Hamp-shire and Gloucestershire there are snowdrifts everywhere, mauy feet deep, rendering Hold work impossible. In these counties the mail service is completely com-pletely stopped and fanners have suffered iiifiuense loss of cattle and sliucp. Another instnnce of a snow blockade of a train is upon a road familiar to Americans, who cross the channel to and from the continent. The passonger train which left Charing Cross railroad station at midnight for Nor-"falkeston Nor-"falkeston was caught in a huge snowdrift outside of Norfalkeston. The passengers were net rescued until this morning when many of them were severely ill owing to being almost frozen. The passengers had neither food nor light from the time they were imprisoned iu the snow bound cars. On the London Chatham and Dover railroad trains were delayed for hours. Maidstone, Sheerness and Sittingbourne are cut oil from communication with the surrounding country. In addition to damage done by the storm ilseif, the 'Thames has commenced to rise in a dangerously rapid manner, ami is already inundating the low lying districts bordering the river from Kick-moil Kick-moil down. The green groccs of this city and elsewhere are naturally sull'ering from the dearth of vegetables, etc. All wagons coming in from the country were snowed up along the roads and a scarceness and a raise in price of such provisions may be looked for during the next day or so. Work ou the docks in and about London is partially suspended sus-pended owing to the mass of snow accumulated ac-cumulated about them. In South Devonshire the snow storm continued in violence. Railroads are blockaded and a mail train bound from Southampton for London are snowed up. Towns on tho channel islands are also cut off by the snow from all communication com-munication with each other. At Lydd, a small seaport town of Kent, while the coastguard life boat was going to tho rescue of the crew of an endangered vessel, the life boat capsized cap-sized and several of its oocnpanLs were drowned. Near Hastings. Sussex county, five fishing smacks were wrecked and three fishermen drowned. The others barely escaped. At one period of tho storm it was said that the mail boat plying between be-tween Dover and Calais and on her way to the latter port had foundered. The report turned out to be incorrect, the mail boat having reached Calais in safety, but iu n terribly battered condition. condi-tion. In addition to the blockaded trains already referred to, several are snowed up at different places along the various roads, in all cases the passengers have suffered severely. Several persons are reported missing and it is believed have found death in tho snow drifts while endeavoring to reach places of shelter. This afternoon ouly meagre telegrams have been received" from various parts of England and Wales. The lines, according ac-cording to these dispatches, are generally gener-ally blocked. A dispatch from Harwich brings the information that the yacht Saphire owned hy Maclarr of Glasgow, was driven ashore there during a gale. MacLarr was washed overboard and drowned. Information received from Cardiff this afternoon is to the effecj that much clamago was done by the storms. A man was found frozen to death in Surrey. |